50 Fun Farm Activities

OVER 50 FAMILY FUN & ACTIVITIES

There are over 50 Free things to do with your family when you visit Prairie Gardens & Adventure Farm!  Plan to make a day of it!  Relax, unwind and spend some fabulous family time together at the farm.

Kids Fun Zone

Bring the little ones for a fun afternoon of outdoor activity and good ole’ fashioned farm fun! Admission Applies. Planning to come more than twice this summer? Check our Festival Six Pack.

Great Prairie Corn Maze

World’s largest interactive game! Pit your wits to solve the riddle of this 5km long Edmonton maze.

Pirate’s Cove Kids Zone

A special area just for our smaller guests, Pirate’s Cove offers a shady area with play structures, slides, & an old fashioned tree swing!

Kids Corn Maze

A little overwhelmed by the sheer size of the giant corn maze? Just for kids – a 10 minute maze –within the giant maze (go to the right for the entrance!

Minotaur Kidz Maze

Just past the petting farm, you’ll find a 15 minute maze along the edge of the pond! You can’t get lost for too long!

What is a corn maze and when is it open?

Learn more about our corn maze.

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Kids Petting Farm

Come meet and feed the Pygmy Goats and other farm animals in our Petting Farm.

Pirate’s Cove Kids Zone

A special area just for our smaller guests, Pirate’s Cove offers a shady area with play structures, slides, & an old fashioned tree swing!

Kids Corn Maze

A little overwhelmed by the sheer size of the giant corn maze? Just for kids – a 10 minute maze –within the giant maze (go to the right for the entrance!

Minotaur Kidz Maze

Just past the petting farm, you’ll find a 15 minute maze along the edge of the pond! You can’t get lost for too long!

Great Prairie Corn Maze

World’s largest interactive game! Pit your wits to solve the riddle of this 5km long Edmonton maze.

Outpost General Store

There’s tons of surprises, a miniature train, and some local history and local artisans wares to explore and buy.

Scarecrow Band

An animatronic band that strums unusual farm instruments all year!

Snowball Fort

Join in for a ‘snowball’ fight anytime of year!

Goat Walk

Look up! There’s Goats on the Roof! Snap a photo! It’s not every day you see this!

Tractor & Wagon Ride

Free old fashioned transportation around the farm back and forth to the Giant Corn Maze!

Haunted Farm House

If you dare! Creep in the door and scream through the Haunted House – the creaks and groans are real!

Straw-bale Mazes

These 5 minute mazes are fun for the Lil’ ones! Or try it blindfolded for extra challenge!

Flashlight Maze Adventures

It’s way more fun in the dark! Sizzle your senses and pit your wits to solve the Great Prairie Corn Maze with a flashlight!

Chick & Cluck Ville

A favourite here at Prairie Gardens & Adventure Farm! Watch the hens and chicks dash about their paddock!

Bunnyville

It’s a miniature community rabbit warren.

Basil the Parrot

Come say hello to the most talkative bird on the farm! Some of his favs: Hello, how are you, Basil? Go Away! Love Me? Dinner!

Peacock Aviary

Come visit our family of peacocks. Mr. and Mrs. Peabody and their children are spectacular!

Bunny Hutches

Peek into the bunny hutches – there are lots of baby bunnies!

Duck Ponds

Honk! If you love me meet the new families on the pond.

Sheep Paddocks

Baa! Baa! Kids will love the baby lambs at Easter, and Ewe will love feeding the sheep. Baa! Baa!

Fresh Country Sunshine

Feel the sunshine on your shoulders and breathe some fresh country air, take a stroll,It’s not about ‘screen time’ on the farm!

Where’s Waldo?

Find the Squirrels -When you least expect it! Catch a photo with our resident squirrels as they hop from branch to branch!

Garden Centre

Stroll through the greenhouses to enjoy the unique & beautiful container gardens, & herb planters. In June, the hummingbirds a buzz in for blossom nectar.

Pumpkin Cannon

Supports a great cause and is likely your families one & only chance to shoot a pumpkin at a pirate ship! (Really!) Small fee.

Prospector’s Nook

Come learn about the cool fossils & minerals you’ll find at the Lost Lemon Mine Gem Sluice.

Lost Lemon Gem Mine

Just like in the Klondike days, come pan for real gems and fools gold!  Small fee.

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Face Painting

Check in at the Outpost General Store for a free mini-face painting!  Or go for a full face – for a small fee.

Old Thyme Photo Parlour

Dress up for a free U-Take Family Photo & Enter our Photo contest for a Seasons Family Pass!

Kid’s Emporium

You’ll find games, toys, and treats to buy!

Boo’n Accord Train Station

Learn about the history of Bon Accord while you enjoy a festival treat!

Bale Mountain

Come climbing – you never know when you’re making a memory!

Blossoms & Fall Colors

Enjoy the fragrance of spring blossoms, summer flower beds and brilliance of fall leaves around the farm.

Bale Jump

Oh, to be a kid again!

Athabasca Landing Trail and Nature Walk

Take a stroll through the natural parkland forest trail along our property. In 1886, this was part of the trail the klondike gold rush traveled!

Poplar Tree Play Zone

Swing, slide, climb and explore this trail in the shade of the poplar trees along the maze field

Market Garden

Come learn about how food grows as you stroll through the gardens!  Or pay as you pick for U-Pick peas, strawberries and potatoes during the summer.

Crab Apple Trail

Blossoms in the spring, shady trail in the summer, sample a sweet rescue crab or a pucker-power Siberian crab apple in the fall.

Peter’s Pumpkin

I’m bigger than you. Also from the Storyland Valley Zoo!

Corn Cannon

Lend a ear – and peel a cob!  Way too much fun to shoot corn cobs! Small Fee.

Who’s Bones?

Become a CSI to investigate. Is it dinosaur, animal, rock, petrified wood? Try your hand at this skill!

Rubber Duck Races

One of the many group interactive fun activities. Pick a chute and pump away. First rubber duck to the bottom wins!

Giant Chess & Checkers Game

One of the many group interactive fun activities for any age.

Scarecrow & Cornstalk Puppet Shows

(Festivals weekends) Kids love these 15 minute musical productions featuring Sneaky the Fox, the Little Red Hen & others.

Free Make & Take Fall Scarecrows

(Sept – Oct).  You’ll have a white sack (head) you were given at admissions!  The clothes and straw  are supplied at the Make & Take Scarecrow Pavilion to make a real scarecrow to take home!  Or dress up as some and come on over!

Campfire’s

Great family fun at Prairie Gardens & Adventure Farm! Inquire about reserving a site. Small fee.

Corn Eating Contest

Kid’s and adults alike love tucking into our sweet corn, fresh picked from our Edmonton area market garden!

Seniors Outings

Tick Tock!

Remember me from the Storyland Valley Zoo?  Thousands do…Take a photo with me – I have a new home at Prairie Gardens!

“Hi Tam,
We had a fantastic time at Prairie Gardens last Thursday! Incidentally, none of our group had ever visited the farm and they were beyond impressed! We spent nearly five hours at the farm and the kids still weren’t done playing. Thank you for the fabulous day! ” Janine Gammon, Community Managers, Momstown – Edmonton South