Designed specifically for homeschool groups & families
Experience Florida’s vibrant music and art history at Cracker Country! Explore the museum’s historic buildings and chat with our friendly staff as you step back into the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Homeschoolers can dive into hands-on activities that bring this era’s art and music to life. Enjoy live demonstrations featuring the dulcimer, pump organ, and conga drum, craft your own musical instrument, and try your hand at everyday chores like churning butter or washing laundry on a washboard. You’ll also get to paint with watercolor, learn about influential Florida artists from the late 1800s, and complete an art-themed scavenger hunt. It’s an immersive, creative, and unforgettable way to experience Florida’s past!
Activities:
- Tour our historic buildings with interpreters sharing history at every turn
- See our model train display
- Color, glue & wrap your own musical instrument crafts
- Paint Cracker Country scenes using watercolor paints
- Make some joyful noise at our found‑instrument station—perfect for toddlers—using pots, pans, and washboards
- Try your hand at doing laundry on a scrub board
- Churn & taste butter
- Play with old-fashioned toys
- Print a postcard on an antique printing press
- Learn about Florida writers from the 1890s
- Make a candle or decorate wood castanets to take home ($1 each)
- And plenty more hands‑on fun!
Add-on Lecture: Music & Literature in the Late 19th Century
- Price: $2 add-on to Homeschool Day general admission ticket
- Ages: The lecture is designed for students aged 12+
- Time: 45-minute lecture at 11 am & 1 pm
- Location: Governors Inn at Cracker Country
Bring a Picnic Lunch: Picnic tables are available for a picnic lunch.
Shopping: There are lots of unique items to be found at the General Store! The store features nostalgic and reproduction items, historical toys and games, books, candy, and many other unique gift items. The General Store accepts cash and all major credit cards. Proceeds from sales in the General Store help support Cracker Country’s education programs.
