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The best cultural activity center where YOU create it, make it and take it!

Make A Friend Workshop at
Cherry Crest Adventure Farm

(Directions Below)
May
29th – Saturday 12:00-5:00pm
31st – Monday Memorial Day 12:00-5:00pm

Visting other dates in May? Call for appointments!

June
Saturday 12:00-5:00pm
*Train Week 14th – 19th 12:00-5:00pm

Visiting other dates in June? Visit our Kitchen Kettle location.

July
Tuesday-Saturday 10:00am-5:00pm

August
Tuesday-Saturday 10:00am-5:00pm

September
Friday and Saturday 10:00am-5:00pm
*Back to School Week 1st & 2nd 10:00am-5:00pm
*Train Week 13th – 18th 10:00am-5:00pm

October
Friday, Saturday 10:00am-5:00pm
*Columbus Day 11th 10:00am-5:00pm

November
*End of Fall 5th, 6th 10:00am-5:00pm

Make-A-Friend Workshop at Cherry Crest Adventure Farm is our main workshop. Paid admission to Cherry Crest Adventure Farm is NOT required to visit our workshop. Please check our workshop hours at our Kitchen Kettle location in the town of Intercourse, PA for additional hours. We will miss you if you can’t visit either of our workshops this season! Please feel free to create your friend or order your wooden creation on-line.


Make A Friend Workshop at
Kitchen Kettle Village

(Directions Below)
May
29th – Saturday 12:00-5:00pm
31st – Monday Memorial Day 12:00-5:00pm

June, July, August, September, October
Monday – Saturday 10:00 – 5:00

November
Friday & Saturday 10:00 – 5:00

December
Saturday 10:00 – 5:00

Make-A-Friend Workshop Express – smaller in size than our main workshop at Cherry Crest Farm, but not smaller in fun! Our young guests will have a great experience making their Amish friend with hand-made clothing or wooden creation with hand-crafted pieces. Plus, a super cool playground and petting zoo adjacent to the workshop are just waiting for young explorers.

Our Cherry Crest Farm Workshop in Lancaster County PA
Discover, Experience, Create...
Take it all Home!
A family chooses their new friend
The workshop is FUNCATIONAL! It's Fun and Educational at the same time!
(A pleased parent)

Build a Barn
This place was the best
part of my vacation

(A young workshop guest)

On your next family vacation, make plans to visit the actual Make-a-Friend Workshops in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Right in the center of Amish country! Step inside our fun workshop and your cultural adventure begins. Choose between building a wooden barn, train, airplane, tractor and wagon or an Amish friend.

Make-A-Friend

To begin making a friend be sure to get your workshop pass and then make your way around to the six different Creation Stations throughout the workshop. Not only will you create a friend from Amish country with authentic handmade clothing, but you will also learn about your friend's culture at two special activity stations. Learn about life inside a one room school house while you practice German calligraphy and try your skill at knotting a quilt at our quilt frame. Finish up by signing and sealing your friendship certificate and ringing the hanging cast iron school bell to celebrate that a friend has been made. Only $20.00!!

*Please note, the German calligraphy station and quilt station are not available at Make-A-Friend Workshop Express at Kitchen Kettle.

Barnyard Builders

Feel like a carpenter? Well grab your hammer and workman's goggles and head over to the workshop bench. Choose your creation - a wooden Lancaster County barn, steam train, or tractor and wagon. We'll supply everything you'll need to build your special creation. All of our wooden pieces have been handcrafted by a local Amish craftsman so your final project will truly be a treasure that lasts for Build a train and take it homeyears to come. A signed Craftsman's Certificate celebrates a job well done!

Two Great Locations!

Both workshops offering guests the opportunity to make an Amish friend or a wooden creation.

Make-A-Friend Workshop at Cherry Crest Adventure Farm - Our main workshop, is nestled among the beautiful rolling fields of Lancaster County. Move away from the busy highways and travel through some of the most picturesque scenery around to Cherry Crest Farm in Paradise! If you'd like, plan on spending the day at Cherry Crest, home of the Amazing Maize Maze and numerous fun barnyard activities just waiting to be enjoyed. Make-a-Friend Workshop at Cherry Crest Farm is easily found 1.5 miles east of Strasburg on Cherry Hill Road just off of route 741. GPS Address – 150 Cherry Hill Road, Ronks PA 17572
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Make-A-Friend Workshop Express at Kitchen Kettle Village - Our express workshop is located in the bustling town of Intercourse at Kitchen Kettle Village. Visit our workshop, play on the playground, greet the animals at the petty zoo and then explore Kitchen Kettle with all of its many wonderful sights, sounds and tastes! Find us our Express workshop on Route 340 right in the center of the town of Intercourse. GPS Address - 3529 Old Philadelphia Pike, Intercourse, PA 17534
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