Posted in Activities, Sponsors, Trails, tagged cute potato sponsors, cutepotato.com, historic farmhouse, kids activities maine, kids outside, maine, outdoor activities, outdoor play, programs for nature lovers, wells, Wells Reserve at Laudholm, winter, winter beach, winter camps, winter in Maine, winter vacation camps on February 16, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Wells Reserve at Laudholm is home to a beautiful historic farmhouse and 7-miles of trails where families can explore forest, a salt marsh and estuary, and Laudholm Beach. The wide open spaces in between are perfect for sledding, snowshoeing or cross-country skiing. If that weren’t enough to entice you, the staff at the Reserve has a few great days of activities planned for February vacation — from nature-inspired camps and crafts to a day dedicated to spending time outdoors.
Posted in Activities, Adventure, Events, Parks, Road Trips, Trails, Uncategorized, tagged Circus Maine, Circus on Point, cross-country skiing, cumberland town forest, cutepotato.com, families, family activities for winter, family stays midcoast maine, hidden valley nature center, jefferson maine, kids, maine, maine cabins, maine forest yurts, maine land trusts, maine yurts, midcoast conservancy, outdoors, outside, saco heath preservce, seacoast adventures, snow tubing in maine, snowshoeing, windham maine, winslow park freeport, winter activities maine, winter walks on January 6, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year! We missed you. With the holidays behind us, our thoughts are turning to winter and our wish list of things to do throughout the season. Skating, cross-country skiing, brunching with friends and local road trips have become favorite activities for our family, but we’re always looking to do more. Here’s our wish list for 2017: (more…)
Posted in Activities, tagged Allosauraus skull, animatronic dinosaurs, cutepotato.com, dig table, dinosaur fossils, dinosaurs and birds, dinosaurs unearthed, ideas for christmas break, ideas for holiday break, jurassic park, Late Jurassic period, maine, Matt Stone, paleontologists, Portland, portland science center, T-Rex, T-Rex with feathers, things to do with kids in portland maine, Triceratops, Yangchuanosaurus on December 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Our team recently had the opportunity to check out “Dinosaurs Unearthed” at Portland Science Center. The interactive exhibit is like Jurassic Park come to life. Families will find thirteen fully animatronic dinosaurs that were created by paleontologists and researchers to make the dinosaurs appear as close to the real thing as possible. The exhibit is particularly exciting for Portland, as the show marks its debut in New England.
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Posted in Activities, tagged Commercial Street, cost of Titanic ticket, cutepotato.com, differences between classes, family adventures, first class room Titanic, iceberg, kid-friendly exhibits, kid-friendly museums, Maine Wharf, Matt Stone, portland maine, portland science center, third class room Titanic, Titanic, Titanic facts, Titanic orchestra, Titanic: The Artifact Ehibition, Wallace Hartley on August 9, 2016| Leave a Comment »
We were excited to learn about the opening of the new Portland Science Center last fall, and since then, it’s been on our bucket list of places to visit. The center was designed to create an atmosphere of entertainment and learning, which is something we can totally get behind!
The latest exhibit, Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, caught our attention immediately. MP has long been fascinated by the story of Titanic and she was eager to share it with the kids and her nephew, C, who was visiting from California.
Posted in Activities, Events, Food, Road Trips, tagged 1839 replica one room school house, 1894 carousel, 19th century dairy equipment, 19th century instruments, 19th century willowbrook village, Adventure, antique farm tools, baked beans, bean supper, classes at Willowbrook in Newfield, cutepotato.com, durgin barn, Family, Farms, gneiss brewing company, gold pearl printing press, hand forged knife, Hilltop Boilers, history, kids, knife making, laura ingalls wilder, letterpress printing, little house in the big woods, maine, maine sugarhouse, maple syrup, maple syrup saturday, maple whoopie pies, newfield maine, restored carriages and sleighs, sap bucket races, Travel, village, willowbrook village, Willowbrook Village opening day, wooden butter churn on March 30, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Note: Sadly, Willowbrook Village closed in fall 2016 after 46 years of operation. See this Portland Press Herald feature for more.
With Maine Maple Sunday landing on Easter this year, we knew we wouldn’t have time to visit one of our favorite farms. So, we decided to switch things up a little and make the trip to 19th Century Willowbrook Village in Newfield for Maple Syrup Saturday. The historic, country village has long been on our wish list of places to visit and this special event, which featured carriage rides, maple syrup making, a bean supper-style lunch, and a letterpress demonstration, gave us good reason to go.
Posted in Activities, Road Trips, tagged Adventure, Aisling Sarnacki, camden maine, Camden Snow Bowl, camden toboggan chute, Camden Winterfest, chute master, cute potato family, cutepotato.com, Family, family adventures Maine, Hosmer Pond, ice chute, kids, Landon Fake, maine, maine and families, maine winter activities, New England toboggan chute, outdoors, Stuart Young, things to do with kids in maine, toboggan, toboggan chute, Travel, U.S. National Toboggan Championships, winter, winter fun maine on February 3, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Our family recently traveled to Camden for the start of Winterfest — a week-long celebration that features an ice-carving contest, polar plunge, freestyle skiing competition, family-friendly activities and the 2016 U.S. National Toboggan Championships, which take place at the Camden Snow Bowl February 5-7.
Colder evening temps keep the chute running, despite the lack of snow this season.
Posted in Activities, Road Trips, Trails, Travel, tagged adventures, apples to apples, Beat the Parents, board games, Boulangerie Kennebunk, cross-country skiing, cute potato, cutepotato.com, dog sledding in Maine, downeaster from maine to boston, easy winter hikes for families, Family, Heywood Kennels, ice castles, kids, libby hill forest, maine, Monopoly, outdoors, PB&ME, portland maine, The Family Ice Center in Falmouth, The Rink at Thomson's Point, train to boston, Travel, UNO, Waterhouse Ice Rink Kennebunk, winter, winter adventures bucket list, winter adventures in maine for families, winter snowshoeing trails on January 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Last year, MP shared some of the adventures she hoped to try with the family during the winter season, and it was one of the blog’s most popular posts. We had so much fun exploring cross-country skiing and ice fishing, MP decided to come up with an updated list of activities for our family to try during the chilly months ahead:
Dog Sledding
The kids learned a little about sled dogs during L.L.Bean’s Winter Carnival, but they have always hoped for the opportunity to experience dog sledding first hand. Heywood Kennels in Augusta accepts Winter Kids passports, which offers families a generous discount on dog sledding adventures. Families get to meet the dogs, enjoy a sled ride and drink hot cocoa by the fire.
