Hand-weaving baskets for our 35th Homestead Fair! Can you guess why the basket is torched at the end?
Match Pots
Our potters have been hard at work for weeks, preparing for the Fair by throwing pots on the potter’s wheel, glazing and firing. Are you coming to out to see their works of art this year?
Press Release: 35th Annual Homestead Fair
35th Annual Homestead Fair To Open Thanksgiving Weekend An Annual Heritage Festival of Crafts, Food, Hands-on Activities, Farm Animals, Shopping and Family Fun Preparations are underway for the 35th annual Homestead Fair on Thanksgiving weekend. The 3-day event is easily accessible right off Interstate 35 in Central Texas just north of Waco and will …
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Watch the Homestead Fair Video
For a glimpse of the many sights and sounds you’ll experience at Homestead Fair, watch this short 5-minute video:
Preparing our sheep for shearing
We have prepared the sheep for the sheep shearing demonstration during this weekend’s Fair!
Cutting Boards for the Fair!
The nice thing about hand work is that much of it can be accomplished at home. These young boys, all brothers, worked diligently at their home to finish beautiful, small cutting boards for sale during the Fair at the Woodworking booth.
Woven by Little Hands
Did you know that all baskets were woven by hand? There are no machines that can weave baskets, so every one made is handwoven. A group of small kids wanted to make a gift basket set for the Fair. They set to work about a month ago. First they soaked, wrapped and wove slats into …
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Hand-Crafted Pottery
Many eager little children have gathered outside and worked with clay to make little sugar spoons, butter dishes and more for the Fair. For some of the smallest, it was their first Fair project! We signed each little work of art and set them to dry for a couple weeks. After the pottery dried, we …
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Woodworking from the Smallest Hands
These young boys gathered with their dads, grandfathers and older brothers for some evening woodworking classes this summer in our large woodworking shop at the Homestead Craft Village. For many of these boys, these hand-carved, wooden spoons are their very first wood projects. Now these beautiful spoons are displayed for sale for this weekend’s Homestead …
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Sunset on the 32nd Annual Homestead Fair
With full and grateful hearts we want to thank each and every one of the 15,552 visitors who came out to spend these three wonderful days with us at Homestead Fair. Whether you came with with family, brought friends or came alone, we hope you had a wonderful time with us and left with a …
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