Sometimes there is nothing like a real hands-on experience to help our children understand that all the food we eat, toys we play with, electronics we work with and enjoy, and every other item in our household that we consume, or service that we avail ourselves of, come from people just like us.
How to get that point across? Take them for a visit: to the place where their candy, toys and other things, come from.
Here is a list of five of the best company tours you can take your children on.
1. The Peanut Patch: In Southwest Arizona visitors will see how this family-run business creates wonderful peanut butter.
2. Steinway and Sons: Tours of this venerable maker of pianos are conducted in their Long Island factory on either Monday or Tuesday and last between 2 ½ and 3 hours. Visitors must be 16 years-old and up to participate.
3. Jelly Belly: The 40-minute walking tour through this Fairfield, California factory takes guests through the real working factory where over 150 sweet treats are created. Tours are held daily from 9am to 4pm except on New Year’s Day, Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
4. Celestial Seasonings: Tea lovers will love this tour, held every day except for major holidays. Held Monday through Friday from 10am until 4pm, expect a tour to last about 45 minutes. The tours are held at Celestial Seasonings Boulder, Colorado production plant, and reservations are suggested for visits during the busy seasons of spring and summer vacations, and required for groups of 8 people or more.
5. Cape Cod Potato Chips: If you would like to see how potato chips are made in a fast, self-guided tour, this is for you. Located in Hyannis, Massachusetts, the tours are Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm except for weekends and holidays.
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