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Trick or treat with Abe at the
Lincoln Heritage Museum
[October 26, 2026]
The Lincoln Heritage Museum
hosted “Trick or Treat with Abe” inside the museum on Saturday,
October 24th. Those who attended received free admission to the
museum, but the museum did request canned food donations for a local
food pantry.
There were many families present,
with a few fun games and stations for kids to play a game and get
candy. The first station was a button spinner game. One of the
volunteers showed the kids how to play, then they tried it
themselves. There was a large button with a string fed through the
middle. One would grab both ends of the string and start spinning
the button in circles, similar to how a jump rope moves, just much
smaller. They would then pull the strings taut as fast as they could
and hold it. The button in the middle would quickly spin around the
string.
The kids who tried had varying degrees of success. The slightly
older kids had an easier go of it than the smaller ones. Regardless
of how they performed, however, each child received candy before
moving on to the next station.
Second was a station with a game
where kids would pass a small bean bag back and forth using only a
small piece of wood with a small wooden bowl on the end. The game
was harder than it appeared, with many kids struggling to both catch
the bean bag or throw it accurately.
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The catcher tool had two bowls,
one on either end. It could be used to play catch with another
person, but it could also be used to play catch with oneself.
The person would toss the bag up in the air, flip the tool
around, and catch it in the other bowl.
LDN caught a
video of President Lincoln doing this and doing it quite
well.
The third station was very similar
to ring toss. Kids would get a ring made of thin rope. They would
then take this rope and try to get it around one of four small,
wooden poles. Depending on the age, volunteer Curtis Fox would let
them stand closer or instruct them to stand farther away. Regardless
of how well the kids did, they would be rewarded with candy.
Once families had gone through each
of the stations, they came back around to the entrance for one last
station. This station, with a sign that read “are you batty for Aby?”
let kids color a small bat cutout that looked like Abe Lincoln. Once
colored, the kids could attach it to a straw and take it home with
them.
Trick or treat with Abe slideshow
Abraham Lincoln tries his luck with the bag toss game video
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