Homeschool days, free outings, library passes and family events in Gray and Jones County, plus Macon, Warner Robins, Perry and Milledgeville, each checked with the museum, park, library or organizer page.
Getting a card: PINES library cards are free for Georgia residents. Bring a government-issued photo ID that shows your current address. Children need a parent or guardian with them to sign up.
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Sat, Oct 31: Halloween Duck Hunt at the Museum of Aviation, Museum of Aviation Foundation (Robins AFB). Free admission (one duck per person; prize for every duck returned)📅 Add to calendar
Halloween events around Gray, checked on each organizer's page on Oct 25, 2026.
Enchanted Trail at the Museum of Arts and Sciences (Halloween)
Museum of Arts & Sciences (MAS) · Macon (Museum of Arts & Sciences, amphitheater · Macon)
Halloween trailPaidNext: Fri, Oct 30Good for little kids (2–4)MaconPreschool · Kids · Teens
A non-scary Halloween adventure: guides lead small groups along the nature trail to look for clues and solve a mystery, with characters to meet for photos and autographs, and the museum's owls and snakes along the way. The prize for solving it is a piece of candy. Costumes are encouraged. Groups leave continuously, so you can arrive any time.
⚠️ Not fully confirmed: This is listed only on the Jones County News community calendar. No organizer page was found, and the listing gives no cost, activities or whether there is trick-or-treating, so contact the church or the county before you go.
Halloween falls on Saturday, Oct 31, 2026. Trick-or-treat events checked Oct 25, 2026.
Trunk-or-treats & trick-or-treat events, Oct 25–31
Enchanted Trail at the Museum of Arts and Sciences (Halloween)
Museum of Arts & Sciences (MAS) · Macon (Museum of Arts & Sciences, amphitheater · Macon)
Halloween trailPaidNext: Fri, Oct 30Good for little kids (2–4)MaconPreschool · Kids · Teens
A non-scary Halloween adventure: guides lead small groups along the nature trail to look for clues and solve a mystery, with characters to meet for photos and autographs, and the museum's owls and snakes along the way. The prize for solving it is a piece of candy. Costumes are encouraged. Groups leave continuously, so you can arrive any time.
Check each event's page before you go, since times and places can change.
Dress for the weather. The MAS trail is outdoors and runs weather permitting.
Clocks fall back one hour on Sunday, Nov 1.
Homeschool days & classes (6 listings)
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Homeschool STEM Labs at the Museum of Aviation (grades K–10)
Museum of Aviation Foundation · Robins AFB (Museum of Aviation, STEM classrooms · Warner Robins & Perry)
Museum STEM labPaidNext: Wed, Nov 4Warner Robins & Perry
Hands-on, grade-grouped STEM labs just for homeschoolers, taught in separate classrooms by grade. Next up: grades 6–10 build and launch their own solid-propellant rockets in the amphitheater (Rocketry Science), and on Nov 18 grades K–5 take Animal Adaptations while grades 6–10 take Astronomy with a Starlab planetarium.
Tubman African American Museum · Macon (Tubman African American Museum · Macon)
History museum programPaidOngoing / by arrangementMacon
The museum says it can design a program around your curriculum, built on African American history, art and culture with interactive exhibits and hands-on activities. Group visits can include a guided tour, a short video, a museum store stop and optional workshops.
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When: By arrangement with the museum's Education Department
Time: Not listed on source
Price: The home school page lists no price. Guided group tours for 15 or more are $9 per student (ages 3–17) and $11 per adult, with one free chaperone per 15 students.
Ages: Not listed on source
Booking: Contact the museum's Education Department using the details on the Home School page.
⚠️ Not fully confirmed: The home school page gives no dates, group minimum or price. The group rates shown are for guided tours of 15 or more, so ask the museum what a smaller homeschool group would pay.
Homeschool Field Trip Days at the Museum of Arts and Sciences
Museum of Arts & Sciences (MAS) · Macon (Museum of Arts & Sciences · Macon)
Museum field trip dayPaidOngoing / by arrangementGood for little kids (2–4)MaconPreschool · Kids
Days set aside for homeschool families and small co-ops who are too small to book a standard field trip. Each day has a theme, and you pick your own programs from the kinds of programs school groups get (the museum's field trips include Science on a Sphere, STEAM activities, the nature trail and exhibits). Most days offer a younger track (K–3) and an older track (4th–12th). Doors open at 9:45 a.m. and programs start at 10 a.m.
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When: No date posted yet. The museum says there are usually two in the fall and two in the spring.
Time: Doors 9:45 a.m., programs start 10 a.m.
Price: $10 per child with one free adult per family. Additional adults are $10 each.
Ages: Most days have K–3 and 4th–12th options
Booking: Tickets are required and are sold on the museum's Events page. A parent or guardian must stay with each child in all shows and programs.
⚠️ Not fully confirmed: No upcoming Homeschool Field Trip Day is posted on the events page yet, so watch the Events page for the next one. Children 3–4 pay the $10 child price.
Ranger-led field trip at Jarrell Plantation (grades K–12)
Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site · Juliette (Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site · Gray & Jones County)
Historic site field tripPaidOngoing / by arrangementGood for little kids (2–4)Gray & Jones CountyPreschool
A 1.5-hour ranger-led tour of two historic cotton farms and more than 20 original 19th- and early 20th-century buildings (the Jarrell family farmed here from 1847 into the 1940s). Hands-on stops can include separating cotton seed from lint, meeting the farm animals, butter churning, spinning and weaving, and old-fashioned toys and games. A picnic area is available for lunch afterward.
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When: By reservation, on a date you arrange (two weeks' notice required)
Time: About 1.5 hours
Price: $4 per student and $5.50 per adult chaperone (group rate for an organized group of 15 or more)
Ages: Kindergarten through 12th grade
Booking: Call the Visitor Center to book (the number is on the park's field trips page). Groups over 50 students are split across days. Rain dates are available.
⚠️ The group rate needs an organized group of 15 or more. If you have a smaller family group, ask the Visitor Center what you would pay.
Hay House (a property of The Georgia Trust) · Macon (Hay House · Macon)
Historic house tourPaidOngoing / by arrangementMacon
Age-specific, reservation-only tours of this National Historic Landmark house. Tours last about 1 to 1½ hours and run Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Group sizes are limited and larger groups may be split and rotated.
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When: Mon–Fri, 9:30 a.m.–3 p.m., by reservation (at least three weeks ahead)
Time: Mon–Fri, 9:30 a.m.–3 p.m.
Price: $10 per student. The group leader and bus driver are free, and additional adults are $10 each.
Ages: Age-specific school tours (ages not listed)
Booking: Call or email, or use the reservation form on the School Tours page, at least three weeks ahead. One adult is required for every ten students.
⚠️ Not fully confirmed: The page is written for schools and does not mention homeschool groups. Ask whether your group qualifies for the $10 school rate. The regular daily tour is $20 for adults and $15 for students (ages 6 to college with ID), with no reservation needed, and the upper floors are reachable by stairs only.
Georgia's Old Governor's Mansion (Georgia College) · Milledgeville (Georgia's Old Governor's Mansion · Milledgeville)
Historic house tourPaidOngoing / by arrangementMilledgevilleAll ages welcome
Guided tours led by student docents through a Greek Revival house that was home to eight Georgia governors from 1839 to 1868 and was General Sherman's headquarters in November 1864. Tours start on the hour and last about 50 minutes. Lesson plans and pre- and post-tour activities for grades 4, 8 and U.S. history are on the mansion's educational resources page.
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When: Walk-ins Tue–Sat 10 a.m.–4 p.m. and Sun 2–4 p.m. (tours on the hour; closed Mondays, holidays and Thanksgiving week). Group tours of 10 or more are by reservation.
Time: Tours on the hour, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Price: Walk-in tours: adults $10, students $2, children under 6 free (plus 8% sales tax). School-group tours are $2 per person, including chaperones.
Ages: All ages (free under 6)
Booking: Walk-ins are welcome. Groups of 10 or more fill in the group tour form on the Tour the Mansion page. Groups are capped at 30 students per tour.
⚠️ The mansion is closed the week after Christmas Day.
ArboretumFree (per source)Ongoing / by arrangementGood for little kids (2–4)MilledgevilleAll ages welcome
Walking trails, a pond with picnic tables, and the historic Rose Hill house. The Woods Museum is a self-guided, interactive museum on fossils, minerals, soils and trees, and it is home to reptiles. Lockerly says public, private and home-school students visit for grade-specific programs, and teachers and groups call to arrange a visit.
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When: Mon–Fri 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; Saturdays 10 a.m.–7 p.m. through Nov 15 (Saturday hours start again in March). Closed the Monday before Christmas and reopens Jan 2.
Time: Not listed on source
Price: Gardens and grounds free. Guided Rose Hill tours (Saturdays) are $5 per person.
Ages: All ages
Booking: School and homeschool group visits are arranged by calling Lockerly (the number is on its Visit page).
⚠️ Not fully confirmed: Lockerly's page does not post a fall homeschool schedule or group pricing, so call before you plan a group visit. Dogs must be on a leash, and no animals, including service dogs, are allowed in Rose Hill. The Learning page lists Meet our Reptiles on Saturdays at 10:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Museum of Aviation Foundation · Robins AFB (Museum of Aviation · Warner Robins & Perry)
Aviation museumFree (per source)Ongoing / by arrangementGood for little kids (2–4)Warner Robins & PerryAll ages welcome
Free admission and free parking at a large aviation museum with aircraft indoors and outdoors. Children and youth groups must stay with supervising adults, and unscheduled groups check in at the Eagle Desk and sign a self-guided field trip form.
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When: Mon–Sat 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Sun 1–5 p.m. (closed New Year's Day, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day; open until 1 p.m. on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve)
Time: Not listed on source
Price: Free admission and parking
Ages: All ages
Booking: Not listed on source
⚠️ Bicycles, skateboards, skates, running, glass containers and drones are not allowed, and only service animals may come in. The entrance is just south of the Russell Gate of Robins Air Force Base.
National Park Service · Macon (Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park · Macon)
National parkFree (per source)Ongoing / by arrangementGood for little kids (2–4)MaconAll ages welcome
A national historical park with ancient earthen mounds and walking trails. The Visitor Center and Earth Lodge are open every day, and no entrance pass is required.
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When: Grounds and trails 8 a.m.–5 p.m. daily; Visitor Center and Earth Lodge 9 a.m.–5 p.m. daily (closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day)
Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge trails and wildlife drive
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service · Round Oak (Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge · Gray & Jones County)
Wildlife refugePrice not listedOngoing / by arrangementGray & Jones CountyAll ages welcome
Over seven miles of walking trails (the 0.9-mile Allison Lake Trail, 1.1-mile Pine & Creek Trails, the 1-mile Dragonfly Trail and a 2.9-mile red-cockaded woodpecker trail) plus a 6-mile self-guided gravel wildlife drive. Trails near Allison Lake cross uneven, hilly ground.
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When: Daylight hours, sunrise to sunset. Closed to everyone except permitted hunters during fall firearm deer hunts.
Time: Not listed on source
Price: No entrance fee is mentioned on the refuge's visit page
Ages: All ages (trails are uneven)
Booking: Not listed on source
⚠️ Plan around the 2026–27 quota deer hunt dates in the hunt brochure: Oct 29–31, Nov 5–7 and Nov 12–14. Portions of the refuge can also close for flooding, timber work and prescribed burns. The Little Rock hiking trail is closed Nov 15 through Feb 15. Call the refuge office to confirm before you drive out.
Syrup Makin' Time at Jarrell Plantation (37th annual)
Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site · Juliette (Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site · Gray & Jones County)
Fall festivalPaidNext: Sat, Nov 7Good for little kids (2–4)Gray & Jones CountyAll ages welcome
Watch sugar cane syrup made the old-fashioned way: cane juice cooked in the original kettles and cane pressed on the steam-powered press. There is also live bluegrass music, spinning, weaving, blacksmithing, woodstove cooking and a Civil War encampment. Hot cane syrup is sold at the end of the day in limited quantities.
Planes and Trains Model Railroad Display at the Museum of Aviation
Museum of Aviation Foundation and Middle Georgia Model Railroad Club · Robins AFB (Museum of Aviation, Century of Flight Hangar · Warner Robins & Perry)
Holiday displayFree (per source)Next: Sun, Nov 22Good for little kids (2–4)Warner Robins & PerryAll ages welcome
One of Middle Georgia's largest model train displays, with up to nine trains running on three main lines through miniature scenes (T, Z, N, HO, S, O and G scales), a Christmas Village and Thomas the Tank Engine. Santa visits in his restored reindeer sleigh on Friday Nov 27 at 10 a.m. and on Saturday and Sunday.
⚠️ Not fully confirmed: The event page is a vendor sign-up form. It gives only the date and time, not the location, admission or activities for shoppers, so check Main Street Gray before you go.
Georgia College & State University · Milledgeville (Andalusia · Milledgeville)
Historic home tourPaidOngoing / by arrangementMilledgevilleAll ages welcome
A guided house tour of the farm home where author Flannery O'Connor lived, on grounds you can walk at your own pace. Tours last about 30 minutes, start at the top of the hour and the last starts at 4 p.m. The college recommends at least an hour for the visit.
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When: Tue–Sat 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Sun 2–4 p.m. (closed Mondays, the weekend of Thanksgiving and winter break, usually Dec 23–Jan 2)
Time: Not listed on source
Price: Adults $7, seniors 60+ $6, students $2, children under 6 free (plus tax; cards only)
Ages: All ages (children under 6 free)
Booking: Not listed on source
⚠️ Andalusia is not ADA accessible. Groups of 10 or more book by form, and groups of nine or fewer don't need to reserve.
Georgia Department of Natural Resources · Perry (Go Fish Education Center · Warner Robins & Perry)
Aquarium and nature centerPaidOngoing / by arrangementGood for little kids (2–4)Warner Robins & PerryAll ages welcome
A state-run fishing education center with aquariums, in Perry. From September through May the center is reserved for scheduled education programs on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and it is open to the public the other days.
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When: Sept 1–May 31: Fri and Sat 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Sun 1–5 p.m. (check its calendar for holiday closures)
Time: Not listed on source
Price: Adults $7; seniors 65+ and active military $6; children 3–12 $5; ages 2 and under free (sales tax added)
Ages: All ages
Booking: To schedule an education program for a group, email the center using the address on its Visit page.
⚠️ A Go Fish Family Pass from your library gives up to four free admissions (see the library passes). The Visit page does not mention homeschool groups.
Georgia Sports Hall of Fame · Macon (Georgia Sports Hall of Fame · Macon)
Sports museumPaidOngoing / by arrangementGood for little kids (2–4)MaconAll ages welcome
One of the country's largest state sports museums: 14,000 square feet of exhibits, a Hall of Fame Corridor for more than 400 inductees, and a 205-seat theater, in a building styled like a turn-of-the-century ballpark.
Wiggleworms storytime at the Jones County Public Library
Jones County Public Library · Gray (Jones County Public Library · Gray & Jones County)
Library storytimeFree (per source)Ongoing / by arrangementGood for little kids (2–4)Gray & Jones CountyPreschool
A weekly storytime in Gray with read-aloud stories, fingerplays, songs and puppets. The branch also has a public computer lab, free WiFi, and e-books and audiobooks through Libby and Hoopla.
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When: Every Wednesday at 10 a.m. (library hours: Mon 9–6, Tue 9–7, Wed 9–6, Thu 9–6, Fri 8–5, Sat 10–2, closed Sunday)
Time: 10 a.m.
Price: Free
Ages: Age range not listed on source (children under 13 must be with an adult)
Booking: Not listed on source
⚠️ A PINES library card is free for Georgia residents. Bring a government-issued photo ID that shows your current address.
Museum of Arts and Sciences: planetarium and live animals
Museum of Arts & Sciences (MAS) · Macon (Museum of Arts & Sciences · Macon)
Science museumPaidOngoing / by arrangementGood for little kids (2–4)MaconAll ages welcome
A science and art museum with daily planetarium shows (children under 3 are not allowed in the planetarium), live animal experiences and a gyroscope. Admission includes the planetarium shows and live animal experiences unless noted.
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When: Tue–Sat 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (closed Sun, Mon, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Eve). Closed to the public Thu Nov 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Planetarium 11:30, 2 and 4; live animals Tue–Fri 3 p.m. and Sat 1 and 3 p.m.
Time: Not listed on source
Price: Adults $10, seniors 62+ and military $8, college students $7, children 3–17 $5, under 3 and members free
Ages: All ages (planetarium is 3 and up)
Booking: Not listed on source
⚠️ A Macon Museum Pass from your library covers general admission (see the library passes).
Museum of Aviation Foundation · Robins AFB (Museum of Aviation, Eagle Building rotunda · Warner Robins & Perry)
Holiday displayFree (per source)Ongoing / by arrangementGood for little kids (2–4)Warner Robins & PerryAll ages welcome
A walk-through display of decorated Christmas trees in the Eagle Building rotunda and on the second and third floors, with a vote for your favorite tree. Ugly Christmas sweaters are welcome for photos.
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When: Nov 22–Dec 29, 2026, during the museum's normal hours (Mon–Sat 9–5, Sun 1–5; closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day)