We spent Saturday morning as a family running errands, but the evening having lots of fun at a local children’s museum, which is hardly a museum at all! We have a family membership and visit quite frequently on weekend evenings which is much less crowded than days during the week. This is a hands-on museum with lots of activities engaging children in learning without them realizing, which I love, plus it is just so much fun, for parents, too! It’s really a neat place as they try to incorporate activities for a variety of age groups in each area.
Here are pics from two of our favorite places within the museum:
The Fish Tank greets the kids upon entering. My boys will stand and stare for long periods of time, almost forgetting the rest of the fun is there! Cutie Pie is starting to notice all the
starfish throughout and points out how the fish differ from each other in size or color as well as how they move differently from each other. Sweet Pea seems fascinated with their movement and often follows one fish with his finger for as long as he can. Cutie Pie seems so stricken with this aquarium that we are thinking to going to the larger aquarium a few hours drive away from here to expose him to other creatures he hasn’t seen before!
I’m not sure what this kind of xylophone is called, but it is in the Berenstain Bears area. Not being very familiar with the more recent Berenstain Bears material, I’m not sure if this is something in their stories or not. At any rate, the kids pick up the wooden balls and place them into the holes, then turn the nob to make the belt move, when each ball falls it hits the xylophone. The idea is to get kids to think about where to put the balls to make a song, but most kids just roll the balls letting them fall where they may and turn the nob creating a song all their own. My kids love this and will go back repeatedly, and get really excited just hearing their creation. Of course, we often find ourselves keeping an eye on the kiddos, but plunking the balls down on our own trying to play the nursery rhymes we know!
Anticipating more day trips this week and lots more fun!
What a wonderful Saturday. My children ADORE the Berenstain Bears.
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Traci