Kaleidoscope

We like to go to the local museum and science center quite frequently. The most recent time we went I decided I would make the kiddos stop running from the water and sand area to the mastodon area and actually look at the Kaleidoscope they have off to the side in their main foyer. I’m so glad I did – what a treat! The pic above is actually where you look into it, the eye hole is rather large, don’t you think?

This is what it looks like when you are looking into it. You can’t see it in the photo this size, but Sweet Pea is looking in the other end at the camera. Isn’t it neat? The color here doesn’t do it justice.

This is the end you are actually looking at, although this is the outside, looking into the tunnel, if you know what I mean. Sweet Pea and I switched places. If you look closely in the center at the circle you can see him peering back!

At first neither Cutie Pie or Sweet Pea were interested in this, but once I held them up to peer through they loved it! Sweet Pea doesn’t know enough words yet to say what he thought, but by his facial expression and the way he was running from one end to the other you could tell he was fascinated by it. Cutie Pie loved it, too, and was questioning what made the colors and patterns he could see. Once he saw the slivers of stone he thought the whole thing was pretty neat! I can’t wait for his interest in the stones to deepen!

I love this place…so many neat little things to draw the kiddos’ attention to on each visit. And on each visit, when it seems there is nothing new for them to be interested in, I realize they are just old enough to be interested in yet another thing that has been there all along!