This is the first official week of We Play at Childhood 101. I like to visit that site, so I thought I’d join their Tuesday posting of a play space we’ve enjoyed during the week. It is supposed to be a playspace at home, preschool, child care or kindy, so I’m including two since we are trying to play everywhere we can, not just at home (because I don’t do preschool with my 3 yr old yet) and I want to play by the rules.
The first is where we went today. It’s a favorite of Cutie Pie, a local hands-on science museum that currently has a traveling dinosaur exhibit. One of their permanent exhibits, if you will, is a sand and water tub where the boys head every time. The water is continually circulating and the main reason for the exhibit is to explain water erosion, among other things, but my boys just love playing in the water! I’m sure they see what happens to the sand when the water runs into it, and we do talk about it, but they really just have fun with it!
The second photo is our ‘gravel pit’ by our driveway. Cutie Pie is sooooo attracted to it to play with toys, and Sweet Pea for the gravel! And yes, his construction vehicles have a purpose there! Lots of pretend play and imaginary building go on here on an almost daily basis! Lucky for us (?) we don’t have a vehicle that needs to use this spot by our driveway as a parking spot! Talk about keeping the boys occupied for hours!
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I may be a little jealous of that museum. I don't think we have anything like that here {do we?} Great post!
Now I am wishing we had a gravel pit and wondering where I can put one! What a nice change to sand play. Thank you so much for linking up 🙂
Looks fun…My 4 year old would love that science museum.
That does look like a great digging pit. I'm with Christie…where can we put one?!!
I like the gravel pit! I'd be a bit scared that my 9 month old would EAT more gravel than anything else sadly.
Your gravel pit looks fun. It reminds me of a trip we took to NZ and for 2 weeks my son played with a toy digger (his only toy) and a pile of rocks. btw, I'm with you the only female in the house.
I love the look of the science museum, I bet your boys love to get dirty in the sand!