First Visit: Children’s Museum

Yesterday Raelyn and I had our first outing to the Children’s Museum. We met our good friends (Jennifer, Keith & Duncan) there and spent a few hours exploring.

Our first activity was to ride on the carousel. I wasn’t sure how Raelyn would react, but she loved it!

 

We spent some time at the ScienceWorks, Playscape, and Dinosphere exhibits.  Raelyn really enjoyed splashing in the water at Playscape. She also had fun playing in the “Babyscape” play area with a few other toddlers.

She was too worn out to see the trains (Keith’s favorite area of the museum"). Hopefully we’ll hit that up on our next visit. 

Indoor “Sandbox”

I’ve been trying to come up with (or find online) fun age-appropriate crafts or activities for Raelyn and I to enjoy together. We recently tried out what I am calling an indoor sandbox activity.

I poured a tub of oatmeal into a tupperware dish and then added “buried treasures”, spoons, and scoops. This activity kept Rae’s interest for a good 15 – 20 minutes and only required minimal use of the vacuum afterwards.

I chose oatmeal over dried beans or rice because I was pretty sure she would try to eat it and oatmeal would be less of a choking hazard. I was right, she put a few flakes in her mouth but quickly spit them out realizing they didn’t taste that great.

Raelyn knew this spoon could hold the oatmeal so she used one hand to pick up pieces and put into the spoon. I showed her how to use the spoon to scoop it up, but she liked doing it her way better. It’s so neat to see her mind at work!

 

To my mom readers: If you have any favorite sites or blogs with kid activity/craft/etc ideas, I would love a link!  Here are two I recently found with some great ideas: No Time For Flashcards  and  Family Fun (from Disney)  I appreciate that with both of those sites I can search by age.