Jumping on the Bed: Children's Museum

Peanut and I made our first trip to the Minnesota Children's Museum last week and had a fabulous time. We were joined by some friends from our Thursday morning ecfe class and that made it even better! Here he is sporting his admission sticker: It's not a cheap date I will say, but it is chock full of fun and learning.

It was fun to watch and notice how much he's changed and grown since our last visit to a children's museum. He is much more hands on now!

I could never figure out where these "acorns" were going, but Peanut had fun funneling them into the machine.

He was not about to stick his hand in the hole without taking a peek inside first. Smart kid.

We did not leave this exhibit dry. Smile.

With his friend from class in the canoe. They played together so well.

I thought this was such a neat activity for the kids. They placed foam blocks on a belt and then turned the wheel to move them. Great cause and effect! The whole contraption included pulleys, levers, and other kid powered vehicles to move the blocks up to the second level of the "house" and then back down. Very clever!

He loved the water feature/ball combination! Maybe a future beach volleyball player? Ah...not with that complexion I hope!

This was just so colorful I wanted to get a shot of it! The picture doesn't do justice to how bright and beautiful it is with the sun shining in. These next pics were taken in the play town part of the museum. Speedy Delivery? Im not sure how, but he made the connection between that hat and the mailbox all on his own!

His own cart! Hmmnn.. a banana in the cart, doesn't surprise me you little monkey!

I love this next picture. If you look closely you can see that Peanut's little friend has loaded down her cart with fruits and veggies. Peanut's cart has 2 containers of Chinese take out. Ha!