Field Trip Fun ~ Hands on House

During our trip to Lancaster County, in Pennsylvania we visited the Hands on House.   I have a membership to our local children’s museum which enables our family to get into children’s museums across the country for free through their reciprocal program, which I think is awesome.  I am trying to visit as many Children’s Museums during our travels as possible.  (Being that we don’t travel very often I suppose it may be a little more difficult, but still fun to try!!)  Anyway here are some pictures of the fun things there are to do at the Hands on House.  This is really a great little museum for children.  The last time we were here Emily was only about 18 month.  She had a good time, but was really able to play and enjoy it this time now that she was older and with her friends!  Juliette had a great time following Emily and checking everything out too.

One of Emily’s favorite exhibits is the store.  It is set up like a miniature grocery store.  There are all different types of foods, a real cash register, shopping carts and even shopping lists.  Emily and I worked together to get everything she needed from one of the shopping list and then her friend checked us out!

There is a dress up/make believe room.  Here the kids enjoyed pretending to steer a ship!

  Emily and Juliette picked corn from the corn stalks in this cute exhibit. Juliette loved this fishing exhibit…Daddy not so much, no I think I just caught him mid blink, but how could I not share that amazing little smile on Miss Juliette’s face!

If you are ever in the Lancaster area I totally recommend visiting the Hands on House for a fun and educational experience!

stART ~ Alice in Wonderland

A Story + Art = A Great stART!

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our book and art project and maybe even share your own too! For an explanation of stART click here.

We read Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland, retold Jon Scieszka. This version of the story was great for Emily because it was much shorter and the illustrations were bright and exciting. After we read the book we went to the Nassau County Museum of Art , Mini Art Museum for Children where they had the artist Max Hergenrother’s pen and ink illustrations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Emily looking at the artwork.

The Pen and Ink drawings...this was our favorite!

We also liked this miniature room that had the BIG Alice in it.

Outside Emily was able to draw on the Mad Hatters table, play croquet and a giant chess game.

The exhibit was cute and I loved that the drawings were at her level. We are looking forward to the next exhibit!

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Field Trip Friday!!

Our Trip to the Children's Museum of the East End

Today was a really rainy day so I told Emily I would take her to the Long Island Children's Museum, where we have a membership, however it turns out the museum was closed today for a special event. So instead we decided to take a little road trip in the rain to check out the Children's Museum of the East End. It was a much longer ride than I expected, about an hour and a half...I'm sure the rain didn't help, but it was a lot of fun!!

The museum has lots of hands on exhibits that deal with life and wildlife on the East End of Long Island. In addition there is a drop in art exhibit where Emily was able to paint with water colors and use clay and a get Active Exhibit, structures to climb and play on.

Here are some pictures from our trip:

What a great way to spend a rainy day!!

How do you like to spend your rainy days????

Unplugged Project ~ Transportation

Train Ride at the Museum

This weeks Unplugged Project was "Transportation" and Emily and I had fun exploring different kinds of transportation in some of the books we read and at the Long Island Children's Museum. Emily got to pretend to drive a Long Island Railroad Train and sit in an actual seat from the train. It was simple but she had a lot of fun!!

Emily driving the train

The outside of the train car exhibit

Field Trip Fun!!

Our Trip to the Long Island Children's Museum

We have a membership to the Long Island Children's Museum and Emily really enjoys going to explore all the different hands on exhibits. I wanted to take her to see the new Traveling Exhibit: Contraptions: A to Z for a while now, but have not gotten the chance until yesterday. I was so glad it was still there! Emily enjoyed turning all the different knobs, buttons and levers to make the contraptions work!

Here are some pictures from our trip.

We can't wait to go again!!