My Quivers Full - Day of Fun

May. 1, 2008 - Day of Fun

We took a day out of our week off to do school. Yup, I'm a tough teacher. You see, Big Man (8) had a day to make up after being sick a few weeks ago. This is our scheduled week off. What do we need to do? An all day field trip of course! We always try to go to the Childrens Museum before the end of the schoolyear. I pick something we do there as school related, and we go in the middle of the week so it's quite empty. We've never gone into their Planetarium, so I picked this as it relates to our astronomy we've been doing for science. What did they have playing in the planetarium? Oh man, this is good!! "The Worlds of Star Wars". Oh yeah, they combined Star Wars (the biggest obsession around here these days) with astronomy. They showed the different planets created by the Star Wars teams for their movies, and compared them with the actual planets. My boys were over the top thrilled with the planetarium. They oooed and aahhhed all over the place when the lights went down and the stars went up. They were on the edge of their seats when they showed a part of the lightsaber fight between Obi Wan and Anniken. A huge hit all around. Once the movie ended, we went out the doors to find their small section of astronomy pictures. They were all things we've looked at thru our studies. I was very happy to find that they remembered quite a lot about these things pictured.

Now on to the "as long as we're here, we might as well make the most of it" part

My kids have two sections where they could easily spend the whole day. One is the huge pool ball contraption:

The place was quite empty, so they got to work together to keep the contraption going. It's soooo neat, I wish I could post a video so you could see it in action. Alas, I didn't have a video camera.

The other place is the Dino Dig:

I just love those funky goggles :)

I didn't get one of Big Man (8) because he spent quite a bit of time with the archeologist asking questions about the bones.

Here are some other highlights from our day:

Little Monkey (5) and Peanut (3) doing the magnetic dinosaur wall puzzle:

Ummm, Peanut, there's something coming up behind you!

Big Man likes the giant crocodile skeleton:

It was a really great day, and as always the time seemed to go by in a flash. We never get thru the whole museum in one day. If you live anywhere close to Indianapolis, you are really missing out if you don't head over to this museum!

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