Today B&L and I went to a new children's museum that opened in April in Wilmington, Delaware. The kids had a great time -- we spent a whopping three hours there, including a break for our packed lunches. The museum has a water play station like the one at the Please Touch Museum, but otherwise, the two museums offer different exhibits, some of which would be of interest to older children. In one exhibit about money and banking, the kids had fun opening safety deposit boxes to see what treasures lie inside (jewels, coins, medals, a title to a house, etc.) I asked Luke what treasures he'd put in a safety deposit box, and his answer, predictably, was "[Matchbox] cars." Bryn had a blast acting as a bank teller who used a pneumatic tube to send a capsule through a clear plastic pipeline that ran up along the ceiling and then down to a "customer" using the bank's drive-thru. In another exhibit about the body, Bryn and Luke tested how long they could hang from a chin up bar, tested their reaction time, scaled a rock climbing wall, and rowed in front of TV screens simulating a sculler's experience on a river. After viewing these two clips, I think you'll agree that we may very well have a rowing legacy in the family.
In this exhibit, the kids diligently colored paper butterflies and then released -- and reclaimed -- them in an air tunnel.
Finally, we made pinwheels out of origami paper, brads, and straws.
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