So my girlfriend Kimberly (who just moved-boo hoo) told us about this very cool hands-on kids' museum ... south of Hartford. It is THE best kept secret of Connecticut. The boys
loved it. Every nook and cranny of this place was converted into a kid space. Here are some examples... Above is Merrik on deck - steering the ship. AHOY, MATEY!
And Merrik in the igloo. There was a pulley thing in there where you could put these rubbery fish up in a bucket and someone on top could intercept them.
Here's Jonah with a basket of "fish" - getting ready to load them onto one of the many conveyor belts. (see the red & yellow fish hanging above his head?) There were all kids of places the kids could put the fish - like a working receiving dock or deck of a fishing boat or something. The magnetic fish would follow along conveyor belts and drop at the end into baskets or buckets for other kids to take to some other part of the "ship" & put them on another conveyor belt or something. Hard to describe but very cool &
very fun for the boys.
Here's Merrik putting the fish onto another conveyor belt that will take the fish up and across to the far side of the "ship".
A different view of the same conveyor belt Merrik was at in the pic just above this one. Here Jonah & Merrik are loading more fish on and they'll continue up above and across the beam at the top of the photo... then drop into a hug bin where the kids can pick them up again and take them somewhere else...
This was cool -- a HUGE electric train table. This one the kids could NOT play with but there were little peep holes/glass boxes that the kids could poke up from underneath and watch the trains going around. :)
Here's Merrik playing with one of his
favorite things -- a train table.
Jonah's climbing out of an underwater scene/tunnel.
Merrik (and mystery child) in the space ship!
Mr. Jonah at the wheel of an Oldie! Stay off the sidewalks!
And this was the big laugh of the day. When we first got to this museum, I asked Jonah to hang up his coat. Well he did - and his gloves, too!! (notice the gloves hanging nicely on their own hanger next his coat) LOL!!
So my girlfriend Kimberly (who just moved-boo hoo) told us about this very cool hands-on kids' museum ... south of Hartford. It is THE best kept secret of Connecticut. The boys loved it. Every nook and cranny of this place was converted into a kid space. Here are some examples... Above is Merrik on deck - steering the ship. AHOY, MATEY!
And Merrik in the igloo. There was a pulley thing in there where you could put these rubbery fish up in a bucket and someone on top could intercept them.
Here's Jonah with a basket of "fish" - getting ready to load them onto one of the many conveyor belts. (see the red & yellow fish hanging above his head?) There were all kids of places the kids could put the fish - like a working receiving dock or deck of a fishing boat or something. The magnetic fish would follow along conveyor belts and drop at the end into baskets or buckets for other kids to take to some other part of the "ship" & put them on another conveyor belt or something. Hard to describe but very cool & very fun for the boys.
Here's Merrik putting the fish onto another conveyor belt that will take the fish up and across to the far side of the "ship".
A different view of the same conveyor belt Merrik was at in the pic just above this one. Here Jonah & Merrik are loading more fish on and they'll continue up above and across the beam at the top of the photo... then drop into a hug bin where the kids can pick them up again and take them somewhere else...
This was cool -- a HUGE electric train table. This one the kids could NOT play with but there were little peep holes/glass boxes that the kids could poke up from underneath and watch the trains going around. :)
Here's Merrik playing with one of his favorite things -- a train table.
Jonah's climbing out of an underwater scene/tunnel.
Merrik (and mystery child) in the space ship!
Mr. Jonah at the wheel of an Oldie! Stay off the sidewalks!
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