Friday, September 2, 2011

Sacramento Children's Museum

On Wednesday, it was the first day since Molly started kindergarten that I didn't have something on calendar. It also just happened to be a week after the grand opening of the brand new Sacramento Children's Museum. So I decided to take Garrett and Paige and go check it out! We also me their little friends Oliver, Jadis and Isaac there (although I only got a picture of Oliver).


I have to say that I was totally impressed with the Children's Museum. It wasn't huge in size, but there was a great diversity of things for the kids to do. Garrett's favorite area was definitely the one where he got to run balls down a variety of ramps. He literally spent a half hour playing here.


Paige's favorite part was the pretend play areas. First she went grocery shopping at the store...


... then she enjoyed being a mother of twins...


... and then she decided SHE was the baby and made herself a little bed in a crib.


They also had a variety of dress-up clothes for kids of all ages. My kids liked the animal costumes in the toddler area. Here's Paige as a fuzzy ducky, and Garrett after he came down with Mad Cow Disease.


There was also a cool water play area, with fountains and water wheels and things that float. Paige wasn't big on getting her hands wet, but Garrett was all over it.


There was also an art area with several projects that the kids could work on. Paige really got into the fact that they could paint on a big plexiglass wall and Garrett enjoyed coloring.



It was a really cool place and I have already dropped a hint to my sister Michelle that the kids would love an annual membership for Christmas. She agreed so I took the opportunity to that up while I was there!

2 comments:

Todd and Michelle said...

I totally for the annual pass! I'll send you the Christmas money early and then when you run into other items that the kids may want/need - you can just pick them up.

Orange Peanut said...

We really enjoy the Children's Museum as well!! Fun things to do there!