Monday, February 22, 2010

California Rewind: The New Childrens' Museum

We went to the New Children's Museum today with our good friends Shannon and Torryn. They have this awesome balloon art exhibit that I was dying to see. Shannon had just bought a membership and treated us to her free guest passes - THANK YOU SHANNON! What an awesome museum. 3 floors of exploring, crafts, exhibits, hands on messy stuff for kid-lets to play with.

Hanging from the ceiling were some of the balloon art work. Wow. These pictures don't do it justice. They were made out of the balloons that circus clowns use to make nifty little animals. The colors were amazing, and I couldn't stop looking at them.
Downstairs, they had a jumpey house (rainbow tunnel), that Shannon tells me, was a different jumpey house than the one the museum had at their last visit. Hannah and Torryn had a blast jumping around in it.
They also had these well-loved felt houses that Hannah liked to crawl in.
They also had these nifty art easels. Hannah sat right down and started drawing...something she does a lot of at home.
Torryn started to draw too. Doesn't she have the most amazing hair for a 2 year old??
Shannon sat down and started drawing with Torryn too (mostly to keep her in one place for me to take a picture or two). I love how this one turned out. The light on their hair was amazing.
Hannah found some building blocks to play with. She is getting good at building towers.
We went outside and found a bubble exhibit. The wands were made out of pipe cleaners. The girls would dip them in the little rainbow bowls of soap and blow huge bubbles. It wasn't long though, before they forgot about the pipe cleaners and started to use their hands.


Hannah found a craft table, and sat down to make a craft. She did well listening to instructions. I was impressed.
Finally, (Mommy's absolute favorite moment from the whole day) one of the museum staffers came out wearing one of the big balloon masterpieces. He walked around and giggled when the kids would tickle him. He spun around and the little pink balloons would tickle the kids. Hannah saw him coming and dove into one of the felt houses. He bent right down and went after her.
Can't catch me!
I had to get a picture of him. What a fun job!!!

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