We made our third annual visit to the Creative Discovery Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee right after our field trip to the Ch. 9 Science Theater (see previous post). [Thank you, Rome library...our kids go free every year courtesy of the library's summer reading program!]
The first "zone" is a fun-filled water area, where kids can shoot sprays of water at targets, etc. Obviously Stephen enjoyed that. Junior enjoyed building with blocks. He has a great way of seeing things in 3D and building them.
Syndi enjoyed playing with this device, which balances a ball on a current of air. Of course, for her purposes, the ball was her head!
Stevie...
...Junior...
...
Syndi...
...Sylvia...
...and Jon all enjoyed playing with this lightning generator.
Stephen
loved playing with the clay.
Junior was an engineer of a different sort-the train engineer.
Syndi and Jon had fun with this set of pipes. Magnets held them to the wall, and you could make a path for a golf ball to travel down. We made a "Y" and figured out how to put the ball in just right to make it go down the tube we chose (at the Y). It was fun.
Stevie chose to use the ball (and
not his head) for this device.
Junior peeking from a maze area. Think he was having fun?
This "Rube G
oldberg" device is fun each year. It uses a skate to push a basketball up a channel to a kiddie swimming pool. The oars then push it up to the hole at the top. It then rolls across a path, falls through a basketball hoop, drops through the chute, and lands in the laundry basket, all for 2 points!
On the roof are some neat mechanical advantage devices that allow you to use your weight (some of us more than others) to move a ball up a corkscrew...
...lift your own weight to the top...
...and ring a bell when you reach the summit.
We closed our visit back at the water area, which we left early for a special "art studio class" for the boys.
Syndi and Junior dressed up like sailors before we hit the road. All aboard! This ship is leaving port!
Back at the hotel, everybody crashed. The next morning,
Syndi was up to work in her leap pad.
But the boys were sound asleep! They needed the extra winks for our trip up Lookout Mountain! Stay tuned....
We made our third annual visit to the Creative Discovery Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee right after our field trip to the Ch. 9 Science Theater (see previous post). [Thank you, Rome library...our kids go free every year courtesy of the library's summer reading program!]
The first "zone" is a fun-filled water area, where kids can shoot sprays of water at targets, etc. Obviously Stephen enjoyed that. Junior enjoyed building with blocks. He has a great way of seeing things in 3D and building them.
Syndi enjoyed playing with this device, which balances a ball on a current of air. Of course, for her purposes, the ball was her head!
Stevie...
...Junior...
...Syndi...
...Sylvia...
...and Jon all enjoyed playing with this lightning generator.
Stephen loved playing with the clay.
Junior was an engineer of a different sort-the train engineer.
Syndi and Jon had fun with this set of pipes. Magnets held them to the wall, and you could make a path for a golf ball to travel down. We made a "Y" and figured out how to put the ball in just right to make it go down the tube we chose (at the Y). It was fun.
Stevie chose to use the ball (and not his head) for this device.
Junior peeking from a maze area. Think he was having fun?
This "Rube Goldberg" device is fun each year. It uses a skate to push a basketball up a channel to a kiddie swimming pool. The oars then push it up to the hole at the top. It then rolls across a path, falls through a basketball hoop, drops through the chute, and lands in the laundry basket, all for 2 points!
On the roof are some neat mechanical advantage devices that allow you to use your weight (some of us more than others) to move a ball up a corkscrew...
...lift your own weight to the top...
...and ring a bell when you reach the summit.
We closed our visit back at the water area, which we left early for a special "art studio class" for the boys.
Syndi and Junior dressed up like sailors before we hit the road. All aboard! This ship is leaving port!
Back at the hotel, everybody crashed. The next morning, Syndi was up to work in her leap pad.
But the boys were sound asleep! They needed the extra winks for our trip up Lookout Mountain! Stay tuned....
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