After a fun filled day on Day 1, we decided to stick with it and head out for another fun kids adventure. We spent Day 2 at The Magic House. This is a 3 story house that has been converted to a huge display of physics and other physical sciences. My favorite memories were the reaction time testers, the Touch Tunnel, the Shadow Wall, Robotic Arm-well, I loved it all! Again, much has changed here as well since I was last there, although I think I was in college the last time I visited here. In some ways though it changed for the better. There was a much larger play area for little ones, which Little TD loved. His favorite part was the fishing pond. They have a little pond with magnetic fishing poles and when you catch a fish, you deposit it upstream and follow it through glass in the floor all the way back to the pond. Awesome game for a little boy! The other cool thing was a water play table. It's really hard to explain, but they had fun things to do to show surface tension, how to direct water flow, flow through pipes and other cool stuff for us engineer types. The rest of the little ones play area was very similar to the Childrens Museum in Houston, which my kiddos love.
The Second story held much of what I remembered. There we found the color blindness charts, which in explaining it to Princess TD, I gathered an audience of other girls from a school group listening to what I was saying and asking why they couldn't see the numbers that color blind folks would see. We looked through the optic lenses and smelled the hidden scents (they haven't changed at all). Princess TD tried to wrap herself in a bubble, she was able to get it to her knees before it popped. We played in the Shadow Wall room and then Princess TD tried to race in a wheelchair. She did pretty well, I think she went 0.25 miles in 30 seconds.
Next we went up to the third floor. We played in the magnet room attaching metal pans to a magnetic wall. We then moved to the line for the electrostatic generator. The first time Princess TD got her hair to stand up, but she took her hand off before we could get a picture. The second time, I joined her, but I was too hot for my hair to stand up, but we got the picture anyway. We played a little bit with the pneumatic mover and explained how the bank drive through machines work. She really enjoyed that and made a new friend in the process. Unfortunately, the 3-story slide was closed. I sure hope they open it back up, that was the most fun way to get down from the top!
Currently they are expanding the Magic House, so we will have to make a return trip there. It was fun and reminded me why I love science! Here are a few pics from this day!
My favorite fact: The average 4 year old asks 437 questions a day!
3 comments:
So, since your children are NOT AVERAGE....should you multiply that fact times 2? Looks like fun! I wish I could have been there!
consider yourself added:) I do have your pen, and I love it by the way!! We need to meet up again soon, I miss our times. Hope all is well.
character,
See, in my mind, I think it should be times 4...my 2 not average kids who ask roughly 1000 questions a day, each! And people wonder why I am always exhausted...
edens family,
Yay! I am so glad you have my pen...I thought I lost it! It is a pretty awesome pen. I miss it!
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