Chicago Children's Museum Part 2

Onto building snow forts and playing with "snowballs" I feel sorry for the people that had to build all of the cardboard snowflakes, but they were fun to stack and knock down! As you can see there were hundreds of them to play with!

Megan hiding behind her fort trying to throw snowballs at me! The snowballs were balls of yarn, fun to throw, but hard to aim. Megan thought they were fun.

Megan was very excited to "ice skate" in her socks. We talked about it when we were at home, so she more then ready to try and skate. They were very organized and had about 10 kids come on the "ice" at a time. They had to sit and listen to the rules so everyone had fun and no one got hurt.

Once they got used to "skating" all of the kids sat down and each of them had their turn to do whatever they wanted on the ice. As you can see Megan was just a little too young to understand this. But she still had a smile, so I guess that is all that matters :)

Megan was one of the smaller kids on the ice and she wanted me to come skate with her. But Mark was closer to the door, so she got to skate with her Daddy.

Just a little more skating, or running into other kids.

Just acting like a flower!

Digging for some dinosaur bones at the archaeological dig. They even had little vest and gloves for the kids to wear...so cute!

She found something! Actually she found a lot of things, but when she uncovered something, she would pick it up, look at it and say "It's just a bone." and throw it down. It was fun, but it was lunch time so we didn't dig for long.

After lunch we went back to the last few areas to find some more fun. It didn't take too long for Megan to realize that she could play in a huge room devoted to water! She put on a rain coat and was off to play with boats.

After playing in the river and adjusting the flow of the current, Mark and Megan pulled on some ropes to get the water wheel turning. Mark being Mark, found that if you just hold one rope for a long time the wheel will spin like crazy and send water flying everywhere! Notice I'm taking the picture from far away.

At the end of the water area, they had lots of different flowing water, buckets that could be moved and dumped by more ropes and lots of other fun things that could move water. You could even build your own fountain by connecting tubes in different directions. What a fun place, especially for a kids that love water!

Last stop was at a construction zone. Megan really liked filling the dump truck with bricks and then using the bricks to build a wall. I think by the time we left 95% of this wall was filled.

After making sure we stop at all of the areas that Megan could play in, it was time for us to go. Nap time was calling and the museum was starting to fill up with older kids. We highly recommend The Chicago Children's Museum as a must if you are in Chicago with any little ones. Great fun, can't wait to go back on our next trip!