Exploration Place Field Trip....aka - Family Fun Day!

So Teacher Jenny decided to take her homeschool class on a field trip. Exploration Place is a family hands-on science museum. All of the activites are designed for younger children to dive in and explore around with. I invited a chaperone (aka Daddy) to be our bus driver and parent helper for this field trip. He took a day off work to spend as a Family Fun Day and we were truly excited about that after him having to travel so much with work.

So off we went . . . .
by the way . . . . this was our first adventure in our new van - which was very exciting just by iteself! :)


First stop - a seesaw that played music! Pretty cool to these students!

Ellison always out to make a new friend - anywhere!!! I asked her if she wanted to come along on our adventure - I think she was a little overwhelmed at our school size!!!

This set of pictures is at a castle themed area where much fun was had. Here is Grady galloping away from the bad guys!
Master Hudson and Master Grady

Spring loaded sea horses kept Anders attention for awhile!!!

This gives you a better picture of part of the museum! Since we registered as a homeschool, we got in quite cheap for a family of our size!

Ellie played us some beautiful music!

At dinner Ryan and I asked the students what their favorite part of the museum was. This particular event got many, many votes. They called it a roller coaster and I was surprised at how much speed they could get on this wooden contraption!!! This "roller coaster" was in the toddler section, so my older ones were able to go pretty fast on it!

Trying to dig his was out of a nap!

Ellie's potato head creation! This was mommy's - err, I mean the teachers favorite part - to sit and play with all the Potato Head pieces!


For a family with the majority being boys - this part of the museum was a total hit! ALL of my boys love trains - we have an electric train - it just hasn't gotten set up here in KS yet! We are hoping to get her up and running soon! This electric train model was a set up of Wichita in some earlier year - perhaps the teacher should have read more about the train model! :)

The next set of pictures the kids got to go into a contraption of some sort and feel what it would be like to be in a tornado. They all enjoyed it and gave the teacher some great photo ops!

I had some "boys" in particular that really enjoyed the last section of the museum. The Flight Area. Of course, I lost my chaperone's help during most of it! :) Here is Ellie and Hudson flying a simulator of a hang glider.

We had a great time on our Family Fun Day / Field Trip!