We drove down to Las Vegas to visit Mike’s family last week, and while we were there we enjoyed visiting the new Discovery Children’s Museum in Las Vegas! I love a good children’s museum, and this one was great – one of the best I’ve seen, in fact! They had three floors full of hands-on activities, including invention stations where the kids could build flying machines and test them out and an arts and crafts area for painting and other creating. There is also a store, and a bank where kids can deposit paper checks into an ATM. The museum is very well-staffed, and everyone was very friendly.
Johnny was especially interested in this giant marble run! The wheels he is turning control the angles of the ramps. Very fun, active, visual learning! Mike’s cousin works there and invited us on her day off, so we got a private tour!
As fun as the museum was, the real highlight, of course, was spending time with Mike’s family! The kids thoroughly enjoyed their time with Gramma, Aunt L, their Great-Grandma, and Mike’s aunt and cousins! It was very fun to celebrate Mike, Anna, and Lily’s birthdays with family – and they had a repeat celebration with my brother and his family last night! I didn’t get a chance to make the cake Lily and I planned, so we may have a third celebration this week, just so we can make the cake! Maybe it will be an end of summer, back to school cake – the theme works for that, and we have to go back to school next week. I have really enjoyed our summer, and wish it weren’t ending so quickly!
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MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
Yay for fun museums!
We visited some amazing kids museums in Dallas this summer!
Great children’s museums are incredible!
I think the first paragraph is missing part of the last sentence.
I’m with you, I love a good children’s museum, they just make me happy.
Fixed it. Thanks for catching that!
Vi told me what cake she wants for her fast-approaching birthday, last night. Thank goodness for the internet because I’ve never made a honey banana cake with honey vanilla icing before… :) Hope you get to make Lily’s special request, and wow, I’d love to visit that museum!!!
;) Did they have slot machines?