The second weekend, we decided to make a day trip to the mecca of all things coloring related - the Crayola Experience. A little expensive, kind of a blatant marketing ploy, but the kids thoroughly enjoy coloring and they start charging kids at age two. We had to get in while we would only be charged for three people! Penny managed to find an attempt at an educational exhibit - here she is modeling being a photon of light. She was ricocheting from exhibit to exhibit throughout the day in the sheer delight of all the fun things she could make and do. Honestly, for the amount of craft activities in the place, it was a cheaper admission than the Children's Museum of Art in Manhattan. Paul could have spent the whole day at the coloring table - every color of crayon imaginable from metallics to fluorescents and an infinite supply of paper. He just kept coloring away while Penny went on the factory tour and any number of other activities. He's very fond of coloring, though perhaps his work doesn't resemble much to anyone else yet. Today he handed me a picture and told me it was Captain Hook's Mommy. Looks like the usual circles to me, but he had very specific intentions when he colored it.
We came away with lots of fun crayons and markers that the kids either made themselves or personalized. Here, Paul is pushing buttons to make his own marker. The inks actually blend together in the tube over time. At least, that's what we were told. The individual colors are still visible in the markers today and we went back in October. Zoe hit her limit by 3pm or so. The older two began to get cranky around 4pm, so we were all pretty much on the same page to head home for dinner. While Dad handled some diaper changes, Penny and I zipped through the exhibit halls using up the last of our tokens to procure art tools for later (another marker, a different color crayon, a few packs of clay). The exit was a little messy as they force you to go through the gift shop to get to the exit ramp. But strapping Paul into the stroller and Zoe to my chest made it at least doable to leave the building with the two of them while Dan went round to fetch the car from the metered parking a few blocks away. I was pretty pleased with how much fun they had and being able to get in and out as a day trip with minimal meltdown action. Penny was already talking about having her next birthday party here instead of back home. Sheesh! Planning the sixth birthday before she's had her fifth. What next?!
No comments:
Post a Comment