When I got the email newsletter from our moms’ group from church the other day, there was a blurb about a new fun place to take your kids called Museum 4 Me. It is the brainchild of a former elementary school teacher turned stay-at-home mom turned entrepreneur.
I was really intrigued after looking around the website and wanted to take Little Guy to check it out, so we went there today with my friend Stacey and her youngest son, who is 3 1/2. The boys had a blast – we were there for 2 hours and both of them would have played happily for another hour at least!
The museum takes up the lower level of a house and has several different areas of hands-on play for the kids. The room you first walk into changes each month and right now is set up like a backyard, complete with a planting area and playhouse. Next there is an area with a couple of tables where you could eat food you bring in or snacks you buy there, along with a few items for sale.
The intended age is birth to 6, but older siblings are welcome and would probably enjoy playing with the younger children. One area that older kids may like is an art area with all sorts of different craft supplies – both of our boys chose to paint pictures. LG painted “A Sunny Day”, and I have to tell you I was amazed that he was able to easily come up with an idea and execute it, using several different colors of paint in distinct areas of the paper – I am getting emotional just realizing what giving him this extra year of preschool so he could be in a typical environment and allow his skills to develop has produced.
The biggest room is filled with several different exhibits – a construction area, treehouse, post office, store, kitchen area with dolls, building blocks, and an area with mats and soft climbing blocks for the littlest ones. The favorites with our two were by far the post office and the treehouse, although they investigated each one thoroughly and spent some time in almost all of them.
It was a wonderful way to spend a rainy Friday afternoon and I’m sure we will go back again. The maximum occupancy is 50, and I can imagine that it might be a little overwhelming for the Little Guy with a lot of kids there. Of course, if we ever get there and it is too crowded, we would easily be able to see that before we went in and he could decide whether we should do something different that day.
All things considered, I would highly recommend a visit if you have young ones at home. They are having a Grand Opening event on March 29th with a circus theme, special activities and half-price admission (it is usually $5 per person – 12 months and younger are free).
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Glad to read your post. As this is practically in my back yard, and you know my boys… I am definitely planning on visiting!
That sounds so fun. We will definitely have to check it out!!
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