Richmond Children's Museum

We took the kids to the Children's Museum in Richmond today and they had a blast. It was a one story building that was much smaller than the Indianapolis Children's Museum, but it was all hands on and had plenty for the kids to do for the day. Joshua wanted to come back again the next day when we left. Joshua LOVED the car that he could play mechanic on and spent a great deal of time in this area of the museum. He could change a tire on a model car and pull on and off the muffler. He could "add" fluids to the radiator and change the filter. Taylor came over and got in on the fun as well. He was in seventh Heaven! They also had a real ambulance that the kids could walk inside and play in. He and Taylor both loved the air pump area where they could play with the valves and watch the handkerchiefs fly through the pipes from the air pressure being pushed through...that was at least 30 minutes of fun right there. Taylor enjoyed the outside in which they had instruments to play with and a sandy beach with toys. There was also a water play area outside, but we didn't bring a bathing suit and Taylor was disappointed about not being able to get all wet. They had an indoor river and canal that toy boats could flow through and both kids had a great time playing with. Taylor's favorite activity seemed to be the art workshop. This was by far the highlight of the museum. They had every texture of fabric, wall paper, ribbon and paper imaginable as well as all kinds of recycled plastics and egg cartons for the kids to use to create all kinds of things...let their imagination be the limit. Taylor had fun making a stained glass picture from tissue paper and glue on cardboard. She also made a bookmark with cloth and paper and had fun gluing different fabrics and papers onto a larger piece of paper. Joshua and Daddy created planes from paper and toilet paper cardboard. Quite creative those boys are!! We all had fun creating in the art workshop...and I got some fun ideas for the kids with our own Harding workshop that I'd like to create back home.