DuPage Children's Museum

Last Wednesday Anabelle, Charlotte, and I met up with some friends to visit the DuPage Children's Museum in Naperville. I had been there many times before but it was a long time ago when I was teaching. I remember it being a great place to take kids,so I had been looking forward to taking Anabelle. We are only a 5 minute drive away and could even walk there if we wanted to. The admission price is $9.50 for ages 1-59. So after some thought we decided to just go ahead and get Anabelle a membership. It is $75 for a child membership and with that any 1 adult gets in free with her. Charlotte gets in free until she turns 1, after that it will probably be more cost effective to get a family membership which is $100. If you plan on going even a few times a year, it is worth it to just get the membership.  You can bring in your own food, which is always a good thing when you have toddlers-we were able to stop half way through and take a snack break. They have changed quite a few things since I had last been there, but everything is still great. They really have some fun activities and Anabelle is at the perfect age for almost all of the exhibits they have. Going there made me miss teaching a lot. They have all of the fun toys that you can afford when you have a classroom, but aren't really reasonable to buy when you have only 2 children. So I am glad that we will be going back and Anabelle and Charlotte will be able to experience some toys that we normally wouldn't play with.

In the instrument room with Angela, James and Andrew.

A huge light bright.

They have a large water play area.

Sophia in the wind tunnel.

Wow, it is really windy in here!

Snack time with James, such a happy guy!

They have a huge block area, Anabelle really liked this and spent a lot of time building.

They have a train exhibit right now, it is really fun. Andrew was VERY excited about it! They have a pretend train to ride in, a ticket window to purchase tickets, lots of train themed dress up, and a model train that you can watch.

Anabelle and James check out the mirrored tunnel.

We learned that Anabelle weighs more than Sophia, Angela had to help weigh her down on the teeter-totter.

Back for some more building.

Time for one more thing... a huge piece of plexiglass to hang colored shapes from.

What a fun day; thanks Angela, Andrew, Sophia, and James for going with us!