Professor Pennypickle!

Emma & Sophia waiting to get into the museum
Chatting away
Emma & Sophia in the hot air balloon
Typing
Balancing the ball by adjusting the airflow
Cracker stackers
Peering through the periscopes
Perched on a turtle
The girls on the turtle

Today Emma & I spent the morning with our friends Erin & Sophia at Professor Pennypickle's Imagination Workshop! We had a lot of fun. I think the museum is technically geared towards slightly older children, but the girls still seemed to really enjoy it. The idea behind the museum is that it is supposed to be a house - the house of an absentminded old inventor named Professor Pennypickle who had to suddenly run out and left all his experiments running. So the kids can come in and play with all kinds of gears and pulleys, levers and switches. There was a hot air balloon basket with ropes to pull and release heat from the top, periscopes to see through the museum, pvc tubing that works as makeshift telephones, a blacklight maze, old fashioned typewriters, a music room, secret passageways to crawl through, and even a place where Emma & Sophia could build block towers & then hit a button to start an earthquake & see whose creation was the most seismically sound. Doesn't look like either one of them has a future in architecture! The biggest hit was probably the manipulatives room where the girls spent a long time playing with magnets and legos and the heat & electricity toys. It was a fun morning and we got some great pictures!