Last Friday, Thanksgiving Point opened up their newest museum to the public. Tyler and Ashley happened to have no school that day, so we checked Alyssa out a little early and went to see it. The museum is a Butterfly Museum. We had something similar to this in Missouri that we went to a few times. This one had live bugs all over the place including gigantic spiders, beetles, stick bugs, and of course the butterflies.
There is a tarantula just to the right of Ashley
I love this picture. Camden's face perfectly portrays my feelings about these giant spiders.
There were also a lot of interactive exhibits. Here are the kids inside of a bug jar.
Tyler and Camden both built some bugs.
Camden in a cocoon.
The kids on top of a giant caterpillar.
Reading inside of a honeycomb.
And then there was the butterfly room. It was like 85 degrees and 95% humidity inside. We were all sweating within the first minute or two. But the butterflies were so fun to watch, and soooo big.
Waiting in line to get in.
There is a butterfly on one of the big green leaves over Tyler's head.
A close up.
This was definitely the kind of butterfly that was saw the most of.
The boys got done after awhile, but the girls wanted to stay inside and sit so that a butterfly could land on them. They were successful.
The boys had fun playing in the treehouse play area. There was a treehouse up high with a big red slide coming down from it. There were also some bug costumes to dress up in and some bug themed hand puppets.
It was a fun museum and the kids are excited to go back and explore some more. We did miss out on one thing that Ashley really wanted to do. There was an area where they bring out different bugs for the kids to hold. We'll have to try that out next time.
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Looks like a fun time
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