Childrens Museum of the Desert - Palm Springs

Children's museum of the Desert is near Palm Springs, California. There are tons of activities for kids here.

It's a fantastic museum. My 4 year old loved it!  We spent 3 hours there and he still did not want to leave.




Yes, he's painting a real car!







There were many pretend play areas.

Children's Museum of Atlanta

We were only in Atlanta, Georgia for two days, which I thought wouldn't be enough time to do much of anything. I couldn't have been more wrong. There's so much to do in Atlanta. The first thing we did was the Children's Museum of Atlanta.

I thought the children's museum was great. I believe it is for children 8 and younger and you have to pay for anyone 2 years old and up. We got a military discount for all of us which made it $9 something each. We were there for less than three hours which was plenty of time for us.

This is an area where kids can work together to move blocks around.

Here the kids directed wind to make the windmills move.


Farming area





Water play is always a huge hit with kids and the Atlanta Children's museum has a large water play section.


They offer live shows with science experiments, like how to make cotton candy.

An elaborate ball area


A train area and more.


There were also a few areas where the kids could climb and slide.

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Portland Children's Museum

After hearing a variety of things about the Portland Children's Museum we finally tried it out for ourselves.  To be honest I had low expectations, but quickly realized I had heard wrong.  I thought the whole place was fantastic and regretted not getting over there sooner. I thought each room was really well laid out so that it didn't seem too crowed, even though there were tons of people there that day. They have a baby room, water room, digging room, music room and more. They had a few live shows going on while we were there. I practically dragged my children out of there!


I noticed on their website that they have art classes for children 2 - 12 and they also have a variety of camps. For more info click here.

Portland

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