Saturday, March 26, 2011

Seattle

Lots of hands on experiments

Optical Illusion...is Rees floating?

Butterfly Cocoons


Creating our Harmnograph piece

Our Artwork


I took the kids into Seattle yesterday.  We went to the Pacific Science Center.  However the tickets for the planetarium part was sold out...too bad, that was something I really wanted to take the kids to see.  Anyway we had a blast!  It was very hands on.  We saw an insect exhibit, there are some truly gross big bugs in this world.  I have to say that I am glad I don't live in some of those places having to deal with those bugs.  There was also a butterfly house that we went into...that was very cool.  All the butterflies just fly around you, we watched them eating...using their long tongues and seeing that up close was fascinating.  We also saw all the different cocoons.  There were sections on the body, water, dinosaurs, space, a tide pool, and reptiles.  One of our favorite activities was taking a piece of paper and putting it on this machine called a harmnograph...its like a Spirograph, you swing it around and place a pen in and it designs a picture on the paper...we were very proud of our creation.
After we went to look at the Space Needle, just look...the kids don't like heights so we didn't go up to the top, maybe next time.

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