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Picnics, Chocolate, and Airplanes.

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The second day of Nick being gone we drove down to visit with friends and explore their ranch they run.

They have hiking trails, beavers, and lots of space so it worked great!

We even got to see wild hog prints on our hike!

And I only got us a little lost…

They were actually really excited to have a picnic but eating faces are always awkward.

HA

Meanwhile, Nick was working and taking pics of stuff like this!

On Wednesday, two of my friends took four of my kids and one of my daughters and I got to run around to stores on a mommy daughter date!

We found a bunch of Vegan chocolate at Sprouts!

On Thursday one of my same friends took one of the twins while I took the other four to the Tulsa Air & Space Museum!We have a membership there that expires this month so I wanted to be sure and use it.

The only complaint I have about this place is there is no scavenger hunt or anything like that to help my kids explore the whole museum.

They basically just want to check out the hands on exhibits and then they are done.

We can spend a lot of time exploring even a tiny museum if there is a scavenger hunt type setup there.

Sometimes I will just buy postcards at the gift shops beforehand and have my kids find the thing on the card.

I kept meaning to put some time into making a scavenger hunt for here but never got around to it.

They spent most of their time up in the kids area playing the drone flight simulator games.

I am thankful we year round school so I can take a week off when needed.

Our official week off landed on the next week(this week) but we just did it while Nick was gone to make things easier.

Do you have any tricks to make museums more interesting for kids?

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Tulsa Air and Space Museum (TASM) ~Tulsa, OK

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We ended up buying a membership to the Tulsa Air and Space Museum because memberships usually make more sense than paying what it costs for our large family to go once.

I am glad we did because part of the museum was not open.

It would have been really annoying if we did not have the option to come back anyway because it is a really small museum so part of it being closed is a bigger deal than if it was a larger one.


That being said, the staff in the museum were amazing.

They had so much knowledge and shared it over and over with my kids!

 

They would just finish explaining something to one set of my kids and then turn around and do the same with next set.

Sometimes doing the same thing three times.

And he treated even my littlest like they could do it.

Although it is a small museum there are several hands-on things to do.

He helped them to “land” this hot air balloon.

You stand inside a hot air balloon basket and have to pull the ropes at the right time to land on a bullseye.

There is a small kids area upstairs.

This is the look she gets every time I take too many pics of her.

They have a really nice planetarium also and the show was pretty good.

They ended up adding some stuff to the show and it got a bit long for some of mine.

I also get motion sick from those shows.

Ha

I am excited about going back when we are studying about the Space Race next month!

I am actually happy we went before we started our study as well.

I have found that if you introduce a subject in a fun way before you study it, kids have an easier time learning about it.

How do you get your kids interested in subjects?