After he finished blending the yellow and orange together, he carefully applied several strokes of black paint. Voila! The man had magically transformed my daughter's face into an African savannah landscape complete with a cheetah, a lion, a giraffe, an…
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Sculpture Exploration Backpack at the Hofstra University Museum
The 5 children made a few wrong turns as they interpreted the map and raced across the college campus in pursuit of the statues. Finally, they spotted something hiding among the shrubs - 2 smiling lions were staring at them!…
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The Conservators’ Center (Caswell County, NC)
As we entered the secured, gated area, we could hear a loud rumbling "Aaroo! Aaroo!" in the distance. Our guide, John David, explained that we were hearing the roar of a male lion! This was our introduction to the carnivorous…
Indoor Archery League
There were more than 40 kids between the ages of 7 and 17 assembled. All of them had a hungry, gleam in their eyes as they got ready to shoot with bows and arrows. This has become a regular sight…
The Discovery Room at the American Museum of Natural History
One moment my 7 and 10-year-old daughters were zoologists searching an African baobab tree for birds, snakes, and bats; then they were paleontologists excavating dinosaur eggs and assembling a Prestosuchos skeleton; and the next thing I knew they were anthropologists…
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The High Line
As we turned the corner, we caught a glimpse of an enormous white flower in the tree. All of us wondered what could it possibly be? Then we saw more of them in several trees. Luckily, the High Line had…
The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
My 8-year-old-daughter put the marshmallows in the bell jar and turned on the pump to suck out all of the air and create a vacuum. The marshmallows began to expand. Then when she turned off the pump, the marshmallows appeared…
St. Louis – A City With Engaging Free Attractions
As we turned the corner, we caught a glimpse of the baby. She was fuzzy, gray, and had the cutest little trunk! This was the first time we had ever seen a baby elephant. Priya was with her mother and…
St. Louis’ World Aquarium
String beans?!? Really? Okay, my daughter took a string bean out of the bowl and eagerly held it up for the 2-toed sloth to eat. The sloth inquisitively looked at her and the string bean before nibbling the vegetable. We…
4 Enriching Days in Chicago
"It's an hour-long wait from here," said the attendant. Yikes! Thankfully when we showed her our Chicago CityPASS vouchers, she ushered us to a separate Fast Pass lane and in less than 10 minutes we were 103 floors up on…
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