Rubber Ducky, You're the One!

The Children's Museum of Tacoma has gone totally "quackers"!  There are ducks EVERYWHERE!  Most of them yellow, to be sure, but there are also ones that light up pink or purple or green.  Being a hands-on kind of place, kids freely wander around with a duck (or two or three if they're the little ones) transporting them from the water play area to the climbing area, hiding them in various places throughout the museum.

I got to spend Wednesday morning with Jenny and her boys along with Brinley (and her parents and grandma).  It's a great place - just down the road in Tacoma, seriously right off the freeway - and while they do not charge admission, they gratefully accept donations.  It's not a huge place but it is all extremely "user friendly" and the kids LOVE IT!

First, after donning our aprons we played in the water:

Always someone nearby to show us the important
things: how to wash our ducky!

Great place to pick up chicks!

Then Jax and Brinley were off to play with the scarves and the pneumatic tubes:

While undisturbed, Shay practiced his Dr. Doolittle imitation of learning to talk to the ducks:

And then found an entire duck pond just waiting for a little boy to climb in:

And Brinley found some places to hide a few ducks!










Time to visit the crafting room:

Another apron?

That's what we need - a fresh sheet of paper!

Someone decided Brinley's hair needed a little highlighting!

Time for a little drawing...

And gluing!

 

A fun day with the kiddos!

~later, tw