Adventurion

This spring we had a chance to visit Kids’ Station Children’s Museum in Plattsburgh, NY.

On the way to museum.

Dana had an exam which took two days, so we traveled to Plattsburgh twice with one week interval. I didn’t want to risk, so instead of driving back and forth the same day, we decided to stay in a hotel for a night. After a quick research I decided to book Best Western hotel. Breakfast was included, but the most important – it has a nice swimming pool. This was especially nice for the first stay, when we have been followed by heavy nonstop rain.

First day was not very excited. Thanks to the rain the only activity we (me and Maxim) enjoyed was the pool. The rest of the day we’ve spent shopping. I hate shopping in general, but with 5 years old this task becomes daunting.

The second day pleased us with beautiful weather and I was determined to escape shopping places at any cost 🙂 . After quick research I had a plan which included different activities, such as hiking, sight viewing and museum. After the breakfast we started with Kids’ Station Children’s Museum, and … we spent the whole day there 🙂 .

In the museum. Room 1.

I would probably not call it Museum, but Workshop. There are things to do for children of different ages and with different interests. Overall the place is not very big and consists of two rooms. Half of one room is allocated for the local robotics teams. The second half has lunch area, miniature castle, puppet theater, LEGO workshop with big LEGO demo station for inspirations, imagination playground and wooden construction kit – rigamajig.

Maxim loves theater play and of course he couldn’t skip the opportunity to become a knight

and to make an improvised puppet show

The next destination was LEGO workshop.

Even I couldn’t resist and made my own little house 🙂

We skipped the wooden construction set called rigamajig, but I can admit the ideas of what could be done with it were very appealing.

But imagination playground was so great, that Maxim made his size “house”.

Later other children joined us in a big imaginary construction zone.

More and more children were leaving and finally only Maxim and I stayed in the museum. We moved to the first room with the goal to discover what interesting could we make there. And there was a lot to do as well.

In the museum. Room 2.

Train station provided everything kids need to build railroads with different trains and wagons.

Kitchen allows children to have experience of how to be a good chef with oven, microwave and even dining table where guests (like me) could enjoy what the chef “cooked”.

Farmers’ market helped to experience the difficult work of vegetables’ seller with a lot of calculations. Luckily talking cash register helped a bit.

Plumber station was especially interesting. With a proper installation you could deliver a ball from one point to another. If you failed – the ball can stuck.

Doctor’s station was very important that day. In front of us were answers to all questions our mum had. It was so unfortunate we couldn’t call her and help.

Wind turbine can push items very high

There were many other stations, like construction workshop

Magnets station

We literally spent there the whole day (almost eight hours) and were not bored.

Tips

• Bring food. You will most likely spend the whole day there and there is a place to eat.
• Bring friends. It’s much more fun when children have friends to play with.
• Try to learn something. A lot of information to learn for kids of all ages.
• Join your kiddo. You will have fun too 🙂 .