Phoenix Children's Museum

Back in June, the Phoenix Children's Museum opened its doors. We have been meaning to go but never made it up there. Well we finally went yesterday and we were not disappointed. We went with my friend Nicole and her two kids Kelsey and Bennett. We all had a great time. The museum is housed by an old school house. Its 3 floors and very open and inviting. Its an old historic building in Phoenix. I loved how open it was and even though there were 3 buses in the parking lot and a bunch of cars it didn't feel overwhelmingly busy like the Everett Children's Museum did when it was busy. On the bottom floor they had a play area with the tubes that you can crawl through and these tubes that had air flowing through them. The kids all had fun putting balls and scarfs in to see where they would come out at. My favorite was the scarfs. I loved seeing them gracefully float to the ground.

On the second floor there was tricycles of all sizes and a car wash for the kids to drive through. They all had their favorite trike and of course there was never enough to go around. There was also an art room where the kids painted the house and made gingerbread men. Phedora also did some stamping and traced her hand print to put on the wall as the birds tail feather. I should have taken a picture of the bird but I didn't.

On the third floor there was a grocery store complete with the checkout isles and cash registers. Next door to that was the restaurant and the kids spent quite a bit of time in this room. They had 3 kitchen stations set up and a wood fire pizza oven. There was also a bunch of tables around the outside for the parents to sit at and be waited on. Nicole and I got a lot of food brought to us. I guess we looked hungry. Next door to the restaurant was a ball room. Very similar to the one in Everett. They had a little tree house that the bigger kids could climb into to let the balls roll. Outside of the ball room there was a car area. It was a couple of big race tracks with cars to let roll. The boys had a lot of fun in here. In the main area of the third floor there was a bunch of those pool noodles hanging from the ceiling. It was a little weird wandering through hundreds of pool noodles. You just didn't know where you were going to end up at and that was a little unsettling for me. Once you made it through it opened into a sitting area. The kids had a great time running through and trying to find each other. I think it would be pretty cool to have a room like this for the kids. Then have an open area in the back of the room for toys of some sort.

The kids are anxious to go back so I am sure we will be back soon. It was definitely worth the $9 a piece to get in. Plus we were there for 4 hours. On the way home Hayden started to fall asleep so I told him no please don't fall asleep. He said I'm too tired I cant stay awake. He made it home though and that was nice. There's no way I could have carried him into the house and he gets really mad when you wake him up.