Family Fun Day

Where can you go to pet a baby alpaca, glue a mosaic on a community planter, paint a car, and do awesome crafts all in one afternoon?  If you guessed the annual Family Fun Day at the Living Arts and Science Center, then you'd be right.  It was our first time attending this event and we had a blast!  First on the list of things to do was pet the baby alpaca, Samuel.  He was much softer than we were expecting.

Next stop: car painting.

I thought Madeline would have been much more excited about making a mosaic on the planter. They were both pretty quick to move on to the next activity.

After doing some of the outside activities, we headed inside the center.  There were multiple rooms and each one had a different theme.  The first one was all about animals.  Travis was mesmerized by the fish tank and Madeline thought the macaw's screaming was much too loud.  It really was. There were a lot of interesting animal materials and facts to explore in this room.

Here she is trying on bug goggles.  I can't help but laugh at this picture!  I tried to take another where her eyes looked even more bugged out, but it didn't turn out too well.

The kids sculpted animals to add to the clay community.  Maddie made pinky bunny and Travis made a snake with extremely large bumps on it.

Before heading back outside to paint the car some more, they made their own kites.  This was easy and fun, and we'll definitely be making more.  Travis got really excited when his buddy, Paxton, walked into the room.   (I swear Madeline's eye doesn't look as bad in person as it does in this picture.  She banged it on the edge of a table over a week ago.)

Now to test them out.  The only way to really get the kites flying was to run with them since the wind was too sporadic.

All in all, it was a really great time, the kids had a blast, and we're already looking forward to next years Family Fun Day.