Sacramento Children's Museum

For those of you in the area looking for an activity during the holiday break, I highly recommend the Sacramento Children's Museum.  We visited the day after Thanksgiving and had a blast.  We arrived as they opened and had the place to ourselves for almost half an hour. The kids LOVED it and happily spent the morning there playing, and painting. I loved that the activities seemed to be very simple by design but were extremely entertaining to the little ones.

The kids literally spent the majority of their time at the "Airways" station.  They could not get enough!

They also loved the art studio.  What a great idea this was!  I would love to have a wall like this in the playroom.  It could be a huge mess but what fun they would have!

There were even dress-up stations, and markets, and a post office.  The girls had their names printed on a package and Lauren delivered mail throughout the museum.  Once Lauren transformed herself into a police officer, she didn't want to take off the uniform.  I had to convince her to give the other kids a chance.  She just liked being a police officer. 

Last but not least, they had water stations with all kinds of water toys.  I managed to get Jacob into a waterproof smock although it didn't do much good as I caught him trying to climb into the water.  He managed to get his whole right foot in the pool before I could grab him.  Overall, it was a great time and we'll definitely be going back again soon!