Children's Museum of the Arts

Almost every day Claire says, "I want to do something fun today." By "fun" she does not mean something in our house. That's not fun in her opinion. So, today, we decided to do something fun and went into Manhattan to the Children's Museum of the Arts. It is a small museum with lots of hands-on art activities.

Claire loved using colored pencils, chalk and watercolor paints to create masterpieces. She also sculpted some playdough and made a mobile out of recycled paper and pipe cleaners (When I held up a pipe cleaner and asked her what it was called, at first she said "windshield wipers" then said "clean pipers.").

She also enjoyed playing with a big glob of Flubber and was careful not to get it in her hair or on her clothes.

When asked what her favorite part of the museum was, she said, "The whole thing!!" Personally, I think it was the ball pond, an enclosed area filled with lots of giant yoga balls. She spent quite a lot of time swimming around in the ball pond.

After two hours of "fun," we left the city to beat the rush hour traffic and went straight to Fornos for a delicious, fancy lunch.