South Dakota Children's Museum

November 2010 (yes, still trying to catch up!)

In November, the kids and I headed to my parent's house for a few days. While we were there, we took the kids to the new South Dakota Children's Museum. The museum is located in my old elementary school and it was so neat to see what was left exactly the same as it had always been.

The kids had so much fun! I really was amazed at how wonderful it was. We have been to several Children's Museums that we have loved, but to be honest, I didn't think that this would be able to compete in our hearts with some that are located in bigger markets. I was waaay wrong, the museum was absolutely fantastic! (I also loved that there were at least three volunteers while we were there that were sanitizing all of the toys! That is something I have never seen in any other museum!)






















Lucy loved the large Lite Bright best!
Jack's favorite part was the full size dinosaur T-Rex outside. He talked about the dinosaur for weeks!
One thing I found great was that they left the front entryway the same as it had always been with trophy cases on the walls. In the cases, they have placed memorabilia from the school. They have several class pictures up and I was super surprised to see mine was one of them!











The water room was super cool. Jack had a lot of fun making a mess! We can't wait to go back again! I am so excited that we will have this great place to go every time we visit my family, even better is that our family membership to the St. Paul Children's Museum has reciprocity with this museum, so we get in for free!