Local Museum (and Pizza) Love

Having two children that are under the age of four and living in Ohio, where weather is always changing, a mom needs an arsenal of “go to” places. Because let’s face, I’ve said it before, I CAN NOT handle being cooped up with the boys all day long. And the boys rather get out and go anyway. We all know what can happen when those two are confined to the house!

Fortunately for us, we have an arsenal of wonderful, educational, explorational (okay you get my drift) children friendly places to go. Not one too just drop your kids off and think you have some time to relax. But really use to get down and involved in your child’s learning. But the rant associated with that statement is for another time and another post.

One of our very favorite places to go is the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery. I have been to a lot of children’s museums (you know, in my “teaching” days and I’m one of those weird people that like to visit children’s museums when we travel, even before kids). And Boonshoft rivals any of the ones I have been too.

Last year, my mother-in-law purchased a family membership for us, which we decided to upgrade to the “Adventurer” membership. The family membership pays for itself in about 3 visits. So it was a no-brainer when she asked to purchase it for us. But with the Adventurer membership, I can get in free at the Cincinnati Museum Center and half off at the Columbus Zoo. Plus many other museums and zoos within the state AND out of state. Last year, we must have saved couple hundred dollars, at least, with our membership. So when it was time to renew our membership, there was no second guessing!

I told you, I keep those boys busy outside the home !!

{In my “teacher” voice} If you are a parent, I would urge you to check out your local museums. And if you are a Miami Valley parent, you definitely need to get yourself an Adventurer Membership from the Boonshoft.

As I mentioned above, we go to Boonshoft quite frequently. About once a month. I would go more often, but I don’t want the kids to get “burned out”. This way, each time we go, they have some what forgotten about all the different activities.

So when we were invited to come and play at the new Cassanos Pizza exhibit, I was game. But actually we were there just a week before and the kids LOVED it! But this time, the boys got to hang out with some of their friends and eat Cassanos Pizza. YUMMY!!! Who could say no??

What I love about Boonshoft, is that they are always implementing new exhibits and updating old ones. And the Cassanos Pizza exhibit is a perfect exploration of a LOCAL business.

My boys LOVED taking orders:

They loved making the pizzas:

They loved delivering the Pizzas:

The loved “eating” the pizzas:

They really LOVED eating the pizza that was brought for us for the special occasion (pizza not included at Boonshoft) ! Hello, all that playing made these preschoolers HUNGRY!

You can tell, that a lot of thought and planning went into this exhibit. Educationally speaking two things stood out to me.

1. It teaches children processes and order.
2. HELLO – look at these AWESOME pizzas with FRACTIONS- you know I couldn’t resist putting in a math plug. And yes, everyone there heard me rave about these . It’s just the little things:

As you can see, we had a great time! Thank you to Boonshoft and Cassanos for putting on such a fun and yummy event!

Are you taking advantage of your local museums??

Disclaimer: We were invited to attend this exhibit free of charge (but you know I ALREADY have a membership because I LOVE Boonshoft) and were treated to some yummy Cassanos pizza after some hard playing. ALL views and opinions are my own.