Crayon World

Sophie had an Activity Day gathering at Crayola Experience this week. I had to drop her off and pick her up, and it had been a long time since the rest of the kids had visited, so I offered to take anyone who was interested while Sophie was hanging out with the AD girls. Peter opted to stay home, but the other three wanted to go. Cooper was concerned that he was a little too old to enjoy the activity, but it was still fun.

We were only there for two hours, so we hit the highlights. Everyone remembered the interactive boat display that shows how the canal lock system works. I had always wondered why this was part of a crayon museum. I overheard one of the employees say that display was part of the original museum that existed in this space before Crayola took over in the 90s. She also said the building itself is roughly one hundred years old.

Upstairs we melted crayons into fun shapes and attempted to do spin art. Phoebe's paper got caught and ripped away to the edge of the machine, so the crayons melted onto the metal plate meant to hold the paper. She got a second try and it worked. She still loved the ripped version though.

There were several Kubota vehicles on display as part of a promotion. That meant we had to take several pictures with those vehicles.

We ran into Sophie and the other girls while Topher played on a giant indoor play structure. Topher latched onto the girls and followed them as they were playing. That was his favorite part of the day.

When we were done we had to hurry out to the van before our parking meter was up. We happened to park next to this fun bike rack. We had just enough time to take a quick picture. It was a nice end to our quick adventure.