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What started as a day with the question “What are we doing today mummy?” turned into a “This was the best day ever. Let’s do it again tomorrow!” by the end of the day. And all because of my smart phone.

As soon as I heard that dreaded question, I whisked up my smart phone and punched in some of my favourite apps, hoping to find inspiration. And I did! We found out about the latest exhibition at our local museum and the fun activities planned in the kids area. All the information about this kids exhibition was found on the museum’s app. It helped me find the best times to take the children there, the best place to park and where to feed them.

Check out all the photos to see what a fun day this turned out to be!

Smiling as we found the perfect car park
Starting the day right because we found the perfect car park
First Stop - The Kids Kitchen
First Stop - The Kids Mobile Kitchen

 

Letting the kids make us some breakfast first!
Letting the kids make us some breakfast first! How much fun!

 

Next, the boys decided to mess up the nest
Next, the boys decided to mess up the nest

 

On to the museum
On to the museum. Giant colorful flowers!

 

Next stop - the giant balloon room
Next stop - the giant balloon room. Unfortunately, we were not allowed to touch these!
But this is completely hands on! In the sticker room!
We were allowed to touch these! The sticker room! Everything was fair game. Stickers were everywhere!

We used our phone for navigation, for finding the closest park, and then to find the best kids eatery around afterwards. Of course, we then used the phone to capture our precious moments through out the day. We cannot live without it!

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I’ve shared a few in the past, including this phases of the moon flip book and a project about coding the phases of the moon. 

Check out some cool pictures of our moon, other moons, and what it might be like to live and work on the moon with these images from NASA. And you can learn about the moon landing from National Geographic Kids.

Learn about the phases of the moon and do these dot-to-dot worksheets for the different phases from Kids Activities Blog. I also love this homemade moon phases puzzle form What We Do All Day.

I Can Teach My Child has a fun experiment illustrating why there are craters on the moon, made with “moon dough” (flour and baby oil). Or you can make a clay moon and give it craters with this activity from Gift of Curiosity. 

There are lots of fun ways to make moon rocks, including this dough and glitter version from Kids Activities Blog and fizzing moon rocks from Little Bins for Little Hands. 

Speaking of fizzy science, Montessori from the Heart has a fun moon craft project that’s made with baking soda, vinegar and glitter. So you can talk about the acid/base reaction and learn about the moon at the same time you make a cool piece of art. 

Or make this fun aluminum foil moon from Mom Brite.

Cinta and Co. has a cute phases of the moon art project and information you can download about the phases of the moon. 

And of course you’ll probably want to make the classic Oreo moon phases craft/snack, which you can find at Teach Mama if you don’t know it already.

Add in some books about the moon (The Moon Book is a great one), a sensory bin with moon sand and astronaut characters, maybe a little walking with big steps like you’d take on the moon (and a discussion of why they walk like that) and your moon day will be complete!

 

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