Children's Museum Houston

One of our first days here in Houston we went to the museum and bought an annual pass.  It became our go to place for our summer days. We probably went to the museum 10 times in the two weeks before school started. It is a happy place for Calvin and when Calvin's happy I'm happy. Calvin is mostly old enough to play by himself and wander around which is nice. He met lots of new kids and overall it was a great experience for him. The girls are happy anywhere and everywhere so it worked well for them too.

The favorite spot in the museum for the kids is Kid City. The kids can get jobs at the various places (bank, grocery store, pet hospital, ambulance, restaurant) and earn money doing work. When they take a pay check they can put it on their ATM card.  Calvin loves his ATM card! It is now almost November and he has been holding on to the same ATM card since we first got here in August. His card has $7000 on it. When you start off the cards have $20 .Most kids will get a one or a few hundred dollars.
Lexey at the restaurant being my server.

Clare working as a cashier.

Jo is shopping

Calvin at the ATM ...he has spent many hours here!

There are lots of super heroes at the museum.

There is a spot in the museum that you can paint faces .. the kids love to be kitty cats!  Also there is a place where the kids do experiments. The girls have done a few. It is really neat.

Calvin working at the bank

Calvin working the register.

Downstairs in the museum you can build lego cars and race them. Jo made a car with no wheels and hers won every time! So funny. The other kids were all trying really hard to find decent wheels. There weren't many good ones which is why Jo's no wheel car worked just great compared to the others.

 Lexey decided to copy and tried a no wheels car too!

 We love to paint!

These are some of our favorites things to do. The girls also love doing the rock wall downstairs. 

One thing I didn't get pictures of but really like is building rockets out of paper and launching them or building flying things and putting them in the air tunnel.  Lots to do!  We still have a couple of areas of the museum we haven't explored yet.