Discovery Gateway

One of our first outings when we arrived in Salt Lake was to take all the children and all the cousins to the Children's Museum. We loved it. It is fairly new so everything was in great working order. It reminded me a little of Sci Trek in Atlanta, only way better. There were so many on-hands activities that the children could do and it offered learning moments for every age group. We definitely will be doing this adventure again in future vacations.

Easton had a blast playing in the ball center. There were so many gadgets, vacuums, chutes, tubes and interesting ways to move the balls around. Grandma watches as Kaitlyn experiences the balls.

Everyone got into the act as we worked together to create motion with the balls.
Easton got to climb a rock wall. He did awesome as he manuvered up the cliff. Easton does a little shopping. He loved going through the "real life" store shopping, working the register, and restocking the shelves.The older cousins used their creativity to create a claymation motion picture. They worked hard taking a bazillion photos to create their 3 second masterpiece!
Here is the finished Claymation product. Even though it's short, remember that it took a lot of working moving each piece and setting up the scene for the next shot.Creating parachutes out of muffin frills, cups, and pipe cleaners was so cool. There was a lot of experimenting to get the right combination of supplies so that your parachute was light enough to travel up the narrow wind tunnel. Some really went sailing and others just didn't move.This was a cool ball obsticle course. The kids had to arrange and rearrange the track so that the ball that was released would be guided into the hole at the bottom of the track. A lot of trial and error and the cousins were successful.