Natural Museum Camp

Collin had a fantastic time being a Jr. Paleontologist all week at the Natural Science museum camp.  We enjoyed hearing every afternoon what he did that day.  Even if he was not too talkative, I knew what he did during the day because he was sent home with a list of that day's activities.  As I read them off, Collin would fill in the details and talk more than if I were to ask "What did you do at camp today?" 

Some of the activities:

• Scavenger hunt outside
• Visited the Paleontology Hall for two hunts/finds
• Built a flying Pterosaur
• Visited the Butterfly Center - this was Collin's favorite based on how much he talked about it
• Put together a Pterosaur skeleton
• Learned about dinosaur teeth
• Made a T. Rex tooth necklace
• Made a T. Rex tooth fossil mold
• Made an edible T. Rex tooth - that one did not make it home :)
• Went on a tour of the Energy Hall - he did not have much to day about this one
• Studied footprint forensics with a dinosaur track
• Made decorated plaster footprint casts
• Compared his feet to a T. Rex track
• Watched cosmic collisions at the Planetarium
• Sorted extinct and alive animals and plants
• Created scenes with dinosaur tracks
• Learned about dinosaur eggs and made his own egg
• Had a dinosaur excavation

The surprise was that he was not wiped out at the end of the day like I thought he would be.  He had the same amount of energy as he did when he came home from school.  I thought he would be more tired....for no reason...just hoping probably.