My mom (grandma) and the kid went on the train and then the tram to the Melbourne Museum. My son calls this 'the normal museum' to distinguish it from the 'scienceworks museum', in case there was any c0nfusion.
Getting information out of a 3.5 year-old boy is like pulling teeth and after the trip my mom was off in a hurry. This is what I gleaned:
- He liked the whacker dinosaur skeleton best. Having watched a bazillion episodes of dinosaur train I think he means some type of Ankylosaur with a bony club on its tail - the whacker if you will.
- He saw lot of old bones, some meat eaters must of eaten them and their blood. And they're 'stink' (extinct).
- He saw a koala 'just sitting with its burnt nose - he got burnt from a bushfire' and it 'had a bandage on top of its foot'. This was a koala that died in the awful 2009 Victorian bushfires. I think this might have upset him a little, seeing a koala with bandages on, but I hope a positive learning experience.
Mom bought a great kids dinosaur book with finger puppets in it. And a koala stamp/roller that makes little footprints (hopefully not all over the house...).
The activity book needed scissors and glue and I think my mom must have stopped to get some before getting on the train to go home. When I got home (they beat me by 15 mins - I was grocery shopping) they had assembled one of the finger puppets and he was really excited to show me.
One of the finger puppets:
Such a special day for my mom and the kid.
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