Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Kris Kringle's Inventionasium

The day after Justin finished his boards exam, we went to Kris Kringle's Inventionasium. It was SO CUTE!! And of course, the kids loved it. We were greeted by Miss Raspberry Hiccup who told us what we would be doing on our tour and gave all of the kids little lab coats to wear.
First the kids wrote down all of their ideas on the idea wall with chalk. The elf with the purple hair was our tour guide.



Then they all got to make their own puppet. There was buckets of different arms, legs, eyes, etc.

Anderson kept swinging the bucket and would laugh when it would come back to him.


The next station they went to, they were inventing snow that doesn't melt.
Jack got to help pour in the powder. Then when the elf added water to it, it turned into a cold white fluffy stuff that looked just like snow. All of the kids, and the adults, thought it was super cool. He said that Los Angeles was going to love their new invention. :)
The weirdest part about it was that it was actually cold.

They made toys out of little lego things, and did so many cute things. I just couldn't get over how cute is was inside and how funny all of the "elves" were. Jack was in heaven.

Here we are waiting for our turn with Santa. They wouldn't let us take our own camera in with Santa, of course, so I had to take a picture of our picture they made us pay for. It was well worth it though. Jack was able to tell him that he wanted binoculars. Anderson was terrified and cried the whole time. It was classic. What is it with Santa and little kids??
He even had a real beard :)

5 comments:

Beckie said...

What a cool place- I wish we had something like that around Idaho!!!

Brittany Mecham said...

Bummer that we missed it!!! It looks super fun... we are/ were just totally LAME this year! Love all the pictures!

Mary said...

We dud this and it was fun too! But you guys got the cute elves. We had some super wacky, gay guys. Not kidding. Like over the top, freaky gay guys. It was a little disturbing. It was still fun for Luke though!

idaho grandma said...

Looks like a really fun place. Glad you found it just in time. Jack looks like he is in heaven. He has so much imagination and you could tell he was having a blast. Anderson looks like he was having fun until he got to meet Santa. Too bad! Poor little kids and their first experience with Santa. I remember all my kids did the same thing. The snow part is really cool. The baby shower looked really cute. You always do such a good job with party food and decorations.

Nat said...

Oh, what an awesome place! It looks like you had so much fun. So cute!