Falls of the Ohio – Family Fun Fair

On Saturday, AnnaMay was selling stuff at a yard sale, so it was up to me to provide our children with fun and educational entertainment! I found said entertainment easily at the Family Fun Fair at the Falls of the Ohio museum!

We were greeted by the very large mastadon skeleton that roamed these parts prior to the ice age. (Translation: Prior to the flood that Noah built the ark for)

This doggie is a New Foundland. He’s an incredible swimmer and the same type of dog that accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition to find a water route to the Pacific. He was also really soft and friendly.

Next the kids made bracelets out of corn kernels  and other various seeds. Never knew masking tape could be used for such ingenious ideas!

Azariah displays his bracelet.

 

Glorianna was pretty proud of hers.

Next we found a table where the kids had to sort fossils based on what type they were. Is it a horn fossil or some other various type?

Cat tail origami! Make a duck with a cat tail grassy-leafy whateveryoucallit. It even floated!

Even Delbert the wizard was there to entertain the kids with some magic tricks!!

There was an area for “driftwood art”. The boys went less on the art side, and more on the boat making side of things. You selected a piece of driftwood and pine cones, leaves, feathers, etc and then the nice lady used her hot glue gun and stuck things where they wanted them.

After the driftwood art, we had arm loads of stuff. So we took it out to the truck and found a rock where the kids had to stand on it to “pose” for pictures.

Azariah is all into being a statue if he stands on a rock.

Azariah shows off the fish he painted. After they painted the fish, they pressed a sheet of paper on it to make an imprint. We got to take the paper imprint home.

Owl pellet dissection!! No no, don’t worry…it’s not owl poop. It’s regurgitated. That makes it better. Owls apparently cannot digest bones and fur. So after ingesting a nice mouse or some other rodent, they hock up a hairball full of bones.

Some genious one day, upon coming across one of these little hair balls and discovering what was in it, decided that there was money to be made in these things. So he created a company that collects these hairballs, sterilizes them, and sells them to people to use as science experiments. Go figure.

Zion finds the bones, and matches them up to the chart.

Next was River clean up. We got free t-shirts, gloves, and a garbage bag. We wanted to go hike along the river anyway, so why not be all environmental and stuff!! We collected a fair bit of garbage actually. The kids really got into finding garbage.

The kids sporting their “River Sweep 2010” shirts.

We had a great time. We spent 3 hours there. I didn’t think we’d spend half that! We didn’t see the video they have at the interpretive center anyhow. I actually want to go back to the museum to take in everything without the kids sometime.