DuPage Children's Museum

Today I took my three little monkeys to the DuPage Children's Museum in Naperville. The museum opened at 9am today and I managed to get everyone up dressed, fed and to the museum before 10am. I thought that was pretty impressive given the fact it was a 45min drive from Streamwood to Naperville.

The DuPage Children Museum is a great spot for children of all ages. There are a bunch of wonderful sections through out the entire museum called "Young Explorers". I think of this area as for the under 3 set. I saw babies as young as 4 months crawling around exploring all the different wooden toys in there as well as lots of mirrors at "baby" level. There were lots of tunnels to crawl through and things to jump on.

They have divided the museum up into different neighborhoods. We spent a lot of time in what I call the exploring with light and sounds area. The kids explore shadows, colors, glow in the dark as well as music and sounds. There is a whole room with a variety of musical instruments for the kids to bang on.

The big area that all children and parents really seem to enjoy is the water works. This is a wonderful water table filled with all sorts of spurting and squirting water that the kids try to control. Molly, my 18 month old just enjoyed splashing in the water. Grace, my 5 year old loved pouring the water over the water wheels and watching the wheels go round and round while Ben, my 7 year old, had all sorts of PVC pipe trying to control the direction and flow of the water.

Right next to the water works is a mini wind tunnel and series of tubes shooting wind all of the place. The kids are encouraged to try to direct the wind as well as sending small balls and scarves through the winding pipe.

There is so much to see and do at the DuPage Children's Museum there is no way I could describe it all. For more information check out their website http://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/