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| Watching the skating at the Natural History Museum |
Next stop was an area called Launch Pad, it was advertised as an area for hands on play for 8-14 year olds. We thought we would just pop our heads in, but Tom got into the spirit of the place straight away and wasn't phased by the amount of people there or by the fact most of the children there were older than him. There was one big sorting machine which allowed you to scoop up and transport little beads around an apparatus, it needed a team of about 6 children to keep it going. Tom decided the wheel scoop was his job and kept it moving for quite a while. In fact, in the end we had to drag him off it by telling him it was lunchtime. However, we had to promise him that we would return as a bribe. This we did, so he had another stint at the sorting machine, then he had a play on the other exhibits: making a bridge, having a go on a spinning wheel, trying to get a ping pong ball to bounce through hoops, etc.
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| I'm a bridge |
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| Working the sorting machine |
We then made our way down to the ground floor where we found Puffing Billy and The Rocket in the train exhibit. We carried on to 'the purple room' where we found something called a pattern pod which was aimed at pre-schoolers and included an interactive virtual pond with goldfish swimming in it. We were shown that if we slapped it, we could make ripples and if we held our hands out the fish would swim to us. This fascinated Tom and he was delighted every time a fish swam towards him "I caught a fish", "I've got two, TWO fish" etc.
Eventually we were all tired, so decided to call it a day and head home. Another good day out.
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