If my first graders could plan a perfect day, it would involve breakfast at Amelie's followed by a trip to the Mint Museum Uptown, lunch, and then some crazy fun at Discovery Place. My kids know how to have a great day!
I cannot tell you how many friends are shocked to hear that the Mint Museum is a great place for little people! Please, please, please... bring your children to this museum. My kids cannot get enough of the kids room located just past the check-in desk. They honestly could spend all day there - creating their own art, building structures with magna-tiles, recreating artwork with puzzle pieces - and so much more. I usually negotiate a set amount of time that we will hang out in the kids room and then we plan to hit 2 other galleries upstairs.
The Mint Museum has a countless array of "Artventures" for the kids to choose from - such a great concept! Each "artventure" gives kids a task and a specific gallery or floor on which to solve the mission. Can they find all these dogs in the paintings? What can you find that begins with the letter B? Can you find these patterns? Even I enjoy these "artventures."
Join the Mint and stop by as often as possible. And, of course, bring the kids!