I do try to support all museums and do not mind paying entry fees, but with they were not listed to include supposedly "free" reciprocity with other Children's Museums if they in fact do not. We were disappointed to hear at the ticket counter that despite being told our membership worked for free admission, it actually did NOT and we needed to purchase additional tickets to this museum. I even purchased the upgrade to add a guest as I was meeting a friend and her toddler in Chattoonoga for the weekend. However, I AM disappointed as I bought a membership to our local children's museum as it supposedly had reciprocity with this one. I definitely give it 5 stars as there are plenty of things for kids to do, see and learn within this museum. I just couldn’t think of a better way to spend the day together as a family.Ĭreative Discovery Museum is definitely worth a trip to if you are visiting Chattanooga.The Creative Discovery Museum is a wonderful place for kids to learn and explore. And you know what learning should be fun. No surprise there and Mama appreciated all the benches to sit back and watch the kids explore. Reid’s favorite by far was the music section. Of course digging for fossils in the sand and putting on puppet shows made their day and I practically had to drag my oldest artist away from the craft tables. The water play area was a favorite among the older and younger child, while my middle really took to the imaginary play areas such as the boat, kitchen and little doctors clinic. It was all music to this play school mama’s ears. Constantly running, exclaiming, sorting, playing, exploring and enjoying and of course LEARNING! Oh the learning. This is how I know my children enjoyed the museum: they would not stop moving… the entire four hours we were there. I was excited for all the hands-on learning opportunities as well as opportunities for creative play. So when I was researching Chattanooga and family friendly attractions for a recent trip you can understand why I was so excited to take them to the Creative Discovery Museum located right in downtown Chattanooga. I can’t think of how they could spend their time in any other better way. Imaginary play has taken off for my oldest and middle child and they will spend HOURS, I kid you not HOURS in their room pretending to play airplane, or princess-fairy-superheros and as a mother who agrees on the importance of play I could not be more thrilled. I will admit it at first I was concerned about personal space and me time but something magical has happened this year. Other than that play to your heart’s content kid. Anyways, I do no more than 30 mins of instruction a day which is mostly learning to read out of a workbook, worksheets (which she loves) and reading aloud from picture and chapter books. Let’s enjoy this year and see how it goes. We also really don’t want to be tied down to a school schedule just yet. My oldest was just a few weeks past deadline to enter Kindergarten this year and too ahead to do pre-school AGAIN. This year we are homeschooling pre-k for a myriad of reasons. We’ve all heard the terms homeschooling, road schooling and unschooling but in light of the recent NPR article that talks about how play is important essential to brain development and the fact that many schools are cutting recess down even further I’m coining the new term play schooling and am making sure my children get as much hands off play time as possible throughout the day (meaning me hands-off).
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