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In addition to all of the dinosaur exhibit items, they had a display of minerals upstairs that all of the kids really loved -- especially the part where they turned off the lights and got to see them under black light! Connor with a mineral case

More pretty minerals

A display of geodes

Connor and a classmate

Group pic -- kids saw me taking a picture and came to get in it!

Talking about likely dinosaur coloration based on habitat, and coloring dino masks

Apatosaurus femur

The kids were impressed by its size!

Excavating fossils with small brushes

The "sand" is actually ground corncobs

This was, of course, one of the kids' favorite parts!

Back to the masks after excavating

Making fossil rubbings

What a surprise -- Nancy Martindale!

Connor with his triceratrops as we were about to leave

March 12: PaChris and the kids playing with a steam engine

Closer view of steam engine

March 18: Treehouse design the kids want to build. That's a playhouse on stilts on the left, with a trapdoor to get into the house part and a small balcony on the front, then a set of monkey bars running to the right, joining into a platform suspended between 2 trees. The platform part would have a railing all of the way around, a rope ladder to climb in through an opening, and a board-and-single-rope swing. (Kailyn would also like to add a zip line to zip off of the platform to the ground, but that's undecided as of yet. I'd rather not have any broken bones to contend with.)

Diagram for possible way to attach the platform between 2 trees (the right-hand end of the structure)

March 20: Thurible under construction for our church

Side view

Cars lined up for the District Pinewood Derby