* Pennypickles Workshop *

Pennies and Pickles everywhere! Today I decided to take the kids for a local adventure. We visited Mr. Pennypickle's Workshop in Old Town. This is a children's museum that has been voted number one by Nicklelodeon kid's choice. It's been around for a while and I have been waiting to go. Yes "waiting".

I wanted Sam to be old enough to enjoy it and now that he is four I thought it would be the perfect time. Children two and under are free so of course Samara came with us too.

It was a beautiful day perfect in the sense that it wasn't too hot or too cold. We arrived on time for the first session and it wasn't crowded at all. While inside, we discovered multiple rooms with small hidden crawling spaces that led to other rooms. This was a highlight for Sam not so much for Samara. They had a glow in the dark room and a ton of hands on experiments and things to explore. They even had a science presentation for the children.

I think we were at the museum/workshop for about an hour and a half before the kids started to get a little bored. There is plenty to do in Mr. Pennypickle's house and even adults will be entertained by all the neat experiments and optical illusions. One of my favorites was looking through a peep hole into a long "Willy Wonka" type corridor. Samara's favorite was a giant wardrobe that you could step in to that had a magic mirror inside. It was really just a two way mirror but she loved it and kept saying it was "Narnia". Samuel of course enjoyed all the buttons and knobs that were available for him to play with and explore.

I would recommend this place for anyone looking for something fun and inexpensive for the kids to do. I am sure that weekday's are probably best since it's probably not so crowded. I will definitely take the kids there again perhaps again in the summer when it's too hot to be outside anywhere!