Little Shop of Physics

According to a quick glance through my records, it had been more than five years (wow, time flies!) since we'd been to the Little Shop of Physics event with our homeschooling group. I didn't realize it had been so long. (Oops, lol.) In any case, we signed up to go this year and even Noah joined us since he's out of school and there was the promise of food following the function. ;)

This wasn't their big open house event...just time set aside for our group to wander their four rooms packed with experiments. (We prefer this, as it's not such a mad house and the boys actually get time on each of the things.) Kids get to try out everything on their own, with signs explaining the science behind the experiment at each station and volunteers always available to step in and help. Here's Micah and Asher in the magnet room:

And here's Noah being polite and listening to a volunteer tell him about this experiment (even though Noah fully understood all the experiments and asked me why the volunteers kept offering to explain things to him, lol):

(Personally, I think the volunteers were stoked for the opportunity to talk science with someone who probably would understand it rather than just think it looked cool, lol.)

The boys are all old enough now that I pretty much just let them do their own thing throughout the rooms while I visited with other moms instead. Everyone wins. And then we got food. ;)