treehouse museum pics

The treehouse museum is located in Ogden. Monday was our first time visiting. The girls had a great time. We spent about 3 1/2 to 4 hours there. The building has this giant "tree" structure in the center that you climb to get to the second floor. They have a little one room schoolhouse that Michelle loved. She was the teacher and had not just me but another little girl totally following her directions. She would write things on the board and we had to copy them onto our slates. She taught us a song. Ella was "reading" a Dick and Jane book and mostly ignored Michelle. There's a store and doctor's office/hospital. There's a block area and a music area and lots of books in every area. There's an area that is designed to look like the Oval Office in the White House and it has photographs of all the US Presidents. There's an area about dinosaurs. They have storytime and activities and an art area with projects. It's $5 for kids and $3 for adults, which I thought was quite reasonable. It seems geered more for young children, and my girls had a fabulous time. There's lots of clothes and costumes they can dress up in. Lots of fun things to do. Michelle and Ella both liked the fire truck, and Michelle enjoyed trying on the fire chief's hat (and later) suit.
one example of the clothes they had to dress up. Michelle liked the silly hat. This area had little rooms that were representative of different countries and had things that went with a story from that country.
The music area had marimbas (similar to xylophones... that's what Ella is playing), maracas, drums, and other percussion instruments.
more dress up... sailing the high seas in a sailboat
the kitchen in the house.... Ella cooked me pizza and then we played store.

I don't love to drive so I don't imagine we'll go there a lot, but it was definitely worth a visit, and I'm sure we'll make a few return trips.