My son is a collector. He collects rocks, bottle caps, cars, etc. The other day he came up with the idea to showcase his rock collection by hosting a Rock Museum in his room. He got it all ready to go, then opened it up to the public!
He displayed all his rocks on his small table in his room, very proud of his collection.
He even marked some as “don’t touch” and “touch”, as the “don’t touch” rocks are a little more fragile and the “touch” rocks are very smooth.
Next, he said he’s going to open up a Paleontologist’s Museum and share his collection of dinosaurs! I can’t wait to uncover some ancient dinosaur bones!
What fun collections do your kids have?
Written by Marie LeBaron
Marie LeBaron is the founder and managing editor of Make and Takes. Always having a love of crafts, she enjoys getting messy with glue and glitter. There’s always some sort of project going on, her kitchen counter is often cluttered with crafts. When she’s not crafting and creating with her kids, she loves to run, read, and blog! Read other posts by Marie
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So darned adorable.
That rocks! (I had to sorry.)
You shoudl start a quickie blog for him to show off his collection,and send the link to relatives….
Love this. I collect rocks as well. He has a great collection.
Holly
So cute! I love that he has the touch and no-touch sections. You can tell he visits a lot of museums – good job mama!
That is SO cute!
Do you the album “Here Comes Science” by They Might Be Giants? My children love the song “I am a Paleontologist.”
Love it. Tonight my three year old told me that most therapods were carnivors. I think he’d love to come to you son’s museums!
He looks so proud of his collection and I love his little notes! Does he like to paint rocks? My girls love to collect rocks as well and sometimes paint them. Here’s a post of mine from last year that you might enjoy titled Discover Rocks and Minerals.
http://raisingcreativeandcuriouskids.blogspot.com/2009/03/discover-rocks-and-minerals.html
I enjoyed your post! Take Care!
I love it! My girls claim to collect all sorts of things (pretty much anything they find that they think I’ll say no to coming home with us) but only Shira has a true rock collection. I’m sure a museum is in our future, too, since they love them.
OK, this is the cutest thing ever and totally something I would have done as a child. I can’t wait until Finn is this age, the imagination!
Alls you can do is smile at this one. It’s like when Fancy Nancy tried to show her family how to be Fancy :)
I agree this totally ROCKS!!! My dd collects rocks too! Let me know if he would be interested in trading some. She has some duplicates that we would be happy to share.
How cute. That sounds like something my youngest would do. She painted a huge pile of pictures and then put a sign outside to let people know they could come in and see them or even buy them and was so bummed when no one rang the doorbell. Hope he gets lots of interested rock lovers to come see his collection.
My daughter and her friend set up a beach/fossil museum in our home, before it opened they created stuffed animals (glued together with hot glue) and post cards (up close pictures of their exhibit items) to go in the gift shop. They would give friends and family a very informative tour, then invite them to visit the gift shop. The items were cute and many were bought, and the girls only accepted real money, (this took many moms by surprise, as their children clambered for some trinket). They made about $14 before I reclaimed the space. The girls worked really hard and had the experience of running a business. They were 9 and 10.