The Cape Cod Children’s Museum has some great educational programs. Our neighbors have enrolled their little guys in Miss Mary’s science class. Miss Mary has a private eye puppet named Sylvester “Sly” Sleuth who helps her. The class allows children to perform experiments, role play, and get really engaged with science learning. The little guys next door are always running across the driveway to excitedly tell us what Miss Mary and Sly taught them.
It’s really whetted their appetities for science and experimenting. When I’m out working in the garden, the little 5 year-old comes over and wants to know all about the plants and how they grow and how much water do they need. Why do you have a composter? It’s yukky! How DO those green beans become fertilizer? What’s fertilizer?
The class has less than 10 children and meets once a week for 10 weeks. The program costs $85 for Cape Cod Children’s Museum members and $110 for non-members. It’s designed for 4 and 5 year-olds.
But you don’t have to signup for class to experience the learning opportunities at the Cape Cod Children’s Museum. For example Leo and I watched our little neighbors as they went on their way this morning to learn how to make catapults. As Leo said do we really want to teach little boys how to launch rocks! Well we may be ducking for a few days. But I bet Leo the engineer will be out playing with them later today, showing them how to improve their catapults.
The Cape Cod Children’s Museum is located in Mashpee, just 2 miles from the Mashpee Rotary on Great Neck Road.
It’s open from 10 to 3 Tuesday through Thursay - 10 to 5 on Friday and Saturday - Noon to 5 on Sunday. If you’re not a member, admission is $6.00. Membership for a family of two to four is $75. Each additional family member is $10.
