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Great trips for kids..if you don't mind a little (or a longer) drive!
By Robin Phillips  30 miles away -- So close to Fairfield is one of my favorite museums in the world, The Yale Peabody Museum www.peabody.yale.edu. It's a Natural History museum filled with gigantic dinosaur bones, fascinating rocks, and one of the coolest mummies (including the mummies of a cat and a bird!) and Egyptian rooms around. They have changing exhibits so check their web site for the latest programs. It's an educational and enthralling place for all ages! 45 miles away -- Woodbury Ski Area -- This is where you want to go to go tubing -- families can jump in one huge tube and go careening down the nice sized hills here. Lots of thrills! There is also skiing, snow boarding, and cross country skiing. www.woodburyskiarea.com 85 miles away -- Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea. Some people go to Mystic, CT to go to the aquarium. My family goes to Mystic, CT to visit the seaport, the recreated village there and its engaging kids' activities. It's especially easy with children in tow, because it's self-guided and there is a large central green for a frisbee match or a picnic in good weather. This authentic 19th-century maritime village is replete with old village stores, workshops, a school house, the last wooden whaling ship in the world, and a (reportedly) haunted 19th century sea captain's house. If you like ghost stories, be sure to drop in and ask the museum staff what eerie things they have heard and seen! Kids can also build their own small wooden boat in the hands-on craft house. Inside the Children's Museum, children 7-and-younger can sleep in a ship's bunk, swab the deck, cook in the galley, draw pictures, build with blocks, and dress in sailors' garb. Past the playground is yet another kid's hands-on activity center with more to check out. "Playscapes" is a wooden-boat playground where kids can run from boat to boat pretending they're sea captains. As if that wasn't enough to entertain you and your family for an entire day, there is also a planetarium with various programs throughout the day! Check the website for the daily events. Children of all ages are free in February! Kids under 5 are admitted free and the cafeteria has plenty of chicken fingers and hot dogs! Mystic Seaport - The Museum of America and the Sea 75 Greenmanville Avenue Mystic, CT 06355-0990 Visitor Information: 860.572.5315 or 888.973.2767 www.mysticseaport.org 100 miles away -- Old Sturbridge Village. You may remember visiting here as a child, especially if you grew up in the Northeast. Today, OSV is even better and more geared toward children than ever before. It is what is called a "living museum" (and it's the largest one of its kind in New England) which re-creates life in rural Massachusetts during the 1790s through 1830s. They go to great lengths here to show you what the world was like back then, right down to the costumes people wore, the houses they lived in, and the places where they did their banking, shopping, and farming. On school vacation week there'll be skating, sledding and sleigh rides, in addition to the hands-on kids activity center, where kids can dress in 18th century outfits and pretend they are running a village store, harvesting crops, or tending to a home. There is also a school house with even more kids' activities planned. Check out their site to find out exactly what is going on the day you plan to go: www.osv.org Latest Articles |
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