Eiteljorg museum

 

Fall is field trip season for us.  I feel like we've had a field trip every week!  Our most recent field trip was to the Eiteljorg Museum downtown.  First, driving downtown is never a good idea!  We got somewhat lost, but managed to get there on time.  Caelin is very interested in Indians, so I wanted to make the effort to go on this trip, even though I wasn't sure how the younger kids would do.  I had never heard of this museum and it is fairly new, but they have a lot of Indian artifacts and talked about the Indian tribes that lived in indiana.  As I feared, our tour guide was a little above the kids' head.  It was supposed to be for kindergarten -2nd graders, but even the 2nd graders struggled some with following her.  I think they would have enjoyed the museum more if they could  have just walked around and looked at the exhibits as they wanted.  We were all very interested in the cradle boards :)  There was a really fun area where the kids could make tee pee models, and they loved that! We could have stayed there for the entire hour!

We ended in the basement where there was a really fun area the kids could play in.  They could dress up and play in all kinds of 'old fashion' areas, like a stage coach :)