The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

Every Wednesday this summer, our young families bible class at church has a fun play date scheduled for the kids. We've been to water parks, just plain playing outside parks and to end our summer fun we had our last play date at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. It was so very cool. The whole bottom floor of the Cowgirl Museum is a children's museum right now because the City of Ft. Worth is building a huge addition to the Museum of Science and History. So basically, they moved all the cool hands-on kids stuff to the Cowgirl Museum until the new construction is finished. Our kids LOVED it. There were dinosaurs for the boys to roar and stomp around like, several cars for them to sit and pretend driving and most of all...the beloved grocery store. The kids love these stores that they have at the children's museums.

They get their own little cart and can put as much stuff in the cart as they would like! Parker liked the little scanner. I take that back, I think he just liked the beeping that it made when it crossed the scanner. And of course, they loved playing with all of the food and pretending that they were big.

This museum was so fun for the kids. They had one area that was just for kids 6 and under and then another area that was little Hands-On learning activities for the older kids...but not too old. Grace loved that area. They had an earthquake table that simulated a earthquake after you built a block house on top of it...it would shake and rock and your house would most certainly fall down.

This was the first week that hardly anyone showed up for our play date. I don't know if it was because you actually had to pay admission to get your kids inside or if people are just tired and ready for school to start. I know I would pay the admission over again because my kids had a great time and they...well, Grace anyway, learned so much from just doing little things. I'm thankful that our great buddies the Thompsons came because we all had a wonderful time! If you are ever in town and want something fun to do with the kids, I would totally recommend going to this great place!Oh, I almost forgot to mention the National Cowgirl part of the Museum...it was so very neat! We walked up the stairs and the kids were back in the west. They sat around the campfire and pretended to eat, they dressed up like cowgirls, and they got to sit on horses. Not real, of course, but they had real saddles. The museum is so nice and clean and just up to date. I would really like to go back with just the girls and be able to actually read about all of the exhibits, but that will have to be another day! Parker and his little friend did just great and had such a fun time. I'm so thankful that we live in a big town with such fun activities for our kids to do during the summer.