Vacation: South Dakota Children's Museum

We left for a short vacation early Saturday morning. Our first stop was the South Dakota Children's Museum in Brookings. I had heard good things and was really excited to bring the boys. We were not disappointed! Here are some of the activities they loved:

Giant dinosaur outside.

Animated dinosaur

Digging for fossils

Archaeologist-in-training

Building with foam blocks

Building a house

Construction Workers

Final product!

Fixing cars

Moving bricks

Stuffed dog in the barn

Sending produce to the grocery store

Giant Lite-Brite

Instrument Wall

Baby pigs

Ride 'em cowboy

Changing tires

Water Works

Following the balls through the maze

Pumping up the pressure to shoot the ball up

Making music

We had a great time!

All in all, we spent about 2.5 hours here and only left because it was getting late for lunch and Ryan was pretty set on McDonald's and we had other activities planned for the afternoon.  I would say this place can easily entertain a 1.5-4 year old for at least 3 hours. We didn't do all of the rooms but let the boys just explore and take time where they were interested, skip where they weren't. I'd like to try out some other children's museums in the area but this one will be pretty hard to beat!