We visited the "Lego Travel Adventure" at Omaha Children's Museum and I would recommend it to anyone who has a LEGO fan living under their roof. (If your child isn't a LEGO fan, they'll be one after this trip.)
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LEGO Travel Adventure
The second floor of the Omaha Children's Museum has been taken over. Thousands of LEGO bricks everywhere! The space is divided up into several stations including one just for the smallest LEGO fans. There are specific building areas with the small LEGO bricks, a race track where you can continually perfect your car, an area with large LEGO bricks that is safe for small kiddos (these LEGO bricks cannot be swallowed or choked on) and more!
My 2 and 5 year old spent almost 1.5 hours building, testing, building, and testing their race cars. We would have stayed longer but my youngest desperately needed a nap. We could have spent another 1.5 hours just working on their race cars.
This exhibit is great for a wide range of kids. The youngest can stay in the contained large LEGO brick area and older ones will enjoy the building stations. As a parent, I spent a lot of my time marveling at the LEGO creations. It was crowded but not so much that my kids couldn't enjoy themselves.
Fairytale Land
OCM has opened another new exhibit entitled "Fairytale Land." Here, children can meet, sing and act with princesses, knights and dragons. We joined the princesses for a singing and dancing party to Disney princess hits like "Be Our Guest." Fairytale Land puts on several "shows" a day and they vary so you can go to different shows throughout the day.
Splash Garden
Halfway through our day at the museum we decided to go outside and play in OCM's splash garden. The splash garden is right outside the entrance and is a fun way to break up or end your day at the museum. We brought our swimsuits in anticipation of playing here. It isn't a large splash park but it does its purpose-to cool kids off
The Omaha Children's Museum is a great day trip. I'd plan a day there before the LEGO Travel Adventure leaves town; it won't disappoint you.
