The Surrey Leisure guide lists these types of sessions each season and we figured that since it was only $5 we couldn't really go wrong. Apparently we were mistaken. It was a one hour session geared towards 2&3 year olds and Carter is becoming quite the dinosaur fan so we signed him up. It had all the right elements for a 2 year old but I think the instructors were still in high school and their presentation needed some work. They started us out with some coloring and quickly moved us on to painting. For the first five minutes though they had no smocks which could have been quite the disaster with the huge globs of paint they gave the kids.
After the painting we moved on to some fossil hunting however instead of digging for bones we were digging for little plastic dinosaurs. I should also mention that during the painting they were explaining all about the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. I'm sure the kids were fascinated with all of the facts and figures she had downloaded off the internet to read them.
We also got to make our own fossils. Sort of. We took some dough and used the plastic dinosaurs to make impressions. We finished the session with some "What time is it Mr Dinosaur" and a few stories. Amazingly even though the session was only 1 hour we finished up 5 minutes early.
Carter did teach me a lesson in keeping an open mind and just enjoying the moment. He had a great time and is very excited about the Pterodactyl dinosaur toy he got to take home.
I feel your pain - when Sara was 2 and took a dance class through the township the instruction gave the whole class of kids (all in diapers) a bathroom break....................
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