I was doing Cave/Ice Age and I had pulled out Gordon after I did rounds and so many kids who were scared of him at first sat and listened to me talk about him and after I talked about him for a bit a good number of them were wanting to try to pet him.
Gordon also did so good! He didn’t arch his back much until the very end.
Today when we were doing the Victory Garden activity I had a little girl tell me. ” I didn’t make this poster for me to take home. It’s not for you to use to teach people about Victory Gardens. I made this poster just for you to keep forever”
I got to do one of my favorite things in CHM again today. Whenever I see someone playing the time card punch thing in You Are Here I walk by and ask them how they’re doing and all that and when I leave (I try to time it with when someone puts in one of the cards) I hit the button to make the whistle blow. Seeing peoples faces light up when they think that they made that happen is awesome.
I was chatting with a little boy about 5 in Dinosaur clothes top to bottom who was leaving the Dinosaur Hlll. I ask him if he like the dinosarus and he said that they were OK, but not what he expected. I asked him why not. He said because they did not come to life and growl and try to eat him.
Was walking dowm to cave plaza past the Ancient Worlds hidden in plane site cases and there was a young teen age boy in from if the dunkleosteus saying ” what is this? A seamonster?” I said it was a giant extict fish that used to live here when there was an ocean where Cincinnati is now. He said ” Just what I though a seamonster!”
I was doing my rounds in science, walked out of the glacier into the ice age and came face to face with a pack of about 15 elementary kids in a school group, all on all fours, all howling together and scrambling about the path. The rest of the morning I would hear brief howling sessions off and on throughout the museum.
I was hanging around the Ice Age Trail shortly after the aforementioned pack of wolf children moved on, and a family with a small two year old girl came through. She was very determinedly trying to pick up every rock that had been embedded in the path. There was little success for about 3/4 of the way, but she finally happened upon a tiny pebble (which had most likely been tracked in from the outside) and picked it up, beaming. She then stuffed it down the front of her shirt and chortled her success to the world as mom tried to fish it back out.
After I did my stage show I stayed in Science Interactives to chat with folks for a bit, there was a girl at the cup tornado thing who was just putting a normal cup in it with no cuts in it so I asked her if she had tried cutting it into different shapes yet and she said “yes! my dad and I tried a few different ways to do it so now I’m comparing it to the normal cup!” she then asked me to help her get one of her earlier designs unstuck from the top of the tube.
I was chatting with a mom in the now Antarctic Dinosaure display. She was carring a toddler on her hip around 2 years old dressed in overalls a button down white shirt and a bow tie. Mom was asking lots of dinosaure questions, she was really interested in the whole display. after a few questions the toddler learnd around his mom and said “less talking more walking, Mom!”
Yesterday after my stage show I was wandering around Science Interactives and I heard a dad trying to convince his son to go elsewhere in the museum because they had been in Science Interactives for over an hour. I offered a pinky promise that he would have soooo much fun in the rest of the museum and he didn’t say anything, but did hold out his pinky very expectantly. I saw them later in children’s playing having a lot of fun and his dad thanked me.
Today, a Nigerian couple stopped me as I was buying lunch. The woman asked me where I got my keffiyeh (koo, fee, ya. My Palestinian scarf). I told them my mom gave it to me. They then asked me if I was in the blink parade. I said yes hesitantly but she was overjoyed. “Did you hear me shouting go Palestine?! I prayed that I would see so I could tell you how happy I am to see you standing up for your people and what’s right”. We exchanged our information for future events. It was just a wonderful encounter.
Today I was at the cave when a family walked up. The little boy (Maybe 4?) was clutching a Shaun the sheep plushie and was a bit scared to go down the stairs, so I offered him my flashlight and a trip through the ‘little cave’. We went through, me explaining about the cave, him saying he was trying really hard not to shine the light in my eyes. After the little cave he decided he could go through the big cave and gave me back the light. after, he sat with me and told me all about the trip here from Michigan (it was long, he watched *three* movies) and Shaun the sheep, who I of course had to say bye to when it was time to go.
I had a couple want to try Birdly and while they waited their turn, they decided to pay for a group of kids that all wanted to try it too. They did not know the kids, but the couple even bought each one of the kids a small plush sauropod.
When I was walking my rounds in Dinosaurs of Antartica I saw a mom pausing in of the Cryolophosaurus skeleton for a picture when suddenly her little boy ran up and pulled her away “No mom not there you are too close to it’s month it could bite your head off!”
In KidSPACE on Saturday I had a 3-year old ish girl come in. I said hi and came around to her table a couple of times. I asked what she was working on but the only answer I really got was “for you!” Her mom was right next to her so I assumed that’s who she was talking to. When the family left, the girl ran up and handed me the project she’d been working on!
In Kids Town Kroger a mom was watching her kids shop. One of them shouted, “Mom, you be the kid!” The mom immediately picked up a box and started asking, “Mom, can I get this? I want this! Mom? Mom? Mom?”
While I had my wolf head on, I had a young guest point to me and just say “wolf!”. So I did a fun howl and she gleefully screamed and ran away. She the proceeded to do it a few more times, switching between screams and howling with me.
I spent about half an hour talking serious anatomy questions with a young girl dressed as Cinderella today in Dinosaurs of Antarctica.
It started when she pointed to one of the bones on the Chryoslophosaurus and said “Show me where that bone is on me and let’s talk about what it does.”
Before we were done we covered – why some animals aren’t as fast as others, why dinosaur hips are different from reptile hips, why theropods have long tails, how we make guesses about dinosaur ages, how puberty effect bone growth, flexible vs rigid spines, how cheetah tails are shaped and why they are like that, and the best place to eat in Cincinnati.
Her dad just stood there smiling and glowing pride in in smart sassy kid.
It may be one of my best guest interactions ever.
CMC Memories 
I was doing Cave/Ice Age and I had pulled out Gordon after I did rounds and so many kids who were scared of him at first sat and listened to me talk about him and after I talked about him for a bit a good number of them were wanting to try to pet him.
Gordon also did so good! He didn’t arch his back much until the very end.
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Today when we were doing the Victory Garden activity I had a little girl tell me. ” I didn’t make this poster for me to take home. It’s not for you to use to teach people about Victory Gardens. I made this poster just for you to keep forever”
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I got to do one of my favorite things in CHM again today. Whenever I see someone playing the time card punch thing in You Are Here I walk by and ask them how they’re doing and all that and when I leave (I try to time it with when someone puts in one of the cards) I hit the button to make the whistle blow. Seeing peoples faces light up when they think that they made that happen is awesome.
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I put my name down but it didn’t take, this was Samantha
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A little boy walked into the woods, bent over to pet the ground, and just said “greeeeeeeeen”
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This is a old one I forgot to record.
I was chatting with a little boy about 5 in Dinosaur clothes top to bottom who was leaving the Dinosaur Hlll. I ask him if he like the dinosarus and he said that they were OK, but not what he expected. I asked him why not. He said because they did not come to life and growl and try to eat him.
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Was walking dowm to cave plaza past the Ancient Worlds hidden in plane site cases and there was a young teen age boy in from if the dunkleosteus saying ” what is this? A seamonster?” I said it was a giant extict fish that used to live here when there was an ocean where Cincinnati is now. He said ” Just what I though a seamonster!”
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I was doing my rounds in science, walked out of the glacier into the ice age and came face to face with a pack of about 15 elementary kids in a school group, all on all fours, all howling together and scrambling about the path. The rest of the morning I would hear brief howling sessions off and on throughout the museum.
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I was hanging around the Ice Age Trail shortly after the aforementioned pack of wolf children moved on, and a family with a small two year old girl came through. She was very determinedly trying to pick up every rock that had been embedded in the path. There was little success for about 3/4 of the way, but she finally happened upon a tiny pebble (which had most likely been tracked in from the outside) and picked it up, beaming. She then stuffed it down the front of her shirt and chortled her success to the world as mom tried to fish it back out.
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After I did my stage show I stayed in Science Interactives to chat with folks for a bit, there was a girl at the cup tornado thing who was just putting a normal cup in it with no cuts in it so I asked her if she had tried cutting it into different shapes yet and she said “yes! my dad and I tried a few different ways to do it so now I’m comparing it to the normal cup!” she then asked me to help her get one of her earlier designs unstuck from the top of the tube.
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As I was running my stage show I heard a kid say “wow! she’s a wizard!” when I made the fireball happen.
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I was chatting with a mom in the now Antarctic Dinosaure display. She was carring a toddler on her hip around 2 years old dressed in overalls a button down white shirt and a bow tie. Mom was asking lots of dinosaure questions, she was really interested in the whole display. after a few questions the toddler learnd around his mom and said “less talking more walking, Mom!”
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Yesterday after my stage show I was wandering around Science Interactives and I heard a dad trying to convince his son to go elsewhere in the museum because they had been in Science Interactives for over an hour. I offered a pinky promise that he would have soooo much fun in the rest of the museum and he didn’t say anything, but did hold out his pinky very expectantly. I saw them later in children’s playing having a lot of fun and his dad thanked me.
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Today, a Nigerian couple stopped me as I was buying lunch. The woman asked me where I got my keffiyeh (koo, fee, ya. My Palestinian scarf). I told them my mom gave it to me. They then asked me if I was in the blink parade. I said yes hesitantly but she was overjoyed. “Did you hear me shouting go Palestine?! I prayed that I would see so I could tell you how happy I am to see you standing up for your people and what’s right”. We exchanged our information for future events. It was just a wonderful encounter.
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Today I was at the cave when a family walked up. The little boy (Maybe 4?) was clutching a Shaun the sheep plushie and was a bit scared to go down the stairs, so I offered him my flashlight and a trip through the ‘little cave’. We went through, me explaining about the cave, him saying he was trying really hard not to shine the light in my eyes. After the little cave he decided he could go through the big cave and gave me back the light. after, he sat with me and told me all about the trip here from Michigan (it was long, he watched *three* movies) and Shaun the sheep, who I of course had to say bye to when it was time to go.
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I had a couple want to try Birdly and while they waited their turn, they decided to pay for a group of kids that all wanted to try it too. They did not know the kids, but the couple even bought each one of the kids a small plush sauropod.
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When I was walking my rounds in Dinosaurs of Antartica I saw a mom pausing in of the Cryolophosaurus skeleton for a picture when suddenly her little boy ran up and pulled her away “No mom not there you are too close to it’s month it could bite your head off!”
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Walking through DoA on Saturday I saw a toddler kiss the Antarctosuchus right on the mouth.
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I saw a little bit today who had two small pigtails that stood straight up in the top of his head.
His mom told us they where his triceritops horns
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I was in The Woods last week and a little girl came down the slide. I congratulated her, and she ran up and gave me a high five!
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-Stella Fried
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In KidSPACE on Saturday I had a 3-year old ish girl come in. I said hi and came around to her table a couple of times. I asked what she was working on but the only answer I really got was “for you!” Her mom was right next to her so I assumed that’s who she was talking to. When the family left, the girl ran up and handed me the project she’d been working on!
-Stella Fried
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In Kids Town Kroger a mom was watching her kids shop. One of them shouted, “Mom, you be the kid!” The mom immediately picked up a box and started asking, “Mom, can I get this? I want this! Mom? Mom? Mom?”
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Jeb and I got to talk to a guest about steam engines. I learned about how a fly ball governor works for regulating speed on a steam engine.
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While I had my wolf head on, I had a young guest point to me and just say “wolf!”. So I did a fun howl and she gleefully screamed and ran away. She the proceeded to do it a few more times, switching between screams and howling with me.
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I spent about half an hour talking serious anatomy questions with a young girl dressed as Cinderella today in Dinosaurs of Antarctica.
It started when she pointed to one of the bones on the Chryoslophosaurus and said “Show me where that bone is on me and let’s talk about what it does.”
Before we were done we covered – why some animals aren’t as fast as others, why dinosaur hips are different from reptile hips, why theropods have long tails, how we make guesses about dinosaur ages, how puberty effect bone growth, flexible vs rigid spines, how cheetah tails are shaped and why they are like that, and the best place to eat in Cincinnati.
Her dad just stood there smiling and glowing pride in in smart sassy kid.
It may be one of my best guest interactions ever.
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