An Obsession with the Titanic

Caleb has a new obsession....the Titanic!

A few months ago, Caleb found my Magic Treehouse books on our bookshelf.  We owned the first 8 books and he LOVED them!  Since then we have been reading all the books in order.  We are currently on number 43.  Book 17 is Tonight on the Titanic.  After reading this book, he became obsessed with the Titanic.  We did all sorts of research online with him, looking at what the boat looked like and what an iceberg was.  He found the Magic Treehouse Titanic research guide and checked out other books he could find about this ship.  The Titanic has become quite the research topic at our house.  

While we were in Dallas flying out for the funeral, we noticed signs for a Titanic Exhibit at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.  We didn't have any big plans for Spring Break, so we decided to make a day trip to Forth Worth to see the Titanic Exhibit as our big Spring Break Adventure.

This museum was so much fun and we were so excited to have our friends the Murray's join us for the day.  Everything is more fun with great friends!  While we waited for our time to enter the Titanic Exhibit, we checked out some of the other fun exhibits.

Shadow Screen

Fun Glow in the Dark Coloring Pads

A HUGE Light Bright!  I loved these when I was a kid (well mine was normal sized).

Can you see Caleb's multi-colored shadow?  So cool!

Making and Launching Paper Airplanes with Dad

The Titanic Exhibit

A very excited boy!  This was a great place to get a picture.  No pictures were allowed in the exhibit so this is one of the few pictures we could take.

As we entered the exhibit, we were each given a boarding pass.  On the back of the pass, there was information about the passenger we represented and information about them.  The kids loved learning about the passengers.  

Caleb's Card

Brydon's Card

Jennifer's Card

It was a beautiful exhibit and Caleb wanted to read every sign and every description by all the items.  He was fascinated by the artifacts and was excited by all the things he already knew.  The set up was really amazing.  The first area of the exhibit focused on the designing and building of the Titanic, then we went to 1st class quarters and so saw artifacts and displays about what this area looked like.  Then to 3rd class quarters and the boiler rooms.  Each part displayed the few artifacts that they had found in those areas.  Then we came to the fateful iceberg crash.  They actually brought in a huge chunk of ice that you could touch and talked about icebergs.  There was also a really good video of how the Titanic most likely hit the iceberg and then sank.  The next part focused on how the remains of the Titanic were found and some of the neat discoveries.  The last section allowed you view a passenger list of everyone that survived or died.  We each looked up our passenger.  Both Caleb and I survived, poor Brydon was a single male and did not make it.

Caleb picked out another book about the Titanic as his souvenir.  It was so fun to take Caleb to a museum exhibit that he was really interested in.

We did get this fun picture!

"I'm the King of the World!"

Our friends had to leave us after the Titanic but b\we decided to stay and check out a few more of the exhibits. 

An outdoor water splash area and play area

A Texas Cattle Driver

Digging up Dinosaur Bones

Checking out Dinosaur Bones and Learning about Natural Gas in Texas

The Fort Worth Museum was so much fun and it was a great day!