This week’s Tuesday playdate with Gab’s homeschool buddy took us to Dino Play at The Mind Museum.
Thank you Tita Nadia and Rio for inviting us to join you!
The Dino Play treats everyone, the young and the young-at-heart, to be a paleontologist to explore the world of the dinosaurs who roamed the earth about 230 million years ago.
The Dino Play exhibit has several sections: Dino Dig, Dino Lab, Dino Fun and the Dino Den
In Dino Dig, you will experience to dig for dinosaur bones. You will get a chance to excavate fossil replicas in the sand boxes.
excavating fossils at Dino Dig
The Dino Fun is the biggest section of the exhibit. There’s a sandbox activity tables where kids can mold and create their own fossils.
It also has a wall puzzle showing the dinosaur family tree and another wall for building a dinosaur using different shapes. The dino fun also houses the Dino Lookout Tower which you can use to spot dinosaurs around the canopy plaza.
activities at Dino Fun
Inside the Dino Lab, you will get inspect up close real dinosaur fossils. They have real dinosaur bones and dino poop, called coprolites. They also have exhibits of replicas of a baby dinosaur and eggs.
real dinosaur fossils (poop and bones) at Dino Lab
The Dino Den is the most favorite of the kids. Here they can wear dino costumes or get dino tails. The area houses a dinosaur nests with 3 dino eggs. It has a slide and some puzzles kids can play.
with the dino eggs at Dino Den
Around Dino Play are some facts and trivias about dinosaurs. Even passers by can read them as they are displayed at the walls of the dinoplay area.
Dino Play Rates:
Dino Play (No Museum Tour) – Php 100/ adult, Php 200/ child
This is limited to 90 minutes of play time at a schedule timeslot
Dino Play + The Mind Museum – Php 700/ adult, Php 650/ child
Dinoplay is a travelling exhibition. It will stay at The Mind Museum Canopy Plaza until September 2016. Check more details at The Mind Museum website.
