Exporing Space as a Preschooler

NASA Moffett Field Base offers an opportunity to explore space as a family just like astronauts do. 
We head out in our van (The Spacecraft) to Moffet Field and arrive in outerspace. 

We enter the spacestation as the tour-guide explains what all the gadgets do in the ship.  The kids were awestruck.  They wanted to push buttons and ask a million questions.  Our guide was happy to answer all of them, even what is his favorite color LOL.

After the spacestation, they explored rockets, astronaut spacesuits, Mars, Earth, the Moon, moon rocks, videos on "What Happened to the Dinosaurs?", the "Final Broadcast of Last Space Shuttle Launch", and lab boxes with built in gloves. 

The kids were absolutely so excited to explore this space set up.  Once they completed their mission of exploring and asking many questions, we headed to Lakeside Park in Sunnyvale, which had a theme; SPACE.  What a great way to end our Fieldtrip.  We had lunch and took off in our Spacecraft back
home.

Even though they are only 2-4 years old, this opened up new dialogue and vocabulary opportunities for the children of the future.

Until another great adventure with PattyKakesKidz.

I had to share this photo.  The sun was right in their eyes so we had a lot of squinters.  We are with our friends from Tanya's Daycare too.  We love sharing our fieldtrips with our friends there.