I definitely recommend it for anyone with school-age kids, or with preschool age kids that you can spend time one-on-one with. It is a pretty simple museum, consisting of many hands-on activities in only three rooms. My toddler enjoyed it, but it was difficult to keep her away from the older kids who were intent on their activities. My kindergartner had a wonderful time, but would have benefited from either a friend or an adult who was able to focus only on her.
The museum had an entire room filled with large foam blocks, enough for many kids to build entire houses at once. It had a large table with plenty of K'nex materials to build cars, and a double ramp with digital timing to race the completed cars. It also had many other tables with gears, small blocks, programable robots, etc. An entire room was dedicated to color blending and spotlights.
Both girls enjoyed drawing pictures and putting them into a machine that rotated the pictures quickly so that your eyes saw both sides of the picture at the same time.
There were two enormous fun-house mirrors that provided lots of entertainment. Elizabeth liked looking short, while I liked looking tall and thin!
A "light harp" had laser lights as strings, and was very fun to play.
Elizabeth's favorite was a pulley system that you could use to lift each other up.
These are just a few of the many activities at the Works Museum. Every family should try to get a free pass to this museum! It's definitely worth it. For kindergartners and older, I think it's even worth the $5 fee, which is high praise from me!
As a bonus, just outside the community center is a bridge over Highway 100 that Elizabeth loves to run across. You have to walk up a spiral sidewalk to get on it, and she begs to go on it every time we drive by!
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