GOING PLACES
Seattle’s Child reader Beth Moore writes:
“I found this little gem of a place in our neighborhood in Roosevelt. The whole floor is covered with tumbled gemstones. You actually get into the stones, sit in them, play, identify them and, if you want to, buy some to take home. I have never seen my children have so much fun. My 7-year-old girl did not want to leave.
“The place is called the Scratch Patch. I met the owners while there and they are so nice. I just wanted to pass this along since it is such a unique concept which I have never seen before. They say it is the first in the United States.” (The concept began in South Africa, the home country of owner Amanda Lampert, and spread to Melbourne, Australia and Vancouver, B.C., before coming to Seattle last summer.)
