Nursery: Little Scientists
Join us in the Nursery to investigate the world around us! This week, we will explore out all the different tools we can use to look closely and learn about magnification. What can you find around the museum that looks different under a magnifying glass?
This program is designed with our youngest visitors in mind, but all visitors are welcome to join.
Nursery: Little Scientists
Join us in the Nursery to investigate the world around us! This week, we will explore the various textures of our world and inspect them up close–waaaay up close. Can you tell a zoomed-in image of a cantaloupe from a cockatoo? Put your lab coat on and check it out!
This program is designed with our youngest visitors in mind, but all visitors are welcome to join.
Nursery: Little Scientists
Join us in the Nursery to investigate the world around us! This week, we will explore Friends Underfoot. Examine jars collected from various environments in our neighborhood! Look for specimens from the pond or compost and meet your underfoot tiny neighbors. Put your lab coat on and examine why!
This program is designed with our youngest visitors in mind, but all visitors are welcome to join.
Nursery Sensory Play: Shadow Puppets
Join Aermine and Sabrina in the Nursery to create your own shadow puppet! Learners will use materials to explore how light passes through objects to make shadow patterns and can use items like paper, scissors, and popsicle sticks to design their own puppet!
This program is designed with our youngest visitors in mind, to support cognitive growth and give them an opportunity to develop motor skills, but all visitors are welcome to join. Sensory play can also be calming and soothing.
Nursery: Fine Motor Mondays
Join us in the Nursery to develop muscle strength and hand eye coordination. This week, we will practice stretching rubber bands around pegboards and try making different geometric shapes, small and large.
This program is designed with our youngest visitors in mind, to support brain growth and give them an opportunity to develop muscles in our hands and eyes, but all visitors are welcome to join.
Nursery: Fine Motor Mondays
Join us in the Nursery to develop muscle strength and hand eye coordination. This week, we will practice stretching rubber bands around mini pumpkins to attempt to make rubber band balls that bounce.
This program is designed with our youngest visitors in mind, to support brain growth and give them an opportunity to develop muscles in our hands and eyes, but all visitors are welcome to join.
Studio: Little Scientists
Join us in the Studio to investigate the world around us! This week, we will dissect owl pellets and search for bones. Put your lab coat on and examine why bones end up in these compact pellets!
This program is designed with our youngest visitors in mind, but all visitors are welcome to join.
Nursery: Little Scientists
Join us in the Nursery to investigate the world around us! This week, we will explore oobleck. Oobleck acts like a liquid when being poured, but acts like a solid when still. Put your lab coat on and examine why!
This program is designed with our youngest visitors in mind, but all visitors are welcome to join.
Explore hand sewing with extra cozy materials. We’ll work with fleece, felt, and other fuzzy fabrics and attach them using needles and thread.
Explore hand sewing with extra cozy materials. We’ll work with fleece, felt, and other fuzzy fabrics and attach them using needles and thread.
