Nursery Sensory Play: Clay
Join Aermine and Sabrina in the Nursery to explore how different forms of clay look, feel, or even smell! Learners can practice molding, sculpting, or squishing the different kinds of clay.
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 Sensory Play: Is It Paint? Natural Pigments
Join Aermine and Sabrina in the Nursery to explore how different natural pigments can be used to create paint! Learners will use commonly found household items for their exploration and will have the opportunity to smell and feel their paintings.
Visitors will use items like spices, teabags, and water to create with.
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 Sensory Play: Scent Sachets
Join Aermine and Sabrina in the Nursery to create your own scent sachet with fresh spring scents! Children will notice how different smells make us feel and experiment with scent combinations.
We’ll ask questions like, is this sweet? is this stinky?
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 Sensory Play: Nature Stamping
Join Aermine and Sabrina in the Nursery to explore how natural materials can be used as art tools! We will try using items from nature like moss and natural sponge to make our own stamps, explore texture, and paint.
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.
Join us in MAKESHOP as we explore the process of felting! Use friction, soap and water to create a non-woven fabric from sheep’s wool.
Nursery Sensory Play: Ribbon Dancers
Join Aermine and Sabrina in the Nursery to create ribbon dancers! Explore different ribbon, yarn, and flagging tape materials to tie onto a small hoop, which can be held while we move and dance or move our bodies!
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 Sensory Play: Color Lab
Join Aermine and Sabrina in the Nursery for a color mixing lab! We will explore our primary colors – red, yellow, and blue, and try mixing new colors! Color wheels will be available to help us mix our favorite colors.
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 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 Sensory Play: Nature Sound Bottles
Join Aermine and Sabrina in the Nursery to create a Nature Sound Bottle. Learners will use natural materials like sticks or pinecones to explore elements of sound and texture!
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 Sensory Play: Shadows
Join Aermine and Sabrina in the Nursery for to create shadows! Learners will explore how light helps to create a shadow.
Learners will trace themselves, blocks, or both with chalk on paper!
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 Sensory Play: The Nose Knows
Join Aramae in the Nursery to explore olfactory sensory scents! Children will notice how different smells make us feel and experiment with scent combinations.
We’ll ask questions like, is this sweet? is this stinky?
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.
Studio Sensory Play: Animal Shaving Cream Rescue
Join Aramae in the Studio for an animal shaving cream rescue! Learners will use tools like popsicle sticks, water droppers, and brushes to explore messy shaving cream and search for tiny animals.
Tools and gloves will be provided, but visitors are welcome to use their hands to explore!
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.
How does air make things move? Experiment with different materials and place your creations into a wind tunnel. Can you make things soar, tumble, fly or fall?
In honor of Black History Month, explore books and resources about Black aviators, astronauts, and aerospace engineers who soared to new heights.
Nursery Sensory Play: Is It Paint? Natural Pigments
Join Aramae in the Nursery to explore how different natural pigments can be used to create paint! Learners will use commonly found household items for their exploration and will have the opportunity to smell and feel their paintings.
Visitors will use items like spices, teabags, and water to create with.
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 Sensory Play: Squishy Paint Bags
Join Aramae and Nora in the Nursery to make a squishy paint bag! Visitors will use materials like tin foil and bubble wrap to explore texture while squishing paint together to mix new colors.
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.
Water Sensory Play: Habitat Building
Join us in Waterplay to create habitats for penguins and polar bears! We’ll experience how ice and water feels.
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 Sensory Play: Texture Scavenger Hunt
Join us in the Nursery for a texture scavenger hunt! We will have familiar textures to feel and then will explore the space around us to find objects that feel or look similar.
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.
Explore hand sewing with extra cozy materials. We’ll work with fleece, felt, and other fuzzy fabrics and attach them using needles and thread.
