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.
Measurement Rules Sensory Play: Scooping and Pouring
Join Nora in Measurement Rules to practice our fine motor skills as we scoop and pour white beads! We will listen for sounds that the beads make when they fall and see how the beads feel in our hands.
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: Peg and Loop Tables
Join Nora in the Studio to explore our peg and loop tables! Pull pegs in and out, wrap loops around and around.
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 making paper. We’ll recycle old scraps into new, usable paper. How do you use paper in your daily life?
Measurement Rules Sensory Play: Scooping and Pouring
Join Nora in Measurement Rules to practice our fine motor skills as we scoop and pour white beads! We will listen for sounds that the beads make when they fall and see how the beads feel in our hands.
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: Pour, pour, pour!
Join Nora in Waterplay to explore pouring into different vessels. We’ll examine how the water looks in different shaped containers.
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: Sand ABCs
Join Nora in the Nursery to create sand ABCs! We’ll use paintbrushes to write letters and explore if the paintbrushes make a sound when they brush against the sand or tables.
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: Sand Patterns
Join Nora in the Nursery to create sand patterns! Explore the textures and sounds of sand between our fingertips, tools, and toys.
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 Nora at the ice table in Waterplay to create habitats for penguins and polar bears! We’ll experience how ice and water feels as we build.
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: Drip, Mix, Swirl
Join Aramae and Nora in the Nursery to explore the properties of liquid and color through creating a sensory or calm down bottle! Sensory bottles are filled with slow moving things such as glitter, beads, or marbles for us to watch with our eyes and slow our breathing.
Visitors will use water, liquid watercolor, and small trinkets for their creations.
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 Hannah and Nora in our Community Garden in front of the Museum every Wednesday morning from 11:00 -11:45 am to help tend the garden.
Each week we will learn basic tips and tricks about how to care for a garden, while having an opportunity to explore sensory play and develop motor skills. This program is designed with our youngest visitors in mind, but all are welcome to attend!
Activities are weather permitting, but don’t be afraid to get wet.
This program does not require museum admission and is free and open to the public.
Join Hannah and Nora in the Studio every Wednesday morning from 11:00 -11:45 am to learn about basic gardening tips and tricks.
This week, we’ll explore microgreens! We’ll observe actively growing microgreens and start our own batches to take home.
Each week we will learn basic tips and tricks about how to care for a garden, while having an opportunity to explore sensory play and develop motor skills. This program is designed with our youngest visitors in mind, but all are welcome to attend!
Join Hannah and Nora in the Studio every Wednesday morning from 11:00 -11:45 am to learn basic gardening tips and tricks.
This week, we will explore plant-based pigments, talk about where we might find them in nature, and see how they react to different pH levels. We will also try painting with these pigments.
Each week we will learn basic tips and tricks about how to care for a garden, while having an opportunity to explore sensory play and develop motor skills. This program is designed with our youngest visitors in mind, but all are welcome to attend!
