Hands-on Discovery
Habitot's hands on exhibits and indoor play areas are especially
for infants, toddlers and young children. The museum's six
small-scale theme exhibits create a learning, discovery and
play space for kids and their families. Fun exhibits encourage
parent child interactions with multi-sensory learning games
and activities. Exhibits reflect the ethnically diverse and
environmentally sensitive Bay Area community.Exhibits are
open daily. Animated
Exhibits Tour
Exhibit News
Rocketship Blasts Off!
Thanks to eight stalwart families, Habitot raised nearly $2,500 to refurbish and bring back the always-popular Rocketship and Mission Control exhibit which is sure to be enjoyed by 10,000 or more visitors.
Go inside our 13 foot-long, child sized rocket ship, steer the ship, look through the nose cone to the beautiful hand-painted mural of outer space, see fuel injectors bubbling and find lots of buttons and dials to push. There are astronaut suits, helmets and space boots, too! Outside, the mission control bank of phones, buttons, levers and controls helps astronauts have a safe journey. Check out the sound tube that lets astronauts talk to mission control.
The exhibit is here for just five months (through September 2010) so don't wait to visit! There are some new elements for those who remember the previous installation and we're developing out-of-this-world activities for Outer Space Month in July, and a special space science speaker's series in June.
Donations are needed and welcome to support new exhibits at Habitot. Please contact Gina at habitot@lmi.net, or 510-647-1111 x11.
Habitot's Space Science Series
With prize winning scientists and world-class science museums in our backyard, we've pulled together a June Saturday Science Series with a focus on space sciences, in celebration of our Rocketship and Mission Control exhibit. Come hear ideas from scientists for getting young kids interested in astronomy, moon craters and sun & shadows.
Current Exhibits
Waterworks
The Water play gallery offers three components: river
ramp for creating and damming streams; a pumping station problem
solving activity and a water table filled with waterwheels,
buckets with holes, pitchers and fishing rods; activities
help young children formulate scientific concepts of gravity
and motion, the power of falling water, and pumping.Surrounding
walls offer mural-making with foam blocks on a water/ocean
theme.
Drop-in Art Studio
Every day, a new activity in Habitot's Drop-in Art
Studio! Come prepared to "get messy" with creative,
open-ended art -- just what young children need for brain
development and hands-on skills. The studio features an enormous
paintable wall for murals and group painting projects; a sculpture
table with clay, play-doh, gak or other sculpture material;
and a mixed-media table offering collage, printing, finger
painting, foam painting, recycled art, paper mache -- a different
activity every day. The studio is staffed full-time with knowledgeable
art educators.
Family Art Days - Takes place on Sundays, September through
May
The Annual Preschool
Art Show - Begins in January!
Hands-on
Art Studio Program - Learn more!
Hands-on
Art Studio Gallery
Little Town Grocery & Café
Small-scale shopping carts, fruits, vegetables and
breads sorted into grocery bins, and cash registers create
the context of a grocery, while at the adjacent counters,
on bar stools and at tables of the café, parents and
children order from menus and serve food to customers; experiences
in this exhibit facilitate social learning and parent-child
interactions. Some of the items in the grocery bins, plastic
sushi rolls, matzo bread, burritos and mangos, have sparked
conversations between families identifying foods common to
their cultures.
Infant-Toddler Garden
A picket fence/gated area especially for infants, crawlers
and early walkers. Floor to ceiling murals and softly carpeted
floor surround the very young with the images of a garden;
interactives like a wooden carrot patch for harvesting and
replacing carrots, a Velcro wall of soft block shapes, a pretend
pond and a butterfly mobile provide appropriate tactile and
visual stimulation for infants. The culture of food, gardening
and agriculture is well-developed in the Bay Area and this
exhibit introduces these themes in developmentally-appropriate
ways.
Wiggle Wall
Gives children a worm's eye view of their underground
tunnels; children navigate through a vertical maze of simple
passageways from floor-to-ceiling; parents and children can
see each other through net covered openings and giant optic
lenses; exhibit presents memory challenges, builds confidence
and helps children see the world through someone else's eyes.
To support future exhibit development,
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