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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.

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