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
"Recycling Center" Now Showing
Habitot's popular Recycling Center exhibit, returned
on May 2, gives young children a hands-on experience sorting
and classifying bottles, cans and newspapers (in friendly
foam shapes) and filling dumpsters and bins with recyclables.
Activities support early math and science concepts. Grown-ups
will be able to pick up information about recycling, reuse,
and reducing our impact on the environment. The Rocketship
and Mission Control exhibit will blast off to the Children's
Museum in Truckee, CA through the end of the year.
 |
|
 |
| Sorting recyclables in the 'Recycling Center' and learning about the environment. |
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.
You can download this month's Art
Studio Calendar PDF for daily art studio activities, Family
Art Days and special events especially for family participation.
Family Art Days takes place on Sundays, September through
May
The Annual Preschool
Art Show begins in January
Learn more about our Hands-on
Art Studio Program
Visit our 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.
Back to Top
|
