Toys For Your Child’s Healthy Development
December is often gift-giving time with all the holidays that occur. Children get excited with all the new toys that they get. But let’s take a moment to think about the…
Cover Your Cough and Sneeze! How to Teach Kids to Cough/Sneeze into Their Sleeves
When I’m on the floor doing programs and staffing exhibits, it almost seems like everyone is sick as I hear people coughing and sneezing all around the Museum. As the winter…
Indigenous Halloween Costumes: Empowering or Problematic?
By Sara Tess Neumann and Meghan Evans Recent issues have arisen with the lack of career costumes available for girls, or the prevalence of sexualized costumes for young children. Empowering…
Borrowed and Returned
One of the most frequently asked questions I have here in collections is, “How did the Museum get all this stuff?!” (Considering how eclectic our collections are, that question is…
Relaxation for Everyone
We all live in a stressful world. There are so many demands from work and other parts of our lives. Just being in environments with a lot of noise, material,…
Poetry Collage
I recently offered a poetry collage workshop in the Museum’s Art Studio, focusing specifically on free-association and shaped poetry. Too often, writing in schools is presented in a way that…
Enjoy the Summer with Watermelon!
Summer is watermelon season! Watermelon is very nutritious and offers a lot of opportunities for creativity for children. Enjoy watermelon while we have it fresh and ripe as a seasonal…
Joyful Discoveries: Evaluating the Museum Visitor Experience
How many visitors drive the Bobcats in Construction Zone on a typical day? Do visitors in PlaySpace use the resources we create for them? If a child doesn’t get to…
The Power of Play 