Waterworks
River ramps and water tables offer endless opportunities for children to discover nature’s most interesting liquid: water! Buckets, funnels, waterwheels, pitchers, and other toys encourage hand-to-eye coordination and problem solving.
What We’re Learning & Skills We’re Practicing
- Sensory exploration – Learning about liquid and temperature using our sense of touch
- Pouring – Playing with cups, buckets, and funnels to practice filling and pouring
- Buoyancy – Seeing which objects (like toys and hand-made boats) float and which objects sink
Ball Wall
Design your very own ball run with endless combinations of tubes, gutters, and more on our giant magnetic wall! A fun way to learn about gravity, probability, and object permanence through play.
Skills We’re Practicing & What We’re Learning
- Strategizing – coming up with a map and planning the best way to roll the balls across/down the wall
- Problem solving – adding and removing tubes from the wall to see what happens
- Gravity – seeing the natural force that helps the ball move from the top of the wall to the bottom
Imagination Playground
Build a fort, a ball ramp, or anything you can think of with Imagination Playground’s big foam blocks! A great activity for making new friends, dramatic play, and practicing gross motor skills.
Skills We’re Practicing & What We’re Learning
- Collaboration – working together with new friends to build something grand
- Imagination – thinking up creative ways to build a fort, a house, and other structures
- Gross motor skills – using the large muscles in our arms, legs, and feet to lift, climb, and jump
Rocket Launcher
Launch a rocket ship high into the sky with our hand-cranked, air-pressurized launching machine! Take turns testing your rockets while seeing propulsion and gravity in action.
Skills We’re Practicing & What We’re Learning
- Propulsion – seeing how the air-pressurized machine propels (launches) our rockets
- Fine motor skills – using the small muscles in our arms to grasp and rotate the hand crank
- Problem solving – working on how to best design and place our rockets so they launch high into the air
Paintable Wall
This beloved Habitot Art Studio activity lets children paint using whole body movements, collaborate with the newly-made friend standing next to them, and learn about mixing and making new colors.
Skills We’re Practicing & What We’re Learning
- Collaboration – working together with family and new friends to fill the wall with colorful paintings
- Fine motor skills – using the small muscles in our hands to grip and use a paintbrush
- Color mixing – mixing paint colors together to get new colors and shades
Baby Ball Pit
Babies and toddlers can enjoy a soft space to crawl and roll around in our colorful baby ball pit! A great place to practice tossing, catching, and color recognition.
Skills We’re Practicing & What We’re Learning
- Motor skills – using our small muscles to pick up and hold balls, and our large muscles to toss them and jump around
- Color recognition – seeing and naming the differently-colored balls
- Hand-eye coordination – tossing the balls out of and back into the pit