Games and Activities For Kids & Parents
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Check out the following kid's games and activities that are based around Museum exhibits.
Old Fire TruckCome play on our fire truck and fire pole, but when you're at home you can visit these sites for game, activities and coloring pages.
•Fire Safety for Kids
www.firesafety.gov/kids/
Become a Jr. Fire Marshall and play fun games while learning about fire safety.
•Sparky the Fire Dog
www.sparky.org/
Sparky provides kids with fun games and activities related to fire safety.
FETCH Lab The FETCH lab is build around kids and the PBS program "FETCH with Ruff Ruffman" and provides problem solving activities for kids.
Cabin N' Camp
Enchanted Forest
The Enchanted Forest allows visitors to enjoy a "make believe" world of knights, castles, and woodland creates. Here are some links to make your own "make believe" world at home
•ZOOM! by kids for kids
Old Colony Train
Our train station provides kids the oppertunity to be the conductor of their very own train.
•Trakkies
www.trakkies.co.uk/
This site is perfect for the kid who loves trains from a history of trians to train brain teasers.
The Performance Center
This exhibit provides kids with the oppertunity to make music, paint their faces, and create masks to put on a show.
•ZOOM! by kids for kids
Below are links for the ZOOM website that allows kids to create their own music.
•Make your own guitar
•Make your own straw kazoo
•Make your own music with a bottle and a spoon
•Make your own home-made masks
The Ol' Fishing BoatBe your own captain and set sail on a voyage on our boat exhibit and when at home check out these links to satisfy the sailor in you.
•Animated Knots
www.animatedknots.com/
Learn knot tying from animated pictures.
•ZOOM! By kids for kids
www.pbskids.org/zoom/activities/phenom/soappoweredboat.html
ZOOM teaches kids how to build a soap powered boat
•As well as how to build a soda bottle boat
Hammer, Glue, and Screw together wood to create your own individual works of art in our wood shop, but when your at home discover what else you can do with wood.
Kidsclinic
This exhibit is a doctor's office that kids actually want to go to!
•The Jump Up and Go Program
www.bluecrossma.com
Use the Jump Up and Go Programs to help provide kids with healthy activities.
•The Blue Cross kids
Arts and Crafts Room
Our Arts and Crafts Room provides kids with everything to be as creative as they want. Here are some fun websites that feature arts and crafts that can be done at home.
• Funburst
www.funburst.com/
Funburst provides arts and craft ideas and games for kids.
Post Office
Our Post Office allows kids to send kids friendly mail.
• The Sesame Street Mail Room
The Diner
This is our kitchen and diner built for kids and revolving around kids
•ZOOM! by kids for kids
• Nutrition Exploration: Kid's Nutrition
www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids/nutrition-main.asp
Nutrition and healthy eating revolving around kids.
The Wild Place is located on the grounds of the Museum. It is a happy, outdoor learning environment and is filled with a Dinosaur Garden and fossil pit, a Bird and Butterfly Garden, an African Garden, a Tree House, a Gazebo and picnic area. Try your hand at the nature scavenger hunt, solve the puzzle of the treasure map, perform (or watch a performance) at the Gazebo, blow some giant bubbles and lots more!
•Fossils for Kids
www.fossilsforkids.com/
This site unearths fossils for kids to look at
•Kids Dinos www.kidsdinos.com/ Dinosaurs are not a thing of the past, just click here.
•Peep and the Big Wide World
Provides outside activities as well as fun games, music and video, and coloring pages.
•Smithsonian National Zoological Park
www.nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Birds/ForKids/default.cfm
Check out the Smithsonian's bird related site if you like birds.
•National Bird-Feeding Society
www.birdfeeding.org/
Get tips on learning on how to feed birds.
