Parents Guide to Kohl Children`s Museum of Greater Chicago

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Parents Guide to
Kohl Children’s Museum
of Greater Chicago
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2100 Patriot Boulevard
Glenview, Illinois 60026
(847) 832-6600
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Program Rooms
Museum Café
Restrooms
Group Welcome Center
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Coats and Strollers
Infant Areas
McCormick Tribune Main Street
Water Works
Traveling Exhibit Gallery
Powered by Nature
Potbelly Sandwich Works
Play Library
Pet Vet
Nature Explorers
Music Makers
Hands On House
Habitat Park
Dominick’s
Doll Day Care
Cooperation Station
City on the Move
Car Care
All About Me
Adventures in Art
Table of Contents
Adventures in Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
All About Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Car Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
City on the Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Cooperation Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Doll Day Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Dominick’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Habitat Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Hands on House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Music Makers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Nature Explorers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Pet Vet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Play Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Potbelly Sandwich Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Powered by Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Water Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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Adventures
in Art
1. This exhibit is quieter with stations for children
to participate in art and science activities that
promote hand skills and coordination.
2. In the spring, the Museum hatches live chicks;
in the summer children can watch monarch
butterflies go through metamorphosis.
Observing animals can be
calming for some children.
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All About Me
1. The red “pinpression” can be a unique tactile,
whole body experience. Children can press
fingers, hands, arms or their entire bodies into
these stiff rounded pins and then view the
shape they created.
2. Children can record their voices and play it
back slow or very fast. Be wary of the volume –
if a child screams into it, the playback will also
scream.
3. Encourage creativity and hand skill
development with the use of the water-based
face paints.
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Car Care
1. The car seats and seat belts may be calming to
children who enjoy enclosed spaces or deep
pressure.
2. The car wash may be overwhelming to
children with visual and auditory sensitivity.
Encourage use of both hands while using
tools.
Consider demonstrating how to build the
toy cars for your child.
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City on the Move
1. This exhibit is quieter than others and includes
math and science activities that incorporate
hand skills and discovery based activities.
2. Your child can predict which shapes will float
on a jet stream of air.
3. A large magnet wall encourages pattern
making and geometric design creations.
Encourage your child to watch the
“floating” objects.
Practice hand skills at the magnet wall.
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Cooperation
Station
1. Cooperation Station has many options for
motor development.
2. There is a bench in this area if you or your child
needs or wants to take a break.
Children can improve strength and endurance while pedaling and pumping in
Cooperation Station.
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Doll Day Care
1. Doll Day Care is one of the quieter exhibits.
Visit here to take a break if your child becomes
overwhelmed.
2. Consider using the child-sized rocking chair if
your child needs calming, rhythmic movement.
Your child can practice balance skills while
placing a baby in the crib.
Press with a pointer finger to hear different
languages and speech sounds.
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Dominick’s
1. Structure children’s play by providing specific
instructions as they pick out food items,
re‑shelve, move through the checkout line, and
take on different roles within the exhibit.
2. To prevent over-crowding there is often a line
outside Dominick’s, which requires children
to wait and determines how long they will be
able to enjoy the exhibit.
Children can practice balance while
pushing and placing food in the cart and
carrying the basket.
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Children can practice hand skills while
scanning and bagging groceries.
Habitat Park
1. Walk through the underground tunnel and
notice the change in temperature and daylight.
2. Explore the sensory garden and guess objects
in the feely boxes.
3. Use coordination to paint a slate wall with
water, and then watch it evaporate.
Children have the opportunity to release a lot of energy in
this completely enclosed park through climbing, rolling,
hopping and running.
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Hands on House
1. Hands on House offers a variety of
opportunities for children to participate in
simple and relaxing activities.
• Placing “bricks” on outside of house/hanging wallpaper
inside
• Carrying carpet squares
• Using paint rollers to “paint” walls
2. There are also several physical activities for
children to enjoy.
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Pushing the wheelbarrow
Turning the crank on the conveyor belt/bulldozer
Carrying paint cans
Catching bean bags as they fall from the conveyor belt
Music Makers
1. Children will experience cause and effect
relationships throughout the entire exhibit
while making and listening to music.
2. Before entering Music Makers, consider how
many families are using this exhibit as it can be
loud and overwhelming.
There are a variety of opportunities to
practice hand skills.
Check the volume of the headphones
before placing them on your child’s ears.
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Nature Explorers
1. Practice balance and movement while walking,
hopping, and jumping on logs and stepping
stones.
2. Nature Explorers is in the center of several other
exhibits, not contained in a room of its own,
and may be overwhelming for some children.
There is a hollow tree and book corner with
large floor pillows if your child needs or
wants to take a break.
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Some adult assistance is necessary to build
plastic animals.
Pet Vet
1. To promote hand skill development, have
your child use the squirt bottles, open/close
jars, dress in lab coats, manipulate X-rays, or
bandage animals.
2. Pet Vet is a small, tight space with little room
for movement. This may be calming for some
children and overwhelming for others.
Encourage imaginary play while pretending to take on different roles in the veterinarian’s
office.
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Play Library
1. Play Library is one of the quieter exhibits. Large
floor pillows and a rocking chair are available if
your child needs or wants to take a break.
2. Encourage children to name the pictures in the
books to practice using new vocabulary.
Carrying and re-shelving books is a simple
and relaxing activity.
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Have your child point to words/pictures
in books to expand vocabulary and turn
pages to practice hand skills.
Potbelly
Sandwich Works
1. Children can practice cooperation skills while
sharing foods and equipment with other
children.
2. Potbelly Sandwich Works is a very small and very
popular exhibit with little space to move around.
Balance and personal space may be challenged.
Your child can practice sequencing skills by
making sandwiches in a step-by-step order.
Your child can practice hand skills
while dressing with aprons and
turning the crank on the toaster.
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Powered
by Nature
1. This is a quiet area where children can press
buttons to make miniature wind turbines
move.
2. Solar houses are manipulated to turn on lights
powered by the sun.
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Water Works
1. Children will experience cause and effect
relationships and practice hand skills
throughout Water Works as they splash,
squeeze, push and pull a variety of levers and
buttons.
2. This exhibit may be overwhelming to a child
that is sensitive to smells.
3. Be aware that there are sprays of water
throughout the exhibit that may startle a
sensitive child.
There are smocks and hand dryers available
outside of Water Works; however, it is likely
that you and your child will get wet!
To promote coordinated eye movement,
watch the floating jellyfish, moving balls, or
spraying water.
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