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414-390-KIDS (5437)
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Curious George: Let's Get Curious!
11/24/07-6/1/08
Sponsored by: Northwestern Mutual Foundation; national tour sponsored by 3M; with media sponsors Clear Channel Outdoor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, MPTV and 94.5 WKTI
 The insatiable curiosity of Curious George – the little monkey who has captured the imagination and hearts of millions of children and adults for 65 years – comes to life at the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum November 24!
The new exhibit, Curious GeorgeTM: Let’s Get Curious!, is sponsored locally by the Northwestern Mutual Foundation and will be featured at the Museum through June 1, 2008. Young children will be introduced to Curious George’s world where they will find an interactive math, science and engineering-based adventure.
Based on the familiar characters in H.A. and Margret Rey’s classic stories published by Houghton Mifflin and the PBS KIDS® television series, the new Curious George exhibit inspires young children’s natural curiosity as they explore early science, math and engineering through hands-on interactive play. The immersive exhibit environment takes place in the neighborhood where Curious George lives with his friend, The Man with the Yellow Hat. Visitors will recognize familiar characters and places featured in the classic stories and the new television series produced by Imagine Entertainment, WGBH Boston and Universal Studios Family Productions that launched last fall on PBS KIDS and recently received its first Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Children’s Animated Program.
The exhibit was created by the Minnesota Children’s Museum in partnership with Universal Studios Consumer Products Group. The content is geared for children ages 3 - 7 and is based on educational standards developed by Minnesota Children’s Museum and an expert advisory panel to the PBS KIDS series, as well as national science and math standards for young children. The national exhibit tour is sponsored by 3M. Local media sponsors are Clear Channel Outdoor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee Public Television and 94.5 WKTI.
Inside the Exhibit
• Apartment Building
Operate wheels to move Curious George on pulleys from window to window. Climb the fire escape and climb inside to play with color, light and shadow.
• Sidewalk Produce Stand
Play customer or salesperson and explore shape, sorting, weighing and counting with fruit and vegetables.
• Construction Site
Climb into the construction trailer and design a building, then make use of a bounty of building materials and get to work constructing different structures while using machines to move materials.
• City Park
Enjoy the urban green space: rest or give a hug to a full-size Curious George and take a picture! Our youngest visitors will enjoy our busywall activities for babies and toddlers.
• Mini Golf
Use pipes, ramps, funnels, turntables, bumpers and force to experiment with physics and engineering as you putt through three holes of mini golf.
• Space Rocket
Climb into the rocket Curious George took on his space adventure! Catch a glimpse of George in his space suit, then take a picture from the control station and e-mail it home.
• Farm
Take a vacation to the country and visit the farm. Experience cause and effect and use wind power to move yard art like whirligigs, windmills, windsocks, and wind chimes. Build your own whirligig or windsock and care for the farm animals.
• Museum Within the Museum
Learn new things about Curious George when you visit the Museum within the Museum. Follow H.A. and Margret Rey’s work, the escape from France to safety during World War II that saved the Curious George manuscript, and Curious George throughout the years. |
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Sendik's Food Market Exhibit
10/25/07
Sponsored by: Sendik's Food Market; with additional support provided by Alterra Coffee Roasters, Breadsmith, GG Golden Guernsey Dairy®, Journal Sentinel Inc., Palermo's Pizza®, Sargento Foods, Inc. and Usinger's Famous Sausage
The Betty Brinn Children’s Museum will debut its new Sendik’s Food Market exhibit on Thursday, October 25. The pretend child-sized grocery store, modeled after a real Sendik’s Food Market, will become a permanent addition to A Trading Place, the Museum’s popular area that helps children learn how a community works.
The Sendik’s Food Market exhibit features exciting role-play and hands-on learning opportunities where children can make-believe they are the customer or the cashier, produce manager, baker, florist, deli worker, stocker or delivery driver. Activities in the exhibit will help young children develop a variety of academic and social skills, including basic math, problem solving, financial literacy, early literacy, and fine and gross motor skills.
The exhibit features a wide variety of kid-friendly merchandise to sort, stock and shop for, including familiar brand-name products of the exhibit’s local participating sponsors: Alterra Coffee Roasters, Breadsmith, GG Golden Guernsey Dairy®, Journal Sentinel Inc., Palermo’s Pizza®, Sargento Foods, Inc. and Usinger’s Famous Sausage. Exhibit signage will guide children to find the various “departments,” including produce, floral, meat and deli, dry and baked goods, dairy and frozen food. Helpful tips for caregivers to maximize the learning experience will be provided on signage in English and Spanish, and information on the USDA’s new MyPyramid food guidance system will be posted.
In the Exhibit
• Classic Delivery Truck
Children can reach up high to pick apples in the pretend orchard, collect them in crates, load the produce in a kid-size Sendik’s Food Market delivery truck and climb into the cab to deliver their product to the Market.
• Fresh Produce
Little shoppers can sort and match different fruits and vegetables in the produce department, weigh “fresh” items on the hanging scale and stock the faux iced shelves. If freshly squeezed orange juice is on the shopping list, then a push of a button sends the juicer whirring and shoppers can “fill” their juice containers.
• Deli/Meat Counter
Kids can serve the next customer at the meat counter by changing the digital “now serving” display, calling the next number and helping them with their meat and seafood selections. At the deli, a variety of prepared food selections can be packaged, weighed on the digital scale and made “to go.” Specialty sandwiches can be made-to-order at the deli’s sandwich stacking station and the soup of the day can be ladled from the tureen.
• Grocery Shelves/Freezer & Cooler
Whether shopping for staples or collecting items from a prepared grocery list, children can grab a basket or cart and shop for dry goods or today’s newspaper in the grocery aisles. Helpful stockers can be identified by wearing an apron, and graphics featured on the shelves will aide them as they group and restock grocery items in the correct place. The smell of ground coffee will fill the air as coffee beans are poured into the pretend coffee grinder, then set the dial to the desired fineness and push a button to “grind.” The freezer and cooler, complete with a blower and sliding doors, hold some favorite household items – milk, cheese, pizza and popsicles.
• Bakery Counter
Shelves are filled with an assortment of baked goods, including different loaves of bread, rolls, muffins and cupcakes. For that special occasion, children can arrange and assemble the pieces of a special cake-shaped puzzle, flipping it over to choose “Happy Birthday” or “Congratulations.”
• Floral Department
Children can mix and match different kinds of flowers to create their own floral bouquets and practice tying a bow to secure their creation together.
• Checkout Lane
Cashiers at the checkout counter have a working register with play money, a scanner that beeps and a phone that can call the deli department or other businesses in A Trading Place. Children will learn money-management skills as their purchases are totaled and they pay the cashier. Purchases are placed in the bag, and then slide down a chute, ready to be collected and restocked in the market. |
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