Home or Classroom Activities
Take a look at some of our favorite activities that you can do on your own. Tried, true and tested at Chicago Children's Museum!
- Branching Art From Nature
- Bring It Home: Create Your Own Guiro
- Bring It Home: Create Your Own Migajon
- Bring It Home: Create Your Own Pinata
- Bring It Home: Create Your Own Shadow Puppets
- Bring It Home: Create Your Own Tokhm-e Morgh—Decorated Egg
- Bring It Home: Create Your Own Taino Rock Art
- Bring It Home: Animal Tracks
- Bring It Home: Saint Lucia Day Crown
- Bring It Home: Shakers
- Bring It Home: Drums
- Clay Exploration
- Drawing From Nature
- Glove Gardens
- Invent on the Spot
- Wonder Underground
- Pre-School Ball Run
- Rocket Launchers
- Animal Rod Puppets
- Build a Fort!
- Imagination Fabric
- Make a Mobile!
- Think Shrink! Creating Symbols of Strengths
- Thankful Cards
- Wish Amulets
- 30 Ways to Use a Cardboard Box
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Born to Move
Wonder Kids Activities
For Educators
Below are articles, lesson plans, and activities to enhance classroom curriculum for pre-K through third-grade students.
- Art About Me Curriculum Guide
- Be a Bug Curriculum Guide
- Coaster Challenge
- Dino Detectives
- Dinosaur Expedition Curriculum Guide
- Forts
- From Head to Toe Curriculum Guide
- Inside/Out Curriculum Guide
- Insect Investigators Curriculum Guide
- Inventing Lab Curriculum Guide
- Make a Mural
- Secrets of Painting Curriculum Guide
- Simple Machines Curriculum Guide
- Skyline Curriculum Guide
- Story Forest Curriculum Guide
- WaterWays Curriculum Guides
- Play in Practice
Activities Showcased at 2011 CMAEYC
- Active Graphs
- Motivated to Move
- Rolling Paint
- Work Up an Appetite
- Work Up an Appetite Game Guide
- Work Up an Appetite Illustration Helper
CCM Publications
Chicago Children's Museum takes play seriously. Review some of our recent publications here.
The Built Environment
Click here for The Built Environment, a hands-on educational program that explores engineering concepts through the lens of architecture.
Professional Consulting
The education, exhibit and design professionals at Chicago Children's Museum are available to consult on your project, from brainstorming to implementation. We have expertise in:
- child development
- design of environments for play and learning
- educational programs for children and adults
- professional development for educators and parents
- visual and performing arts programming
- first-person cultural programming
- supporting family learning
- effective community partnerships
Please contact us to discuss your needs and ideas; we want to help support play and learning in your community.