Home Zone
Want to take the Museum experience home with you? Kohl Children’s Museum is happy to provide this remote learning video series with stories, activities and experiments that you can easily replicate at home with your families. Bookmark this page for new updates! Our site is growing daily with more in STEAM activities and Teaching Resources, as well as a current weekly deep dive into each of our exhibit environments with our Kohl Kids Live! programming. Also, hear our educators read stories aloud at Story Time. Tiempo de Cuentos: Escuchar a nuestros educadores leer historias en voz alta.
Theatrical Mask Making
Make a homemade mask and take on a new character!
DIY Puffy Paint
Create your own puffy paint at home!
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Airplanes: Lets Fly!
It’s time to tinker! Become an engineer by creating your own flying machine.
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Sunny Day Painting
Explore properties of water and watch evaporation happen by “painting” with water in the sun.
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Cool Tool Creations
Create a tool that helps perform a job more effectively.
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The Wheel Deal
Explore how wheels help move objects and reduce friction.
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Drying it Out
Explore how used paper can be recycled into new paper.
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Homemade Paper
Explore how used paper can be recycled into new paper.
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Recycled Towers
Collect household items to create the tallest or the widest tower you can!
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Funky Brushes Kitchen Painting
Ready to paint but don’t have any brushes? No worries, anything can be a brush, even forks and spatulas
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Newspaper Super Sculptures
Build structures using newspaper and other materials.
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Assemblage Art
Combine various materials together to explore the concept of assemblage art.
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Strong, Sturdy, Structures
Use every day and recycled materials to create bridges and towers to support different weight sizes!
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From Trash to Treasure: Bottle Art
Create art from recycled materials while understanding the need to eliminate litter and be kind to our earth.
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Math About Me
Use your own name and attributes to explore measurement.
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Strike up the Band
Combine materials to discover the different sounds you can make with your own constructed instrument.
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Absorb & Repel
Investigate how different materials repel or absorb water.
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Vibrations
Explore vibrations out in nature or by creating a spoon vibration machine.
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Let it Roll
Design a ball run by using recycled materials to make objects move at different speeds.
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Fabric Counts
Create your own bar graph by sorting and Graphing. To download a PDF and learn more, click here.
Recycled Towers
Collect household items to create the tallest or the widest tower you can!
To download a PDF and learn more, click here.
Mathematizing Weather
Explore how we can use math to sort clothes for different weather
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Fly Swatter Painting
Discover unique patterning and express yourself through painting.
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Bubbleology
Let’s explore the science (and fun) of making bubbles!
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Home Zone en Español
Vamos a Contar en Nuestra Ciudad Explorar como organizar una cantidad de algo usando un grafico
Para descargar un documento PDF para una actividad relacionada, haga clic aquí
Patrones Perfectos Como identificar que es un patrón y como formar un patrón usando movimiento.
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Arte Absorbente Investigar la reacción del agua contra diferentes materiales para grabar si el agua se absorbe.
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Brochas Divertidas ¿Listos para pintar, pero no tienen brochas? No se preocupen, cualquier cosa puede ser una brocha de pintar como un tenedor y espátula
Para descargar un documento PDF para una actividad relacionada,haga clic aquí
Estructuras Fuertes
¡Usar materiales de todos los días y materiales reciclados para crear puentes y torres para soportar diferentes tamaños de peso!
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Poder de la Torre
Explorar figuras en 2D Y 3D usando los diferentes atributos de cada figura
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¿Cuánto Cabe?
Explorar la capacidad de diferentes recipientes.
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Pésalo (Weigh it)
Estudiantes exploraran medidas usando diferentes materiales
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Recursos en español
Para mas informacion contacte Natalia Ruiz
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Remote Learning Links
Tech expert Amanda Armstrong guides parents in selecting child-friendly apps for your family.
At Home Engineering
As we all figure out new learning at home strategies, DiscoverE has collected a series of articles which offer suggestions, activities with just a few materials, and videos you can use to engage your students or child in engineering.
Check out this list of virtual activities offered by children’s museums, which we will continue to be updated regularly.
Caring for Each Other
Sesame Street #CaringForEachOther
Why Learning at Home Should Be More Self-Directed—and Less Structured
AAP: Finding Ways to Keep Children Occupied During These Challenging Times
GLR Learning Tuesdays Webinars
Kohl Children’s Museum is a partner in the Waukegan Campaign for Grade Level Reading. It is a great collaborative effort to improve pre-k -3rd grade education. They are hosting weekly webinars.
- Click for free access to a library of four grade-specific digital editions of TIME for Kids
- Scholastic Learn at Home site
In Collaboration
We are working in collaboration with the Association of Children’s Museums to share helpful content from our Partner institutions.
From Children’s Museum Houston
From Daily Dose of Play, Children’s Discovery Museum
Our Parent/Caregiver Resource, is a curated selection of child-friendly, helpful resources specifically related to the Coronavirus.
In trying times like these, we think of the wise quote from the late Mr. Fred Rogers’ mother: in times of anxiety, “Look for the Helpers.” Since we have had to temporarily close our doors to the public, we more than ever need your financial support to keep providing online resources for home during this crisis, however long the need, and to ensure a healthy, happy place for play and learning when we are able to re-open. Please donate today and be a Helper to keep Kohl Children’s Museum a vibrant part of the early childhood community.
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