Each of the museum's small-scale exhibits and galleries creates a context for learning, accessible to children with different learning styles. Each stage setting provides multiple opportunities for language development, role-playing, fantasy play, social interaction and physical activity. The stage settings provide one of the best opportunities to reflect the environment, culture and values of the Bay Area. The fan-generated breeze gives the sensation of the wind in your face.
Children learn to manipulate hand-held objects in the wind to maximum motion.
Multisensory learning is a key component of this exhibit. Some of the items in the grocery bins, plastic sushi rolls, matzo bread, burritos and mangos, have sparked conversations between families identifying foods common to their cultures. Currently resembling an ant farm, the wall lets young children wiggle through the maze like earthworms while parents watch their progress throughout. Parents will be delighted to learn that the net-covered windows are easily removable in case toddlers can't find their way back down. Habitot's third dramatic arts stage exhibit will be accompanied by a series of art, science and cooking activities plus special events like mini-farmer's markets, puppet shows, ice cream making days and homestead crafts.