• Some bones, fossils etc
• Plastic bugs
• Sea shells
• Plastic Dinosaurs
• Magnifying glasses
• Kaleidoscopes

You will need to Create, Collect, or get donations for the following:

• We need some chicken bones preferably leg bones use hydrogen peroxide to bleach the bones.

• Dinosaur Eggs and Geodes go here for instructions on how to make Dinosaur Eggs and Geodes


• Instead of doing plastic bins I thought it should look more like a real museum with displays so I made display trays [picture frame take out glass use back board cover in felt and put back in frame] for all the “exhibits” they are really cute and the kids can take the trays out play with them and easily put them back.

Under the stairs we will have a planetarium use fabric to darken the area we need to figure out how we are going to hang it use a planet light that will cast stars and other fabric that will be in this area as well. Since the light thing will be casting the light I was thinking it would be fun if we also hung CD’s from the ceiling area under the stairs the light will cast a rainbow effect which could be pretty cool.

I added Fabric that will cover all the turned over furniture.

You can see above how I covered the table with fabric so it looks like a nice display not an overturned table

I have donated a tiered tower which we are now calling the Sensory Tower.

We have Science Bottles

Feelie Gloves
Sound Jars
Smell Jars

• Sensory Baggies

• Rainbow Stew Baggies
and anything else super sensory oriented.

Click on any of the Sensory item pictures above or on their link titles for detailed instructions on how to make them and find some great ideas.

• For the OBJECTS for display trays that we made I was hoping to go for a natural History theme. Use fossils, shells, arrowheads, rocks etc add any ideas and items you might have.

• BRING CULTURAL ARTIFACTS YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THE KIDS TOUCHING AND PLAYING WITH

• We have baskets on the bottom row which have rocks, drift wood, dried flowers, silk flowers, and some different textured materials and some pinecones.

Silk flowers

Drift Wood

Pine Cones
• Use a framed mirror that lays flat and some Crystals and glass stones to put on it I placed flashlights near this so the kids can look through the crystals with some flashlights. Click the following link to see more activities with LIGHTS, MIRRORS, and GLASS


• Try to catch a caterpillar and other real bugs maybe a plant (African violet) in a two liter bottle so you can see the roots growing you can throw some worms in there to. Set up life cycle.

• I also thought it would be fun if was had a weekly science experiment going on on top of the shelves I was thinking we could do colored flowers. By taking 3 or 4 white carnations and putting them in water with food coloring they will change color we could even split the stem of one and stick it in two different colors to see how the flower will change. I was also thinking of making a dinosaur egg another week by sticking a hardboiled egg in vinegar (it turns all leathery).

A Sensory Box or Hidden Object Box
You can see the Sensory box in the corner of this picture we covered a laundry detergent box with contact paper and decorated it. We also gathered items from around the room and put them in a basket next to it so the kids could easily play with it. Click the following link for Directions on how to make your own Sensory Box
• I donated a Pheasant (it was real once) put it on display

• magnifying glass on each board

• Journal area- basket of paper and pencils/ crayons children can record their findings

* Sorting game bugs or buttons

• Small binoculars upstairs on loft attached with yarn or string.

• Plastic insects set up a terrarium or two for play exploration

I also created this…I guess ramp? Connecting the two mail chutes from when I made the Post Office Imaginary Play. I put a bucket attached to a pulley sytem so once the balls go th rough the ramp they fall into the bucket that can then be pulled up so you can start over.

Our Gravitiy, Inertia, Propolsion Testing
I  created this out of cardboard packing material

We have a basket at the bottom and a bucket connected to a pulley system that takes the bucket up to the loft