From conveyer belts and cranes to air chutes and grocery stores, young visitors, infants through age five, will work, create, play, and learn as they experience the wonders of the every day working world within this exhibition. Throughout it, tips and strategies are offered on parent-child interaction to encourage children's learning. All the thematic areas within KID CITY focus on specific areas of learning.

 

 

 

Grocery Store

Children learn basic math concepts. They can weigh, sort, match, compare, count and sell "fruit" and "vegetables" of various shapes, colors and sizes. An interactive nutrition model also teaches children the importance of making healthy food choices. A delivery vehicle provides the opportunity for loading and unloading groceries and produce.

Factory

Children can explore the physics of movement and cause and effect. They can climb though the four levels of the Factory Climbing Structure and begin working by fitting various shaped blocks through corresponding holes. A “Ball Wall” with multiple chutes, tracks, pinwheels and moving objects is a source of excitement and awe for young visitors.

Also included in the exhibition is the new Little Learner’s Lab. In addition to four Young Explorer Computers, kids can explore a variety of topics from up-close exploration of objects with our video microscope to hands-on fun with our discovery kits.

The exhibition also features a Funhouse Mirror that distorts the viewer's legs and feet, and the Magnetic Wall where children can spell their name or create words with magnetic letters and numbers that "stick" to the wall. Visitors can also make structures out of big foam colorful blocks