Facilitator-led session for babies aged 0-2 and their carers to explore themes through the museum's collections.
STEAM Babies is back at the Museum of Making this November, with sessions running every Thursday morning throughout the month. It's a facilitator-led hour for babies aged 0-2 and their carers, so if you've got a little one in that bracket, it's a good way to get them out of the house and into the museum for a bit.
The session works by taking a range of themes and looking at them through the museum's collections. The babies get to handle materials in different ways and get creative with how they play, rather than just watching from the side. It's all about letting them explore and touch things, with a facilitator there to guide the session.
It sits within Derby Museums' wider learning programme, which uses STEAM — Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths — as an interdisciplinary approach. The idea is to encourage creative, enquiry-based and critical thinking from the start, and that's the same thread running through the whole programme.
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There are four dates to choose from: 5, 12, 19 and 26 November, each running from 10:15 to 11:15am. Booking is essential, and there are a few practical things to keep in mind before you head in: everyone has to take off their shoes and bring socks, and the ratios are kept tight, with at least one adult for every two children and no more than two adults to one child. Every child and adult attending needs their own ticket, and it's £3 per child.
