Free Playtime
All ages

No additional cost
Bring your children to the museum for a change of scene and the freedom to explore all of our exhibits and activities. Each week features special projects and activities that are adaptable to a wide range of ages and abilities. These activities correspond to monthly themes such as weather, animals, healthy and happy, messy art, and much more. Pick up a calendar at the museum or join our email update list for more details.

       

Structured Group Activities
See additional fees listed with each program below

For a bit more focus to your visit, groups may choose to add approximately 30 minutes of structured activities. The remaining time (up to 1 1/2 hours) is open for exploration of the museum.  Group visits with structured activities must be scheduled at least two weeks in advance.  Activity options include:

 

Toddler Music 1.5-5 years Language, Music, Motor Skills, Social Skills
Monoprints Preschool – 3rd grade Visual Art, Negative Space	Hand-Made Paper Preschool – 3rd grade Visual Art, Science, Recycling
Happy Feet Preschool Motor Skills, Social Skills, Visual Art	Life In A Log Preschool – 3rd grade Science
	Farm to Market Preschool – 3rd grade Nutrition, Science, Math

 

Happy Feet
Preschool

Additional $15 per group; Members $9 per group
Feet are Fun! Our feel trip proves it! Students will explore how their feet work, what feet do, and how feet are like hands. We utilize basic math skills by measuring our feet and counting our toes, build balance and rhythm skills by doing a dance using our feet, and challenge ourselves by making art using only our feet. Critical thinking skills take a step forward during museum time. Take your shoes off for this engaging field trip.
     

Life in a Log
Preschool – 3rd grade

Additional $15 per group; Members $9 per group
This science based program teaches children that every living thing needs a home, fallen logs are part of the food chair, and animals need to adapt to their environment. In this field trip, we explore the log as a habitat for plants and animals, and as a site of decomposition and renewal.  We will use our imagination to create our own log and log creatures from craft supplies. Dramatic play helps us understand that animals live in and around the log just like we live in our homes. We will finish up with a review and "quiz" to cement the lesson. 
     

 

Farm to Market
Preschool – 3rd grade

Additional $15 per group; Members $9 per group
Learn about nutrition, the parts of the plant, and the grocery store through this multiple intelligences field trip. Easily adaptable, this field trip uses interpersonal, math, naturalistic, body-kinesthetic, and other intelligences to discover facts about food your students never knew before. Participate in a meal race, parts of the plant game, and more. Schedule this field trip around your lunch and decide what parts of your lunch come from plants. Students also have time to explore the garden and the grocery store, practicing making smart food choices of their own.
     

Monoprints
Preschool - 3rd grade
Additional $15 per group; Members $9 per group
Kids will learn about negative space (the space around and between parts of an image) and how a print creates a reversed image. Experience art in a new way and take home one-of-a-kind prints created by your one-of-a-kind kids!

       

 

    

Hand-Made Paper
Preschool-3rd grade

Additional $15 per group; Members $9 per group
Experience the gratifying efforts of recycling coupled with the creative rewards of art. Our art room hosts many projects, few as time honored as Hand Made Paper. We’ll blend pulp, press our paper, and then decorate to create individual art while discussing the environmental impacts of our actions. Students make choices and see the impact of their work while learning the basic process of a fundamental Wisconsin Industry. A staff led activity coupled with our normal art room creativity and exploration policies makes for a highly satisfying field trip.
       

 

To schedule your group, call the museum at 715-344-2003 or send an email to mailto:cwcm@sbcglobal.net?subject=Group Visit.  Include your name, school or organization, preferred date and time of field trip, estimated number of children with ages/grades, and requested activity.