New and Special Exhibits
Super Kids Save the World
April 22, 2010 – January 17, 2011
It’s saving electricity with a single flip of a light switch. It’s the power to turn an old tablecloth into a super hero cape. It’s the ability to repair something instead of throwing it away after a crash, boom, bam. It's fighting pollution and saving the world one aluminum can at a time. It's ordinary kids making a difference. It’s Super Kids Save the World!
Super Kids Save the World is a hands-on traveling exhibit created by The Magic House in partnership with the Crawford Taylor Foundation and Enterprise Rent-A-Car Family that gives kids (and their parents) the power to go green! Designed with “green” materials and practices, this super exhibit gives kids real super hero training starting with the four R's: Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle!
Super Kids Save the World is based on the British children's book, George Saves the World by Lunchtime written by Jo Readman and illustrated by Ley Honor Roberts. Developed by the Eden Project, an educational charity dedicated to showing the importance of taking care of our world, this book features an ordinary family, who in the course of their day save the world simply by making responsible choices. George, Flora and Grandpa demonstrate that by taking simple steps, families can become eco-friendly superheroes in their own communities.
Super Kids Save the World will begin its world saving mission on April 22, 2010 in honor of Earth Day and will be at The Magic House through January 17, 2011.
This extract is from George Saves The World By Lunchtime, by Jo Readman and Ley Honor Roberts. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. Text copyright © Jo Readman, 2006. Illustrations copyright © Ley Honor Roberts, 2006. Photographs copyright © Eden Project, with thanks to Ley Honor Roberts, Bernie Hawes, Dan Ryan and Glen Leishman. Glass and newsprint photographs reproduced by kind permission of Rockware Glass and Aylesford Newsprint respectively. All rights reserved.
Children's Village Hospital
Now Open!
Visitors are sure to go “gah gah” over the latest addition to The Magic House’s Children’s Village, a brand new baby…nursery!
Visitors will fall in love with the Children’s Village Hospital the moment they peek through the nursery window and see the babies lined up in their bassinets. The nursery is stocked with everything a pretend parent needs to take care of their new bundle of joy including clothes, blankets, caps, booties, bottles, pacifiers and of course lots and lots of diapers! Future doctors and nurses also play a vital role at the Children’s Village Hospital. Dressed up in scrubs or a lab coat, “hospital staff” perform checkups and make sure the newborns are healthy and well taken care of.
The Children’s Village Hospital was born as a result of a collaboration between The Magic House and St. Louis Children’s Hospital and is scheduled to be delivered (on time!) June 20.