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We also use puzzles in one of our areas when it is not staffed. Sometimes I think the visitors enjoy that more than our staffed activities...haha!
Jason
Jason Archer
Gallery Program Manager
Connecticut Science Center
250 Columbus Boulevard
Hartford, CT 06103
direct: (860) 520-2122
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Subject: Re: unstaffed and safe
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Logic and other puzzles are great, even the classic tangrams. We have a set
of these and visitors never seem to get tired of them, even when they have
done them before.
Dave Smith
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Daniels, Alissa <
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> we have a counter where we do science activities, but when we're
> short-staffed we try to have simple activities on the counter that visitors
> can figure out themselves. I'm looking for new ideas. They need to be
> a)simple and self-explanatory b) free of scissors, markers, crayons or
> other things with which our visitors could damage the building or themselves
> c)cheap and easily restockable (since visitors will take anything that's
> not nailed down)
>
> successful stuff in the past:
> building towers with cups
> making shapes with pencils
> using cardboard tubes to listen to various sounds
>
>
> thanks very much for all your fabulous ideas! (see? I know they'll be
> fabulous)
> AD
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Alissa Daniels, Science Program Manager/Senior Educator
> Boston Children's Museum
> 617 426 6500 .342
> "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
> discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." " --Isaac
> Asimov
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