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Museum Babies: Developing the Senses of Children through Art Activities with Parents Sarah Wright , Associate Curator, Family and Youth Programs - Gilcrease Museum Micha McCumber , OTR/L, Senior CPST, DIM facilitator Stella and Dot Star Stylist


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Museum Babies: Developing the Senses of Children through Art Activities with Parents

Sarah Wright, Associate Curator, Family and Youth Programs - Gilcrease Museum Micha McCumber, OTR/L, Senior CPST, DIM facilitator Stella and Dot Star Stylist Dawn Parton, Associate Professor of Child Development - Tulsa Community College

3rd International Infant and Toddler Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma 2013

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Museum Babies I & II

ages 0-3 years

Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Program Development

  • Pre – K classes (Kids Dig Books

and Mini Masters)

  • Changes in parenting styles
  • Goals of the museum
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Museum Babies I

Ages 0-1 year old Twice a month Designed for parents and children First ½ hour – casual tour for parents Second ½ hour – activity for infants (Micha McCumber, instructor and TCC Early Childhood Development students)

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Gallery Time -

20 minutes to ½ hour

  • guided
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Activity Time -

½ hour to 40 minutes

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Museum Babies II

Ages 1 and 2 year olds

Twice a month Designed for parents and children First ½ hour – casual tour for parents Second ½ hour – activity for toddlers (Micha McCumber - instructor, and TCC Early Childhood Development students)

Gallery Time -

20 minutes to ½ hour

  • guided
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Activity Time -

½ hour to 40 minutes

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Review and Evaluations – Museum Babies I and II

  • Logistics
  • Personnel – bringing in TCC
  • Misconceptions
  • Parental responses
  • Meeting demand
  • Goals for program
  • Goals for parents

Changes-based on evaluations

  • Times of day
  • Frequency
  • activities
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Senses Activities

Micha McCumber OTR/L, Senior CPST, DIM facilitator

  • focuses on promoting experiences families may not provide
  • encourages development using many of the infant senses
  • incorporates museum and art as the common theme
  • allows child to become aware of environment/self in space
  • promotes bonding and a child’s feeling of safety
  • encourages activities from a developmental basis to promote

interaction with family/child

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Micha McCumber OTR/L, Senior CPST, DIM facilitator

Development –

The 5 Senses

  • Hearing -

Parent’s voice Rhythmic music

  • Touch

Massage

  • Smell

Familiar smells

  • Taste

Foods

  • Sight

Faces Color Movement

  • Gross Motor Skills

Head control Sitting Crawling

  • Fine Motor Skills

Midline orientation Pointer finger isolation Pincer grasp

  • Social

Safety Cause/effect

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Micha McCumber OTR/L, Senior CPST, DIM facilitator

Activities:

  • Color Wonder
  • Massage
  • Pincer grasp
  • Reading Books
  • Bubbles
  • Playdoh
  • Hide ‘n Seek
  • Water
  • Musical Instruments
  • Shaking
  • Stacking (blocks for stacking/banging together
  • Nursery Rhymes
  • Blowing
  • Peek a Boo
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Tulsa Community College

  • The Child Development

program at TCC and our role in preparing infant and toddler teachers

  • Our infant/toddler

teaching degrees, NAEYC ECADA accreditation, and the TCC Service Learning emphasis

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  • Infant toddler courses at

TCC and the Museum Babies assignment experience for students

  • Examples of student

work and reflection about the experience

  • Adapting the experience

for your location and program

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Sarah Wright

Associate Curator, Family and Youth Programs Gilcrease Museum T: 918.596.2774 F: 918.596.2770 sarah-wright@utulsa.edu

Micha McCumber

OTR/L, Senior CPST, DIM facilitator Stella & Dot Star Stylist www.stelladot.com/micha michalobksu@yahoo.com Oologah, Oklahoma 918-852-7482

Dawn Parton

Associate Professor of Child Development Tulsa Community College, West Campus T: 918-595-8039 F: 918.596.2770 dawn.parton@tulsacc.edu