Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Year: 2009
Collection: Adventure Camp Treehouse
Collection: Adventure Camp Treehouse
The Adventure Camp Treehouse is a tiny exhibit with multiple activities that may interest children within a range of ages. It is located between River Adventures and Rainforest Rhythms, and on top of Wonderland. Despite being a space independent within itself, it is also interactive with these afore mentioned exhibits: a periscope allows kids to view outside the treehouse, and a speaker tube lets them communicate with other visitors on the lower floor.
At its most basic, this exhibit and its accompanying small table and chairs is a playhouse, which is one of the most common and universal instruments that younger children use to learn. By imitating the adults that they know, small kids can role-play autonomy, responsibility, and social customs. Although such "playhouses" may consist only of a cardboard box, it is certainly more interesting when it has such fun activities as PTM's Treehouse!
There are exotic insects displayed, an adventuring costume to don, a xylophone to play, a flag to raise, morse code to send, and interesting plants to smell. All of these things have affiliated text, which not only aids grown-ups to facilitate, but may also interest older children. The morse code tool is particularly a perfect addition to engage surly elder siblings.
The multi-sensory approach of the exhibit also draws in different types of learners. The different smelling canisters (positioned at a four-year-old's level) lets kids sniff vanilla, coffee, bamboo, and chocolate while telling them the different places that these things are from. This is a novel way to inspire concepts of far-away locales in a young mind. It is a truly immersive space that allows visitors to understand the relationship between human life and wildlife at a basic level, which could be especially helpful for inner-city children who witness a completely different landscape.
Even though children who prefer the tea parties and the frilly dress-up clothes of Wonderland may consider passing the Treehouse by, there is truly something for everyone within it. Considering the popularity of characters such as Dora the Explorer, it seems likely that this space is almost constantly occupied.
At its most basic, this exhibit and its accompanying small table and chairs is a playhouse, which is one of the most common and universal instruments that younger children use to learn. By imitating the adults that they know, small kids can role-play autonomy, responsibility, and social customs. Although such "playhouses" may consist only of a cardboard box, it is certainly more interesting when it has such fun activities as PTM's Treehouse!
There are exotic insects displayed, an adventuring costume to don, a xylophone to play, a flag to raise, morse code to send, and interesting plants to smell. All of these things have affiliated text, which not only aids grown-ups to facilitate, but may also interest older children. The morse code tool is particularly a perfect addition to engage surly elder siblings.
The multi-sensory approach of the exhibit also draws in different types of learners. The different smelling canisters (positioned at a four-year-old's level) lets kids sniff vanilla, coffee, bamboo, and chocolate while telling them the different places that these things are from. This is a novel way to inspire concepts of far-away locales in a young mind. It is a truly immersive space that allows visitors to understand the relationship between human life and wildlife at a basic level, which could be especially helpful for inner-city children who witness a completely different landscape.
Even though children who prefer the tea parties and the frilly dress-up clothes of Wonderland may consider passing the Treehouse by, there is truly something for everyone within it. Considering the popularity of characters such as Dora the Explorer, it seems likely that this space is almost constantly occupied.
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