Resources
CMOM at Home
Bring the museum into your home with this series of fun, educational and engaging activities that kids and their families can do together each day of the week, while practicing social distancing. Tune in each weekend for a special edition of Storytime Saturdays, with a dynamic line-up of special guest readers.
Parenting in Place
Launched to help families meet challenges faced during the pandemic, Parenting in Place is an online resource of providing parents and caregivers of young children with expert advice and insights to encourage, support and inspire.
Superpowered Metropolis: Early Learning City™ Family Resources
Superpowered Metropolis: Early Learning City™ is an exhibition designed to support early learning moments and to build the brainpower of the city, one child at a time! For additional learning resources, information on executive function skills, tips from partners like Vroom.org, and science-based learning games and apps available for free to download, please visit our Superpowered Resources page.
Baby Brain Building Hub Family Resources
Please enjoy these family resources designed for children under four, to inspire you to LOOK, TALK, MOVE, and PLAY together with your children.
These activities help build language and listening skills, practice taking turns, and encourage following directions — all skills needed for success at the playground, at school, and in life!
Created by the Children’s Museum of Manhattan with funding provided by Robin Hood’s Fund for Early Learning. Copyright 2019.
Baby Brain Building Curriculum
A parent/caregiver and child curriculum for advancing executive function and literacy skills in children ages 0-3 years
All the Way to K and Beyond!
CMOM’s All the Way to K and Beyond! (ATWTK) website includes hands-on art-making, music, and storytelling activities that model simple and engaging strategies for fostering language skills at home and in the community. It offers resources to help engage parents, caregivers and professionals with language and literacy strategies to help prepare children aged birth – 5 years to thrive in pre-K and beyond.
ATWTK is a new citywide initiative of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, the New York City Department of Education and the New York City Administration for Children’s Services. Funding for the initiative is provided by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Meringoff Family Foundation.
ATWTK is grounded in language and literacy research from Johns Hopkins University Science of Learning Institute which demonstrates that families can engage in important literacy and language behaviors to support kindergarten readiness and a love of learning. This project is an integral part of the Museum’s work to connect home, school, and community learning through partnerships with City agencies and community-based organizations.
EatPlayGrow™ Curriculum
EatPlayGrow™ is an early childhood health curriculum developed by the Children’s Museum of Manhattan in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) We Can!® obesity prevention program. EatPlayGrow™ combines the latest science and research from the NIH with CMOM’s holistic arts and literacy-based pedagogy to engage families and adults who work with young children. Designed to meet Pre-K and health standards, it offers positive messages about health in fun and engaging ways.
Learn more about our EatSleepPlay™ health outreach.
