New! The Otter Den
A fun, new creative play and learning space! Children ages two to five and their parents can experience changing themes each week, from tumbling to finger painting to bubble play. Supervised, but parents must accompany children.
Weekdays, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. September through June.
$5 for one child daily, $3 for each additional child (plus Museum admission as applicable).
Members, add it to your membership! $25 per season on a Family membership, $30 per season on a Family Plus (Silver Spurs and DSS members are free). Pro-rated for memberships with less than four months remaining - $10.
For details, call 541-382-4754, ext. 320 or 241 .
Typical Weekly Themes:
Playground - This week The Otter Den becomes a playground with activities such as balancing, bean bag toss, and hopscotch. How do these activities compare to the games from the 1880s up at the Homestead?
Painting – with paper, brush, and paint, create you own artistic impressions and then find artwork throughout the Museum to compare colors, light, and dark.
Noodles - Giant foam noodles can give your imagination a boost. String some noodles together, make a big chair, or how about some giant spaghetti? Get creative and get noodly.
Clay – Sculpting clay is a wonderful way to express yourself, make a cat, an eagle, or a badger. Then again sometimes it’s just fun to get your fingers into it!
Cardboard Boxes – Make a cardboard structure: a train and be the engineer or create Mrs. Blair’s Homestead and clean some laundry. Compare your building or vehicle to what we have at the Museum.
Balls – Bouncing balls are everywhere. Can you
catch one? Can you roll one? We have all sorts of
sizes and even some funny shapes, too!
Bubbles – It’s time for some bubble fun at The
Otter Den. Big bubbles, little bubbles and bubble
machines. Good, clean, sticky, wet fun.
Blocks – Be a builder and create your own animal exhibit
or a town of your own. We’ve got soft brick blocks,
colorful blocks, tree blocks, and some regular blocky
blocks!
Tunnels and Tumbling – Here’s great way to
exercise. We’ve got the mats and tunnels, you come
with your energy ready to go. Then see if you can be a
tunneling badger or a burrowing owl.
Weekly themes:
Sept. 6-10 bouncing balls
Sept. 13-17 painting
Sept. 20-24 blocks
Sept. 27-Oct. 1 bubbles
Oct. 4-8 noodles
Oct. 11-15 clay
Oct. 18-22 tunnels
Oct. 25-29 tumbling
Nov. 1-5 trains
Nov. 8-12 sandboxes
Nov. 15-19 balls
Nov. 22-26 painting
Nov. 29-Dec. 3 blocks
