Tots on the Go: Preschool Programs

Our popular Wee Workers program can travel to your preschool or daycare.  Children will sing songs, hear stories, make crafts, and experience objects from the museum’s traveling touch collection while learning about Baltimore’s many different industries. All programs are designed to support the Maryland Model for School Readiness. Choose from one of the following:

Put a Lid On It

Ever eat peas from a can? How does food get canned, and why does it last so long in a can? In this program, children explore Baltimore’s food processing industry by seeing old cans and containers from the museum’s collection, singing the songs that cannery workers sang, and designing a can.

Extra! Extra! Read All About It

Before computers and printers, books and newspapers were made by men and women who set each letter one at a time on printing presses. Explore Baltimore’s printing traditions by stamping old-fashioned letters and shapes, seeing old newspapers, and making a newspaper page. Program includes stories and songs about printing.

Anchors Away

Seaworthy lads and lassies will sing sailor songs and discover the different roles that sailors played aboard ships in old Baltimore. Children will learn about the museum’s 100-year-old tug boat and will create wooden ship wheels.

Hats Off to You

Baltimore was once home to many factories that made all sorts of hats from different materials, including wool, straw, and felt. Learn how hats were made in Baltimore through songs, stories, and seeing old hats from the museum’s collection. Children will get to handle hats of different shapes and textures from the museum’s collection and will create a hat of their own.

Make It Work

Baltimore is still home to many industries where science and technology are very important. Children will develop their early engineering skills by learning about the different jobs that engineers do and by building their own mini-machines using special tools from the museum’s collection.

Cost: $6 per student

Ages: 2 years - 5 years

Length: 1 hour