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Play Under Pressure Media Release
Children Often Too Busy to Play, Survey of Parents Finds Hectic Family Schedules Crowd Out Play Time; Less Play Reduces Opportunities for Children to Develop Essential Skills St. Paul, Minn. – Busy family schedules, screen time and safety worries are...
Play + Empathy
Play Cultivates Empathy We know that play is important in the development of essential lifelong skills, such as fine motor skills and social cues. Empathy, the foundation for human relationships, is also one of these. At its most basic definition, empathy is awareness...
More Proof that Play Unlocks Innovation
Minnesota Children’s Museum hosted our second Pints & Play event on Tuesday evening at Bauhaus Brew Labs in northeast Minneapolis – and ran a fun experiment. Here’s how: We split people into two groups and gave each a set of Rigamajig building materials (wooden...
Lifelong Kindergarten
Cultures, the social domain of practices, discourses, and material expressions that unite a community, are created when people play together, and creativity and creative expression is an essential part of this process. Sadly, emphasis on creativity decreases as...
Brains Need to Play
The Importance of Play "It's not just superfluous," says Researcher Jaak Panksepp. "It's a very valuable thing for childhood development. And we as a culture have to learn to use it properly and have to make sure our kids get plenty of it." Play and Social Skills...
Minnesota Children’s Museum Awarded Service Enterprise Status by Points of Light
At Minnesota Children’s Museum we value the work of our volunteers. Young or old, we want you to play with us! You can help promote playful learning and have a positive impact on the children of Minnesota and their families. Points of Light Accolades We...
