Sesame Street Presents: The Body

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ABOUT THE EXHIBIT

Get to know what’s under your skin at Sesame Street Presents: The Body. This amazing educational exhibition teaches children how their bodies work and how to stay healthy as they hop, jump, run and dance their way through this hands-on Sesame Street adventure!

Sesame Street Presents: The Body features four different education zones related to the human body.

Your Outsides

Children learn to identify different body parts, learn what they do, and explore the many ways they can put them to use. Exhibits include Your Wonderful Hands, featuring puzzles, sign language games, shadow puppets, and more; Your Legs and Feet, an interactive exhibit that shows what happens when you put your legs in motion; and Use Your Head, a play-along question and answer game show about the parts of the head.

Your Insides

This is an exploration of what goes on inside the body. Activities include Count’s Organ Organ, which musically teaches children about their internal organs’ locations and functions; Digestion with Oscar, a display that shows kids what happens to food when they eat it; and Oscar’s Sneeze Machine, where children pull a lever to irritate a big nose that actually sneezes on them!

How You Work

Whether you are exercising, playing, dancing or even sleeping, your body is always hard at work. In “How You Work,” children put their bodies to the test in Super Grover’s Obstacle Course, a physical movement station that encourages them to crawl, jump, balance and climb.

Staying Healthy

Learn how eating healthy foods, staying clean, and getting plenty of physical activity as well as sleep can help the body stay healthy. Ernie and Rubber Ducky get kids started in Rub-A-Dub Tub, a silly game that shows them just how much fun staying clean can be. Then it’s on to Mr. Hooper’s Store, where children scan groceries and learn specific messages about how different healthy meals are good for their bodies, and Baby Bear’s Mini Mart, a toddler-sized activity area where children can stock up on a variety of healthy foods.

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