Types of Play

Part 1 Let’s talk about the different types of play that you can observe in children. Exploratory Play is a great place to start this discussion. Kids in exploratory play will use several of their senses to explore their world around them.  For example, using touch gives them an opportunity to feel objects and use gross motor and fine motor …

FRAME

We would love to introduce you to Alissa Rupp with FRAME Integrative Design Strategies based in Seattle! With over 20 years experience with children’s museums, we were fortunate to become acquainted with Alissa in 2019. She has family in the Magic Valley and had been following our journey early on. Our board held a 3 day workshop with her in …

Full STEAM Ahead

Summer Outreach is “Full STEAM Ahead” for the Children’s Museum of the Magic Valley! We love being able to imagine, create, and discover with children throughout the Magic Valley. After cancelling several of our Spring 2020 events and not being able to host events through summer 2020, we were ready to provide fun, interactive opportunities for children this summer! We …

Funding Through Grants

Having invested $48,000 so far in our STEAM programming, we are grateful to our community partners who have believed in our vision to provide fun, interactive hands-on learning for the children of the Magic Valley. Thank you! First Federal Foundation Idaho National Laboratory Idaho STEM Action Center Twin Falls Subaru (Share the Love event) Twin Falls Walmart US Bank Foundation …

Board Education & Involvement

CMMV organized our first Board of Directors in November 2018 as we became a 501(c)(3). One of our core values has been to strive to “do it right”. As an emerging museum, we believed one of the ways we could do that was to learn from industry experts.  Early on, we joined the Association of Children’s Museums (ACM). We have …

Idaho Gives 2021

Idaho Gives – a program of the Idaho Nonprofit Center – is designed to bring the state together, raising money and awareness for Idaho nonprofits. Due to the increased need of support to the nonprofit sector, because of COVID-19 the online giving period has been extended! Donations were collected from April 23-May 7. Joining together, 16,091 donors raised $3,873,823 for …

Outreach Truck

Have you seen our truck?!?! We recently purchased a used 16’ box truck which has been outfitted with shelving and our new Think, Make, Create Lab which offers a variety of make & take STEM activities. Our truck allows us to better store and transport our mobile exhibits to events throughout the region.  We are extremely grateful for our grant …

Site Announcement

The Twin Falls Urban Renewal Agency (URA) entered into exclusive negotiations with CMMV for the purchase of a .50 acre lot in down-town Twin Falls on the corner of 3rd Street South and Idaho Street South. Downtown Twin Falls is the heart of our community, and the Children’s Museum of Magic Valley is eager and committed to becoming a vital …

Founding 50 Donors

Through the tremendous support of our community, we completed our Founding 50 Campaign, a start-up funding campaign of $150,000.00. These Founding 50 donors believed in us and our mission when we had very little to show except for our passion and tenacity. They trusted us to be good stewards of their donations and believed that we could accomplish this dream. …