The Emery County Business Chamber hosted a ribbon cutting on July 22 for the opening of the children’s corner at the Museum of the San Rafael. This is a place where visiting children can come and play in the sand, learn about dinosaurs and prehistory.
It is open to anyone who wants to come but children have to be accompanied by an adult. The children’s corner is located in the north east part of the museum.
In the children’s corner there is a large sandbox with some dinosaur toys and other toys. In addition to the sandbox there are several discovery drawers with replicas of dinosaur teeth from a mammoth to a T-Rex, shark teeth, dinosaur tracks, sample fabrics, arrow heads, colorful rocks and a duck’s foot. They also have a variety of animal furs for the children to touch and handle. A raccoon fur, fox tail fur, a badger fur, a squirrel fur, a skunk fur and a white tailed deer fur. The children enjoy feeling the texture of those furs.
In the children’s corner they can color pictures, play in the sand or watch educational videos. On one wall of the children’s corner is a Dinosaur landscape mural installed by Talma Peacock and Dawnette Tuttle.
Tiffany Baker said, we realized we needed a place to entertain and have a learning center for young children. Maegan Wilberg and I started planning for this children’s corner February of 2014. We wanted a place for children to come learn and explore. We wanted them to find an interest in the things we have in Emery County. They can come to dig in the sand to learn about the dinosaurs, Mammoths and Native Americans. We wrote for and received a grant of money for the construction of this children’s corner.
Discovery Corner opens at the museum
"The Emery County Business chamber hosts the ribbon cutting at the museum. Maegan Wilberg and Tiffany Baker cut the ribbon."