Welcome to the Children Museum's staff fundraising page for Igniting Potential!
We are participating in this 24-hour giving challenge to raise critical funds to expand much needed scholarships for the kids in our community!
Today, we celebrate the generosity of an incredible community who will come together and participate in this giving day.
Thank you for supporting the Children's Museum at La Habra
Help Put Learning on the Right Track!
For a child, a train table is more than tracks and trains. As they connect pieces, build new routes, and move trains through their creations, play becomes a chance to explore, create, and learn. With your support, we hope to upgrade our Train Gallery with a brand-new train table, creating a hands-on experience for the children we serve. Along the way, they can strengthen spatial reasoning, problem-solving, fine motor skills, creativity, and critical thinking.
We also hope to introduce new train-focused STEM learning materials that expand discovery beyond the tracks. Through hands-on play, children explore concepts like motion, cause and effect, and sequencing while discovering how things work.
The Train Gallery can become a place for learning together. As children build alongside each other, they have the opportunity to share, communicate, and solve problems together. With your help, every track can lead to a new discovery.
Play Matters!
Before a child ever steps into a classroom, they're already learning. Through play in every gallery, we create opportunities to 
support a child's cognitive, social, emotional, and sensory development. It's the perfect time to encourage curiosity, spark creativity, and inspire a lifelong love of learning.
Through interactive exhibits and activities facilitated by our trained professional staff, children learn foundational math, reading and science skills while fostering curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork. They discover how academic concepts have real-life application by learning in our unique, hands-on environment.
There's something for every curious mind to discover. Kids love exploring favorites like Nature Walk, the Train Station Caboose, STEAM Lab, Kids on Stage, Centennial Farm, Science Station, and the magical Carousel Room. Families can create together in the Family Art Center, climb aboard a real 1942 caboose, take a ride on our historic Dentzel Carousel, or spend time exploring the dinosaur gardens and outdoor play spaces.
Play For All Children!
Each year, we welcome more than 90,000 visitors, including many children and families from under-resourced communities and Title I schools. We know that access to high-quality early learning experiences can have a lasting impact, helping children build the skills and confidence they need to succeed in school and beyond.
Unfortunately, barriers such as transportation, financial hardship, and disability can make it difficult for many families to access these important opportunities. That's why we're committed to providing hands-on learning opportunities through our Scholarship Tours and Museums for All programs.