The Children's Museum at La Habra

The Children's Museum at La Habra will create the Friendly Farm Exhibit for children ages 2-10, teachers, parents, and community members. The exhibit will emphasize the importance of good nutrition and exercise as a solution to the national childhood obesity problem. Targeting the community's low income, underserved, immigrant Hispanic population, the exhibit will feature an historical overview of Mexican-American immigrants supporting agriculture in California's La Habra Valley. As a leader in a five-year community health initiative, the museum will partner with health organizations to ensure the exhibit promotes the importance of healthy eating, farm-to-table food, and exercise while showcasing Mexican-American contributions to farming in the early 20th century. Presented in both English and Spanish, the exhibit will feature a pretend-play environment offering opportunities for the development of gross/fine motor skills, language/vocabulary acquisition, and cognitive reasoning abilities.