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Public Programs

Saturday Discoveries | Big Electric Show | Live Animal Programs | Wiggle Worm Tales | Match Game | School Break Discoveries

 

Science comes to life during...

 

 

Tuesdays at 10 a.m. 

Designed for ages 4 and under, children experience hands-on activities that promote science literacy through experiments, crafts and live animals. 

Wiggle Worms is FREE with Museum admission.

Children listen to a story

 

Reading and feeling a book on textures

 

 

Fairy Tale Day

 


Date:

9/14/2010

Theme:

Harvest

Book:

Patty's pumpkin patch / Teri Sloat

Activity:

Pumpkin Windsock

Animal:

Rabbit

 

 

Date:

9/21/2010

Theme:

Good Manners

Book:

D.W.'s guide to perfect manners / Marc Brown

Activity:

"Cover your sneeze please"

Animal:

Box Turtle

 

 

Date:

9/28/2010

Theme:

Birds

Book:

Will I have a friend? / Miriam Cohen; pictures by Lillian Hoban

Activity:

Nest

Animal:

Finch

 

 

Date:

10/5/2010

Theme:

Bugs

Book:

The grouchy ladybug / Eric Carle

Activity:

Paper plate ladybug

Animal:

Prickly Sticks

 

 

Date:

10/12/2010

Theme:

Dinosaurs (October is International Dinosaur Month)

Book:

Dinosaurs, dinosaurs / by Byron Barton

Activity:

T-Rex TP Roll Craft

Animal:

Uromastyx

 

 

Date:

10/19/2010

Theme:

Jungle

Book:

Over in the jungle : a rainforest rhyme / by Marianne Berkes ; illustrated by Jeanette Canyon

Activity:

Zebra Paper Bag Puppet

Animal:

Plated Lizard

 

 

Date:

10/26/2010

Theme:

Halloween – Have kids come dressed up in their costumes!

Book:

Moonlight : the Halloween cat / by Cynthia Rylant ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet

Activity:

Spider Web Craft

Animal:

Owl

 

 

Date:

11/2/2010

Theme:

Senses - Hearing !

Book:

Sound: loud, soft, high and low / written by Natalie M. Rosinsky ; illustrated by Matthew John

Activity:

Walkie-Talkies

Animal:

Snake

 

 

Date:

11/9/2010

Theme:

Senses - Sight

Book:

Baby Bear, Baby Bear, what do you see? / by Bill Martin, Jr. ; pictures by Eric Carle

Activity:

Silly Glasses

Animal:

Tarantula

 

 

Date:

11/16/2010

Theme:

Senses - Touch

Book:

My fingers are for touching / by Jane Belk-Moncure ; illustrated by Viki Woodworth

Activity:

Play with Play-Dought

Animal:

Rabbit and bearded dragon

 

 

Date:

11/23/2010

Theme:

Senses - Taste

Book:

Taste / by Patricia J. Murphy

Activity:

Fruit Loop Necklace

Animal:

Feed bugs to frog

 

 

Date:

11/30/2010

Theme:

Senses - Smell

Book:

A whiff and a sniff / by Jane Belk Moncure

Activity:

Skunk

Animal:

Ferret

 

 

Date:

12/7/2010

Theme:

Alphabet - Letters A-M

Book:

Talk to me about the alphabet / Chris Raschka

Activity:

Hippopotamus Paper Bag Puppet

Animal:

H: Hedgehog

 

 

Date:

12/14/2010

Theme:

Alphabet - Letters N-Z

Book:

Alphabet adventure / by Audrey Wood ; illustrated by Bruce Wood

Activity:

Turkey Handprint

Animal:

Q: Quail

 

 

Date:

12/21/2010

Theme:

Holidays - Christmas, Hannukah and Kwanza

Book:

Go to sleep, Groundhog / by Judy Cox ; illustrated by Paul Meisel

Activity:

Dress up the snowman

Animal:

Chinchilla

 

 

Date:

12/28/2010

Theme:

New Year

Book:

Just in time for New Year's! / Karen Gray Ruelle

Activity:

Chinese Lantern

Animal:

Rabbit (Chinese New Year: Feb. 3 - Year of the Rabbit 2011)