Doctors at Play Weekly Activities at Providence Children’s Museum
March 13 – 20
Seussational!
Sunday, March 13 | 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday with a wonderfully wacky weekend-long celebration full of crazy characters and Seussational activities. Play games inspired by silly Seuss stories, make Seussical hats, and more.
??Museum Closed – Monday, March 14
??Play and Learn: Bounty of Beads
Tuesday, March 15 | 10:00 AM – Noon
Play and Learn is the Museum’s open-ended story-based program especially for 2- to 4-year-olds and their parents, designed to help preschoolers build their skills in a variety of areas and to help parents continue the learning at home. This week, preschoolers dip into a bounty of big beads to practice patterning and fine motor skills.
Underwritten by National Grid.
??Rigamajig
Tuesday, March 15 – Friday, March 18 | Noon – 2:00 PM
Invent robots, structures, carts and other creative contraptions with a large-scale building kit featuring wooden planks, wheels, pulleys, rope, and nuts and bolts.
Underwritten by Amgen Foundation.
??Toddler Try-It: Wonderful Wheels
Friday, March 18 | 10:00 AM – Noon
Young children, ages 18 months to 3 years, use real tools and explore the creative process as they delve into different hands-on art and science activities each Friday morning.?? This week, toddlers explore steering and rolling and how wheels help the world go ’round.
??MetLife Family Friday
ALSO Friday, March 18 | 5:00 – 8:00 PM
The Museum is open free of charge from 5:00 – 8:00 PM for “MetLife Family Friday – Free at Five!,” sponsored by MetLife Foundation.
??Doctors at Play
Saturday, March 19 | 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Kids are the doctors today! Assemble a doctor’s bag with real hospital supplies like bandages and stethoscopes, give a teddy bear a check-up, and have a cast made on your finger, presented by Hasbro Children’s Hospital Child Life Services. Recommended for ages 3 and up.
Pulleys and Gears
Sunday, March 20 | 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Kids explore simple machines in Discovery Studio, the Museum’s open-ended art and science exploration space! Tighten screws, lift weights with rope and pulleys, and create a network of gears and make them work together.
Visit www.ChildrenMuseum.org for a full calendar of events. ?????? ??