Engineer It!: Brick Building Challenge
Weekly Activities at Providence Children???s Museum
May 21 – 28
Engineer It!: Brick Building Challenge????????????????
Saturday, May 20 & Sunday, May 21?? ??????? 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Explore and experiment during a monthly series of engineering challenges.?? Kids make brick prints, experiment with brick laying using clay and blocks, and build with boxes to create large-scale constructions.??
Underwritten by Amgen Foundation.
Story Time??????????????????
Monday, May 22?? ??? ??10:00 AM & Noon
Children ages 3 and up listen to and participate in the telling of silly stories written by popular children???s book author Mo Willems.
Puzzle Works?? ????????????????????
Monday, May 22 – Friday, May 26?? ????? 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Take on creative challenges with a colorful assortment of shape and patterning puzzles in Discovery Studio, the Museum???s hands-on art and science exploration space.?? Try your hand at geometric, mosaic, wooden and magnetic puzzles that involve shape sequencing and sorting and have multiple solutions.
Play and Learn: Making Music
Tuesday, May 23?? ????? 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 experiment with loud, soft, high and low sounds as they use simple instruments.
Toddler Try-It: Puzzle Play??????
Friday, May 26?? ????? 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 paint with magnetic marbles.
Tell Your Story: Create a Flag
Saturday, May 27 – Monday, May 29?? ????? 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
In celebration of the Museum???s new Coming to Rhode Island exhibit ??? a time-traveling exploration of history and culture through stories ?????families tell their own stories as they explore vexillography, the art of designing flags, and create their own flags.?? Examine global and cultural flags to discover the symbolism and meaning behind colors, shapes and images, then design a flag that represents your story.
Underwritten by Hasbro Children???s Fund.
Visit www.ChildrenMuseum.org for a full calendar of events.