Science Story Time

We’ll read the book Are You an Ant? by Judy Allen to learn all about an ant’s life. Afterwards you’ll have a chance to see the museum’s live colony of leafcutter ants as we make our own insect art to take home.

Celebrate the end of fall as we play and create with leaves. To get inspired we’ll be reading about the adventures of Leaf Man in Lois Ehlert’s colorful book of leaf collages.

Relax surrounded by the aquariums in “Life in Local Waters” after we read the book Pattern Fish by Trudy Harris and create our own patterned paper fish to take home.

We’ll read the playful book Windblown by Edouard Manceau before exploring with shapes and air as we build paper contraptions to blow in the wind.

Build, test, and sink your own boat as we learn about balance and weight (along with the silly antics of some cute critters) in Pamela Allen’s Who Sank the Boat?

Examine and sort dozens of different types of seeds from the Montshire’s collection after reading the gorgeous book A Seed is Sleepy by Dianne Aston.

Explore the remarkable life cycle of dragonflies as we read the book Are You a Dragonfly? by Judy Allen. We’ll then make our own mechanical dragonflies to take home.

Build your own shadow puppets after getting inspired by all the animals found in Michael Bartalos’ Shadowville.

Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty features a kid that can never stop building and building! We’ll make our own towers with 100’s of cups and other oddities as we reach for the sky.