This month’s Lego Club focused on creating a fairy tale world. We also spent a little time on mini builds with May themes, such as flowers, bikes, turtles, Mother’s Day and space. Here are some of the things the kids…
May 2017 Lego Club Creations
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Velveteen Rabbit at TYA
On April 26th we attended the live performance of “The Velveteen Rabbit” at Theatre for Young America in Union Station. This adaptation takes the beloved classic into the library for a feature on rabbits, and includes a magician who helps…
Teacher from the Black Lagoon at Folly Theater
On Monday we went to the Folly Theater for a showing of “Teacher from the Black Lagoon and Other Stories” performed by Theatreworks USA. This musical story time contained seven different books – “Teacher from the Black Lagoon” by Thaler;…
National Geographic Live – Beauty and the Bizarre
Last week we attended a lecture at Kauffman Center presented by National Geographic Live. The topic was “Beauty and the Bizarre” and it was all about the hidden, strange, but also beautiful parts of nature. The photographer, Anand Varma, showed…
April 2017 Lego Club Creations
Last week we had our April Lego Club meeting. We started with our mini builds based on April activities, then moved on to our challenge build – make a map using one of the oversized base plates, then build the…
March 2017 Game Club
Monday was our March 2017 Game Club meeting. As usual, we had a variety of games new and old for the kids to try. Here are the new games we played this week: Three Little Pigs – Help the three…
Spring Clean-up Day
Wednesday afternoon we had a spring clean-up of the streamway by 103rd and Metcalf. We had great weather, and were able to make some real progress in cleaning up the area. In the hour and a half that we worked,…
Summer Camp 2017 Ideas
The Summer Camp 2017 page is now online! There are all kinds of great options throughout the metro. The summer camp page will be updated as other venues make their camp options available. Summer Camp Ideas 2017
March 2017 Lego Club Creations
For our March 2017 Lego club meeting, we explored space! We also had a mini build based on March holidays such as St. Patrick’s Day, Dr. Seuss’ birthday, the start of spring, archaeology month and so on. After our mini…
Odd Squad Live at JCCC
Things were definitely odd when we attended the performance of Odd Squad Live at Johnson County Community College! The kids had a great time watching the live version of the PBS show. The live performance featured two agents who were…