All images courtesy of American Museum of Natural History. On Monday we visited Prairie Fire Museum for the new Dinosaurs exhibit. We began our tour in the Discovery Room, which is a huge favorite with the kids. The kids enjoyed…
Today we attended a performance of “Charlotte’s Web” at Theatre for Young America at Union Station. This live performance was a wonderful retelling of the now classic story, with a dash of humor and a whole lot of audience participation…
Last week’s Game Club was full of interesting games, old, new and in between. At the request of the kids, we repeated some games from previous meetings. Also, some of the families brought games to share. All in all, it…
At Monday’s meeting we celebrated all things March with creative Lego building. For our mini build, the kids were encouraged to create lions and lambs, and creations reflecting St. Patrick’s Day as well as National Cereal Day. Our theme build…
Last Thursday we attended an adorably quirky retelling of “Rapunzel” at the Paul Mesner Puppets Studio. This retelling included a moped riding witch, a prince who could not correctly pronounce his words, and a Rapunzel who was determined to find…
This morning we attended the Symphony’s KinderKonzert performance, “Cloudy with a Chance of Music,” at Kauffman Center. It was a wonderful performance! The songs selected were an exciting and emotive introduction to classical music, so the kids were engaged throughout…
We had a great time celebrating Valentine’s Day today! The kids were kept busy decorating their bags or boxes they brought, creating cards and drawings at the craft table, playing Bingo, Valentine’s Pictionary, and bean bag toss, plus the traditional…
On Tuesday we attended a performance of “Starring Abe Lincoln” at Theatre for Young America. This performance was a warm, funny and interesting history of Abe Lincoln’s life, and was both entertaining and informative. We learned about how Lincoln enjoyed…
Last Thursday, we went to Ernie Miller for the Inspector Insector class. Naturalist Molly came into the room dressed as a detective, and immediately grabbed the kids attention. She introduced the kids to their “case” and gave us a list of…
For this month’s meeting, we celebrated the Heart of Lego! For the mini build, we used Valentine’s Day, Groundhog Day, Chinese New Year, Presidents’ Day, and National Inventors Day for inspiration. We then had a 2D/3D challenge build where the…
