This week we explored Kansas history using another history trunk available from the Kansas State Historical Society called “Uses of the Buffalo.” This trunk focused on how native people in Kansas used the buffalo for food, clothing, shelter and tools.…
For our October Lego Club meeting, we began with mini builds focused on October themes such as Halloween, pumpkins, apples, pizza, pasta, cookies, popcorn, pretzels, dinosaurs, great books, rainforests, and Mad Hatter Day. From there, we moved on to a…
This week we attended the live performance of “We Shall Not Be Moved” at Coterie Theatre in Crown Center. This show is about the student sit-ins in 1960 at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. This moving and…
This week we visited Ernie Miller Nature Center for their Build a Tipi program. This is a very popular program at the nature center, and we were excited to get hands on with the tipi supplies. The program started with…
On Wednesday we visited the newest exhibition at Union Station, Mummies of the World. This exhibit showcases mummies of all kinds from throughout the world. When you say “mummy” most people think of Egypt; however, we saw mummies from the…
For our September meeting, we talked about how buildings look from the street versus from the sky, then focused on creating a cityscape that the hex bugs could run through. Here are some of the creations the kids built in…
