We celebrated December with Legos! We started our meeting with mini builds focused on toys, games, favorite books and movies, and snow! After we settled in, we focused on creating a winter-themed village and free building time. Here are some…
We kicked off the Christmas season by watching a performance of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol by KC Rep. We were excited to see world-class acting in a local setting. This year’s production brought in more special effects, changed to more…
For our latest field trip, we explored outer space via the newest exhibit, Beyond Planet Earth, currently on display at Museum at Prairie Fire. This exhibit has all kinds of wonderful space items, as well as dioramas of potential space…
This week we explored the newest exhibit at Nelson-Atkins Museum, Through the Eyes of Picasso, then made our own masks in the Picasso Faces and Masks workshop in the educator center. Our morning at the museum began with a tour…
We kicked off November with a fun time building together! We started with mini builds about Thanksgiving, Pilgrims, leaves, and other late fall themes. Then we moved to our challenge build – Show Me the Inside. The kids were told…
The tweens and teens in our group began the fall with a multiple day New Dimensions stop-motion animation workshop at Nelson-Atkins. They learned how to use stop-motion animation software, how to edit their shots, add music and dialogue, and create…
