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…
Last Thursday, we went to Ernie Miller for a class about the owls native to Kansas. The naturalists brought out four different kinds of native owls; a Barn Owl, a Screech Owl, a Barred Owl, and a Great Horned Owl.…
Last week we braved the bitter cold to visit Union Station and the current exhibit – Xtreme Bugs. These oversized animatronic bugs are interesting to see, and the exhibit had some nice hands on areas that the kids enjoyed –…
For our January 2015 meeting, we had a mini-build based on Lego’s birthday, a 50 brick challenge, and a theme of Castles and Creatures. As always, the kids ran with those ideas and made some great builds! Mini Builds A…
