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7 events found.
Week of Events
Sunday, August 11, 2024
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August 11, 2024 -Exploration Station: Flower Fairies
Exploration Station: Flower Fairies
Pluck organic blooms from our Rooftop Ramble garden and create your own flower fairy friend! This event is free with the price of general admission.
Monday, August 12, 2024
No events on this day.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
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August 13, 2024 -Plant Root Flip Books with UW Genetics
Plant Root Flip Books with UW Genetics
Join our guest instructor Angela Johnson from UW Genetics for a drop-in flip book workshop! Learn about the patterns of plant root growth and their importance for obstacle avoidance, soil penetration, and seedling establishment. Best of all, you'll get to apply what you learned in a make-and-take animated flip book of the growth process. This […]
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
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August 14, 2024 -Exploration Station: Flower-Dyed Fabric
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August 14, 2024 -Playdough Party with Junko
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August 14, 2024 -Cabin Life: Beeswax Candle Making
Exploration Station: Flower-Dyed Fabric
Explore the colorful potential of plants! Pick flowers from our Rooftop Ramble garden and dye fabric using the pigment in your chosen blooms. This event is free with the price of general admission.
Playdough Party with Junko
Join Junko in the Art Studio Classroom each Wednesday to create your own scented playdough that's a squishy, smush-able sensory delight. This event is free with general museum admission.
Cabin Life: Beeswax Candle Making
Illuminate the past and make your own beeswax candle like an early Wisconsin settler. Cabin Life invites you each week to try crafts and activities from around the time of our historic 1840s log cabin in the Wonderground. This event is free with general museum admission.
Thursday, August 15, 2024
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August 15, 2024 -Messy Art with Laurie: Puffy Paint Pictures
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August 15, 2024 -Kids in the Rotunda Season Announcement Party!
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August 15, 2024 -Fun with Fiber Arts: Fabric Painting
Messy Art with Laurie: Puffy Paint Pictures
Join Laurie and our Art Studio staff for a weekly drop-in art experience designed for MCM's youngest visitors and their caregivers. Through open-ended & process-based projects, empower your little artist to freely explore materials and art-making with their senses. And the best part? We take care of cleanup! Today, we'll create dimensional art pieces with […]
Kids in the Rotunda Season Announcement Party!
Join Overture's Kids in the Rotunda for a free, fun-filled evening at Madison Children's Museum and their first-ever Season Announcement Party! Participate in a special scavenger hunt and search for performers around the museum before the official season announcement at 5:15pm. Then put on your dancing shoes and jump around to the beats of DJ […]
Fun with Fiber Arts: Fabric Painting
Explore various practical and artful fiber arts projects like embroidery, weaving, mending, and sewing with our friend Lexie in the Art Studio! Today, we'll use fabric paint to create textile designs. This event is free during our extended Thursday evening hours! Image credit: Sarah Whiting
Friday, August 16, 2024
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August 16, 2024 -STEAM Time: Succulents
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August 16, 2024 -Clay Day: Roll and Cut Shapes
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August 16, 2024 -Kamishibai Storytelling with Junko
STEAM Time: Succulents
Learn how to care for plants and what they need to survive. Decorate a piece of pottery from our clay program and adopt a succulent to bring home. Join us each week for new STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) activities. These hands-on programs foster creativity, ignite curiosity, encourage divergent thinking, build problem-solving skills, […]
Clay Day: Roll and Cut Shapes
Our art studio staff will lead visitors in a weekly assortment of creative clay sculpture activities.
We will create all kinds of collaborative projects- plant pots, jewelry, ornaments, tiles and more.
All ages are welcome to join us and experiment with clay.
Kamishibai Storytelling with Junko
Join Junko each Friday for interactive storytelling with Japanese kamishibai cards! This event is free with general museum admission.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
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August 17, 2024 -Exploration Station: Clothespin Butterflies
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August 17, 2024 -Saturday Art Adventures: Whimsical Windchimes
Exploration Station: Clothespin Butterflies
Learn about the metamorphosis of butterflies from egg to adult, and make a colorful clothespin butterfly that really flaps its wings! This event is free with the price of general admission.
Saturday Art Adventures: Whimsical Windchimes
Dive into an exciting drop-in art experience each week with Laurie and our Art Studio team. Embark on projects with a wide variety of art media and processes for all ages and abilities. Materials are included—and the best part? We take care of cleanup! Today we'll make windchimes out of clay shapes generously created by other visitors. […]
