MCM Roadshow: UCP Fall Family Frolic
2024-09-21 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | McGaw Park, 5236 Lacy Rd, Fitchburg, Wisconsin
Find MCM Roadshow at Dane UCP’s Fall Family Frolic. Enjoy free activities for all abilities, including a bouncy house, ball pit, bubbles, balloon art, music, picnic dinners, and more!

Madison Children’s Museum Roadshow brings mobile exhibits, maker activities, and more to community events in Madison and the surrounding area.

Exploration Station: Nature Painting
2024-09-22 10:30 - 12:00 | Madison Children’s Museum, 100 N. Hamilton Street, Madison, WI, 53704, United States
Create your own unique nature painting! Experiment with leaves, flowers, sticks, and pinecones as materials to apply paint and see what organic patterns you can create.

This event is free with the price of general admission.

MCM Roadshow: Community Engagement Block Party - Black on State
2024-09-22 12:00 - 15:00 | 400 State Street, 400 State St., Madison, 53703
Find MCM Roadshow at Alkeme’s Black on State Block Party!

This event cultivates a new atmosphere for young, influential, and working-class community members while fostering economic development through creativity and preparing an environment where underserved communities feel welcome to explore, commune, and support local businesses in the downtown Madison area.

Madison Children’s Museum Roadshow brings mobile exhibits, maker activities, and more to community events in Madison and the surrounding area.

Let's Make! with Lexie
2024-09-22 13:00 - 15:00
Explore new materials and creative techniques through facilitated art activities and bring home hand-made treasures. Projects vary each week and may include sculpture, painting, comics, printmaking, and more!

This event is free with general museum admission.

Scratch Programming Class
2024-09-22 14:30 - 15:30 | Madison Children’s Museum, 100 N. Hamilton Street, Madison, WI, 53704, United States
Fall 2024 Session

Exercise your creativity and have fun learning computer programming!

Class participants will learn computer programming fundamentals while making their own interactive art, animated stories, or games using Scratch, a programming language specially designed for teaching. For kids aged 9–13 interested in problem-solving/figuring out how to do stuff—no prior programming experience necessary.

Parents may accompany their child to the class or stay in the building to visit exhibits with a younger sibling. Learn more about Scratch.

This class is taught by UW Service Learning students from the Computer Sciences department.

Fee: $80 for the 11-session class; MCM members receive 10% off. Fee includes museum admission for the participant child, plus a parent or guardian, and up to one younger non-participant sibling.

Supplies: Children must supply their own laptop, chromebook, or tablet to work on. (A phone is too small.)

MCM laptops and class scholarships are available for students who need them, please email kkarlen@madisonchildrensmuseum for information on scholarships and laptops.

Class dates: Sundays, September 22–December 8, 2:30-3:30 pm. No class on December 1 (closed for Thanksgiving weekend.)

Be sure to read our refund and cancellation policy.

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Support for Scratch classes is provided by Catalent Biologics and Epic Systems.

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