Spring is quickly approaching (can you believe the warm weather this week?!), and here at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, spring means Spring Break! This Spring Break we're especially excited about the LEGO® Travel Adventure exhibit that just opened. The exhibit invites you to use one of the greatest building materials of all time—LEGO® bricks—as a vehicle for imagination. Where do you need to go? What does your vehicle need to do? You're not just along for the ride! You imagine the journey and the destination, and build your dream machine!
In This Week's WOW, Josh, Claire, and a special guest Nicole take part in a cool LEGO® challenge similar to what families will get to do at our LEGO® Late Night event on March 31. You pick the destination, determine what terrain you'll have to cross to get there, then build a vechicle to take you.
If you want to participate in a challenge like the one here, be sure to sign your family up for Spring Break LEGO® Late Night on March 31. If you're visiting from out of town this Spring Break, check out our hotel packages and get the most out of your family trip to Indianapolis.
LEGO® Travel Adventure is at the museum through July 22, 2012. Be sure to see it before it leaves!
It’s National "March into Literacy" month! At The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, we're celebrating with a series of activities and events to get YOU excited about reading!
We're kicking it all off at our Scholastic Book Fair opening today! We have books for the whole family. The best part? Your purchase will earn points that allow us to purchase books for kids in our community. Last year we were able to provide more than 300 brand new books for kids to keep! This year, even your online purchases in the month of March will earn points, too!
In celebration of Literacy Month we've been compiling a list of our favorite books from when we were kids. Check out some of our favorite authors, titles, and book series:
Top 5 Authors
Dr. Seuss
Robert McCloskey
Shel Silverstein
Eric Carle
David A. Carter
Top Book Series
The Mad Scientists’ Club
Harry Potter
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Little House
Pinkerton
Top 10 Favorite Books
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
Stay tuned, all month we'll be posting blogs about books that were influential in the lives of staff members here at the museum.
We’ll see you at the book fair where you can purchase new favorites of your own! And don’t forget...
"The more you read, the more you know, the more successful, you will grow!" - Dr. Seuss.
One of the things that makes The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis the biggest and best in the world is its ability to extend learning beyond the walls of 3000 N. Meridian Street. In fact, every summer, museum staff and paleontologists escape the Dinosphere dome and travel all the way to the Badlands of South Dakota where they dig for real dinosaur bones! And the best part? You can do it too. That’s right, families, teachers and adults are all invited to register for single or multiple days of dino digging fun. And yes, we find stuff. Lots of stuff.
For example…
Last summer we found over 200 65 million year old specimen including Nano-tyranous teeth, femora from school bus sized Edmontosaurus annectens (aka Duckbill Dinosaur), ribs, mandible pieces and so much more!
Check out This Week’s WOW to see what a day at the dig site looks like and learn the answer to the question Just what happens to all those fossils once they’ve been discovered and can I use mine as a paper weight?
To learn more or to register for this summer’s dig, click here.
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By Ashley Zrosec, Family Programs Teacher
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