FAMILY PROGRAMMING

FUN FOR ALL AGES ALL SUMMER LONG!

Family Programs each Saturday from 12-4!

Free with paid CKM Admission or Membership.

May 09 Animals Alive We'll present a Live Animal program With “Wild Track / Tom Moore”, Featuring many different kinds of species at 1:00 PM followed by a fun animal craft.

May 16 Science Wonders Join us for a day filled with exciting activities and science wonders. The changes seem like magic, but a scientist can make them happen. And you get to be the scientist! **Girl Scout Brownies can join us to earn a try-It; for “Science Wonders” You'll be given a certificate to take back to your troop leader stating you have completed all the requirements for this try-it.

May 23 Animals Alive We'll present a Live Animal program With “Wild Track / Tom Moore”, featuring many different kinds of species at 1:00 PM followed by a fun animal craft.

May 30 All About the Fifty States Each of our fifty states is very different. Some states are big and others are small. Some have mountains and some have flatlands. Come travel around the room visiting all fifty states while learning cool facts about each of them.

June 6 Animals Alive We'll present a Live Animal program With “Wild Track / Tom Moore”, Featuring many different kinds of species at 1:00 PM followed by a fun animal craft.

June 13 The World of Insects Welcome to the world of insects! It is a world of amazing creatures that perform incredible tasks. Together we'll learn about these fascinating creatures as we learn to draw them.

June 20 Bobbin' Robin In the spring, robins return from their winter migration to build nests and lay eggs. When the eggs hatch, the parents work extra hard hunting for worms to feed their chirping, hungry nestlings. Make your own robin to take home.

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June 20 Critchlow Alligator Show “Critchlow Alligator Sanctuary” A LIVE Reptile show starring Our Egyptian American cousins….the alligators. Critchlow sanctuary, located in Athens , MI , is the home to about 50 American alligators, tortoises and snakes. Join us for a live presentation and a close up look at these amazing animals. The first show starts at 1:00pm followed by a second show at 2:00pm.

June 27 Space Explorer Learning about stars and planets and other things up there in the sky can open up a whole new world. Astronomers and astronauts use telescopes, satellites, spaceships, and other scientific equipment to study space. You too, can take a step into space exploration. We'll discover why the moon looks like it changes shapes, and why we have shadows.

July 4 Museum Closed

July 11 Animals Alive We'll present a Live Animal program With “Wild Track / Tom Moore”, featuring many different kinds of species at 1:00 PM followed by a fun animal craft.

July 18 Venetion Festival Weekend No Family Program in the Museum, but come visit the CircEsteem!

COME ONE , COME ALL …A SPECIAL CHILDREN’S CIRCUS IS COMING TO TOWN! JULY 18, 2009 AT 2 PM ON LAKE BOULEVARD DOWNTOWN ST. JOSEPH Since 2001, the Chicago Youth Circus has been uniting kids from all over. The CircEsteem, as it is called, features children performing high-energy circus acts, like tightrope walking, gymwheel spinning, acrobatic tricks, juggling and clowning around, all professional quality. Former Cirque de Soleil artist and 8-time European gymwheel champion of Wolfgang Bientzle guides, the budding circus performers, is artistic director of the show. CircEsteem is a nonprofit youth organization that teaches kids selfesteem through the circus acts. The performance here will be followed by an on-site, in the moment workshop for kids in the audience who want to learn the circus acts like tightrope walking, juggling, balancing and more. Every child gets a supervised lesson at each station and kids can go back for more. This high-quality children and family show takes place at 2 pm,
in a special area cordoned off from Carnivale’Venetian on Lake Boulevard in front of the historic Whitcomb Hotel overlooking Silver Beach. Also
in this special area from 2 pm to 2 am are: Fire Dancers, Aerial Angels, Detroit Pistons Drumlin with a BlueMan group-type show, Stealin’Jazz-3
piece steel jazz drum band from Chicago, Salsa Dancing and samplings from area restaurants and wineries. Watch for the concerts on the roof
of the Whitcomb Hotel, as in yesteryear. The goal is to offer a unique local experience for residents & visitors inside this private setting within
Carnivale’ Venetian. Admission to the Chicago Children’s CircEsteem is $5 per person OR buy the $30 wrist band for all events from 2 pm to 2 am.
(includes two children’s tickets) The Chicago Children’s CircEsteem show is made possible by: Southwest
Michigan Tourist Council and Curious Kids’ Museum.

 July 25 Love Creek Nature Center We all know we can cuddle kittens and puppies, but what about the animals you can't cuddle? Join us for a live animal show at 1:00 PM: “Animals That Are Hard to Love.”

Aug. 1 Building Art Architects, engineers, and decorators design buildings and other spaces. You can have fun learning about how museums, airports, railroads terminals, and other structures are designed, built and decorated. Visit the stations around the room: Discovering the Strengths of Shapes, Designing Space for Someone With Special Needs and Create a Neighborhood. **Girl Scout Brownies can join us to earn a try-It; for “Building Art.” You'll be given a certificate to take back to your troop leader stating you have completed all the requirements for this try-it.

Aug. 8 Un-Mixed Mixing up a solution is easy, but have you ever thought of taking one apart? Join us to try this very un-mixed colorful concoction.

 Aug. 15 Just a Phase Amazing changes are happening all around you! Sometimes substances simply change from one form to another. We call this a phase change , or physical change , because the chemical make-up of the substance itself does not change. For example, a melting Popsicle changes form from a solid to a liquid puddle, but you could put the puddle in a freezer and presto—you have a Popsicle again! Join us as we make some amazing chemical change concoctions and put some of the phase changes to work for you.

Aug. 22 No-Flow H*2*O A liquid that won't flow through a flimsy handkerchief? What kind of strange substance is this? Join us as we discover the principle of the thing!

Aug. 29 Animals Alive We'll present a Live Animal program With “Wild Track / Tom Moore”, featuring many different kinds of species at 1:00 PM followed by a fun animal craft.

 

Amazing Did You Know? Space Facts Mondays

Mondays from 1:30 – 3:00

June 22 A solar day on Mercury from sunrise to sunrise last about six Earth

months.

June 29 Ice permanently covers about 10 per cent of the Earth's surface.

July 06 Every day about 3,000 tons of dusty material from space falls onto the

Earth.

July 13 It would take a car traveling 100 mph more than 29 million years to

reach our nearest star.

July 20 Every second the Sun uses up 400 million tons of hydrogen completely

and changes it into energy.

July 27 The Sun travels once around the center of the Galaxy in about 220

million years.

Aug. 03 Uranus was found in 1781 by the astronomer Sir William Herschel.

Aug. 10 The most massive know Galaxy, called M87, is in the Virgo Cluster of

galaxies at a distance of about 60 million light years away.

 

Tuesday Paint Without Brushes

1:30 – 3:00 PM

Go beyond the paint jars and brushes. Create a master piece with a wide variety of props, textures and supplies.

June 23 Bubble Blow Printing

June 30 Dancing Fingers Finger-painting

July 07 Drip-Drop Painting

July 14 Marble Painting

July 21 Face Painting

July 28 Leaf Painting

Aug. 04 Hand Prints

Aug. 11 Cotton Dauber Painting

 

Animals ALIVE! Wednesdays

lLive animal presentation followed by a craft to make and take home.

Animal Shows are at 1:00 PM ~ Crafts 2:00 – 3:00 PM

June 24 Love Creek Nature Center – Reptiles and Amphibians

July 01 Sarrett Nature Center – Owls

July 08 Sarrett Nature Center - – Michigan Animals

July 15 Sarrett Nature Center – Reptiles and Amphibians

July 22 Sarrett Nature Center – Owls

July 29 Sarrett Michigan Animals

Aug. 05 Sarrett Reptiles and Amphibians

Aug. 12 Love Creek – Animals Hard to Love

   

Brown Bag Thursdays

What can you make with a brown bag….almost anything! Crafts to make and take 1:00 – 3:00 PM

June 25 Fish Out of Water

July 02 Wise Old Owl

July 09 Basket of Flowers

July 16 Octopus

July 23 Breeze Catchers

July 30 Don't Litter Bag

Aug. 06 Turtle or Skink Please

Aug. 13 Autograph Hound

 

Dinosaurs Friday

Dinosaurs were never seen ….so what do we really know about them? 1:00 – 3:00 PM

June 26 Cold Blooded/Warm Blooded

July 03 Extinct – The Last Word

July 10 Birds are Living Dinosaurs

July 17 How do we figure out what a dinosaur looked liked?

July 24 Where have Dinosaur Fossils been found?

July 31 Are all Dinosaurs meat – eaters?

Aug. 07 How can we tell which bones are which?

Aug. 14 Was the Earth the same when Dinosaurs were here?

 

Wee Discover- Wednesdays at 10:30 throughout the School Year (except during Christmas & Spring Breaks) Wee Discover is designed for toddlers and preschoolers accompanied by an adult. After reading a simple book, children will do themed activities that include crafts, creative play, simple science and discovery activities. The workshop always includes lots of fun for young children and their accompanying adult, as well as make and take-home activities. Based on the concepts of “Mother Goose Science” for young children, Wee Discover helps children discover the world around them by linking reading a different story each week with hands-on learning play experiences about different themes. Children exercise body motion, hand-eye coordination and grasp the many ways things in the world around us really work by experiencing them. Parents enjoy sharing experiences with their children and meeting other parents. Wee Discover is taught by Karen Brininstool, who has taught at CKM for many years. Free with paid CKM Admission or Membership.