Museum

Art month continues with a focus on crayons! 🖍️ At 10:15 AM, we’re melting crayon shavings with our Great Ex members and turning them into sun catchers to decorate your windows! ☀️ Our crayons have some opinions about this, however. And after the museum opens at 10:30 AM, our guests and members will explore their… Continue reading Terrific Tots

Who says art has to have pictures? 🎨 We have sticky boards and lots of shapes and objects our Great Ex members can use to create a collage at 10:15 AM. What a great intro to abstract art! 🔺🟨🔵  Once the museum opens at 10:30 AM, it’s time for The Book with No Pictures, by… Continue reading Terrifc Tots

There is no better way to celebrate Fall than by going on a bear hunt! 🍁🐻 Great Ex members will prepare for our bear hunt at 10:15 am by creating their own pair of cardboard tube binoculars! They are 100% approved for this type of scouting mission. Once the museum opens at 10:30, members and… Continue reading Terrific Tots

Is it a little early to celebrate Halloween? Never! 🎃 At 10:15 AM our Great Ex members will get into the spirit by decorating their own Haunted Houses made of foam and fun stickers! 👻 Our story telling begins when the museum opens at 10:30 AM and our guests join us. We’re reading Eek! Halloween!, by… Continue reading Terrific Tots

Halloween can’t be complete without a decorated pumpkin! So, let’s get started decorating! 🎃 At 10:15 am, Great Ex members get in the decorating mood with Halloween games and sensory bins! Once the museum opens at 10:30 AM, we share the pumpkin vibes with our guests with a reading of It’s Pumpkin Day Mouse, by Laura Numeroff and Felicia… Continue reading Terrific Tots

Super scary spiders to decorate for the big day! 🕸️ Great Ex members coming at 10:15 AM will give their fine motor skills a workout by molding air-dry clay into their very own spider creations to take home! 🕷️ Then, at 10:30 AM when the museum opens, guests and members alike will remind all resident… Continue reading Terrific Tots

It’s monster time! 👹 Halloween is only two days away!!!!! Is everyone ready? 🎃 We are so excited! It’s time to make that last minute decoration everyone is looking for, Boo Canvas art! Great Ex members, we will start this craft just for you at 10:15 AM.  The museum opens at 10:30 AM, which is… Continue reading Terrific Tots

It’s a moment to slow down and remember those who serve. 🇺🇸 This year, our Great Ex members who arrive at 10:15 AM will create poppy flowers from cupcake liners. A nice little bouquet for the Tots! 🌷 At 10:30 AM, when the museum opens and our guests join us, we will highlight some oftentimes forgotten… Continue reading Terrific Tots

While the leaves might not change color much in Florida in November, the rest of the nation is having a slightly different experience! 🍂 Great Ex members who join us at 10:15 AM will create fall ornaments to hang in their windows.   Guests who join us when the museum opens at 10:30 am will be right… Continue reading Terrific Tots

It’s time to gobble gobble and eat with friends and family. 🦃 We will start our morning at 10:15 AM with our Great Ex members and a turkey shape matching game!  The museum opens at 10:30 AM for guests, which is the same time we open the book Pookie’s Thanksgiving, by Sandra Boynton. Then members… Continue reading Terrific Tots

Winter is coming ❄️ Winter may not actually start until the 21st, but it sure does feel like winter in December. As long as you don’t look at the temperature!  Maybe we are just too excited for the cold months, because at 10:15 AM our Great Ex members are celebrating the beginning of December with Wood… Continue reading Terrific Tots

We don’t see much snow in Florida. Which is part of what makes playing with fake snow so much fun! ☃️ We aren’t missing the snowstorms the north gets, even if they inspired our member craft this week. Our Great Ex members are going to make snow themed process art on canvas at 10:15 AM. They should… Continue reading Terrific Tots