Dive into a world of fun at Great Explorations Children’s Museum! Our event calendar features monthly theme days and special events, each bursting with joy and learning! Every month brings a new theme to life, offering families a delightful mix of playful activities and educational experiences. Alongside these, our special events are the cherries on top, providing unique and memorable adventures that are sure to bring smiles and laughter. It’s a year-round celebration of discovery and fun, perfect for little explorers and their families!
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Dive into a world of fun at Great Explorations Children’s Museum! Our event calendar features monthly theme days and special events, each bursting with joy and learning! Every month brings a new theme to life, offering families a delightful mix of playful activities and educational experiences. Alongside these, our special events are the cherries on top, providing unique and memorable adventures that are sure to bring smiles and laughter. It’s a year-round celebration of discovery and fun, perfect for little explorers and their families!
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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 complaints with the book The…
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 B.J. Novak (Yes, the guy…
🐍 Join our snakes for lunch! Get an up-close look as our resident snakes enjoy their meal and learn fascinating facts from our Critter Care Specialist, Cierra. It’s a fun, interactive experience that will leave the whole family with a new appreciation for these amazing reptiles! Every other Thursday 🕜 1:30 PM 📍 Great Ex Creativity Corner Included with standard…
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 guests will enjoy a reading…
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 Sandra Boyton. Then, to calm…
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 Bond. Science meets art in…
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 monsters what is, and what…
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 when our guests and members…
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 families by reading, Hero Mom,…
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 on time to hear the…
