Make, Create, Tinker During Maker Mondays

Description

Maker Mondays

Mondays from July 6 through August 24 from 1 to 3 p.m.

Are you curious?  Do you like to tinker? Calling all DIY kids!  Join LICM each Monday as we explore the creativity and innovation used in the art of “making.”   Learn practical skills and spark your interest as we investigate different maker “mediums” from fabric to electricity to clay.  Join in the grassroots maker movement and discover the inventor in you!  This program is supported by the PSEG Foundation.

Ages:  3 and up.  Free with museum admission.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS:

New Traveling Exhibit:  Motion Mania! For Thrill Seekers of All Ages

Now through Sunday, September 6

Join in a summer of fun and head-spinning thrills at Long Island Children’s Museum.  Visitors will try their hand at designing their own roller coaster – from design to testing and then re-testing.  All kinds of physical forces are at play when you get onto a roller coaster or just go for a ride in a car.  This hands-on exhibit offers visitors the opportunity to explore science as they design amusement park rides, race tracks and superhighways.

Find out how slopes, loops, hills, curves, gravity or speed make a difference on how things move as you navigate balls through a variety of track designs.  Make discoveries about force and energy, about friction and stability, all the while having lots of fun.  This hands-on exhibit helps children develop their skills of observation, investigation, questioning and experimentation as they discover what affects how things move.  This exhibit was developed by Ontario Science Centre. Local exhibit support is provided by Astoria Bank.

All ages.  Free with museum admission.

Community Gallery  – “Critter”

Through September 6 

Lynbrook artist Aleksandr Razin, Ethan Abelev (9) and Michael Gordon (14) created a site-specific “critter” from discarded material and found objects. Drawings by Ethan and Michael that have inspired similar installations will also be on display.

All ages.  Free with museum admission.

Museum Hours:  Tuesday-Sunday from 10 am.-5 p.m. and most school holidays.  Museum admission: $12 for adults and children over 1 year old, $11 seniors, FREE to museum members and children under 1 year old. Additional fees for theater and special programs may apply. For additional information, contact .

 

Organizers

Event categories: Family and Workshops/Classes.Event tags: Exhibit, Family/Kids, Interactive, Museum, Nassau, Science, and Workshop.