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LEGO building for toddlers! Bring your imagination to build, stack, and sort using our enormous collection of DUPLOS. Construct your own architectural wonder or work together to build a museum-community sculpture.
10 AM
Join us with free admission and explore the museums at night! Beginning June 22, join us for free every Friday night this summer! We will gratefully accept donations for the Acton Food Pantry. Sponsored in part by Acorn Deck House...
4:30 - 8:30 PM
Water and oil don’t mix. But watch what happens when you add the fizz factor! Double, double, toil and trouble.
Sponsored by Middlesex Savings Bank, with additional support from Red Hat, Inc. © 2011 WGBH Educational...
Drop-in 1:00 - 4:00
Practice your directional skills as you use movement shapes to guide your family to the location of the buried treasure - gold coins! Outdoor program, weather permitting. © 2008 TERC
10 AM
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Join us for our weekly story time. We’ll bring the books; you bring your imagination!
11 AM
Marcel Duchamp didn’t believe in conventional art. He used everyday objects to make his art works. He loved the idea that accidents could create great masterpieces. Try your hand at our happy accident string drop, and see how little...
10 AM
Touch a real dinosaur fossil and pretend to be a paleontologist digging for dinosaur bones in our mock excavation site!
10 AM
You eat different foods – crunchy, chewy, crisp, and soft. What about birds? Test different shaped and sized bird beaks to discover what it really means to “eat like a bird”! Sponsored by Middlesex Savings Bank, with...
Drop-in 1:30 - 4:30
Remember how much fun you had as a child playing with mud? Mud is a fascinating material for children to work with. Explore the texture and feel of the mud and how it changes depending on how much water you add. Is the mud stiff? Gooey?...
Drop-in 10 AM
Parachutes fall slowly because of air resistance- the force of air against the open parachute. Design a parachute that floats safely to the ground-no crash landings allowed! Sponsored by Middlesex Savings Bank, with additional support from...
Drop-in 1:00 - 4:00
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Create a thaumatrope - an optical illusion toy that makes two pictures look like one. Learn about the persistence of vision as you make a fun toy that you can take home with you! Sponsored by Middlesex Savings Bank, with additional support...
Drop-in 1:30 - 4:30
Join us for our weekly story time. We’ll bring the books; you bring your imagination!
11 AM
Imagine yourself a chemist and use real laboratory tools to do experiments. Try your hand at doing wet chemistry in a model glove box and learn why some chemists use glove boxes and hoods. Reaction Station is funded by The Camille &...
Drop-in 2:00 - 4:30
Practice your counting skills as we read Phyllis Root’sOne Duck Stuck and then create a colorful collage showing animals helping a duck out of the muck! © 2008 TERC.
10 AM
Explore sound through singing and playing. Move, make music, listen, learn, and get a multi-sensory workout! Music improves your child’s memory, cognitive development, learning skills, and ability to express emotion. Plus, it’s...
1:00 PM
You eat different foods – crunchy, chewy, crisp, and soft. What about birds? Test different shaped and sized bird beaks to discover what it really means to “eat like a bird”! Sponsored by Middlesex Savings Bank, with...
Drop-in 1:00 - 4:00
Young children love to build. Join us to explore structure and design by building with many different kinds of materials. What material works best for making a bridge for toy cars? What works best for making a tall tower? What is it about...
Drop-in 10 AM
Are you curious about what’s inside telephones and computers? Discover resistors and capacitors as you uncover the inner workings of everyday objects. Sponsored by Analog Devices, Inc.
Drop-in 1:00 - 4:00
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Join us for our weekly story time. We’ll bring the books; you bring your imagination!
11 AM
Water and oil don’t mix. But watch what happens when you add the fizz factor! Double, double, toil and trouble. Sponsored by Middlesex Savings Bank, with additional support from Red Hat, Inc. © 2011 WGBH Educational Foundation...
Drop-in 1:00 - 4:00
LEGO building for toddlers! Bring your imagination to build, stack, and sort using our enormous collection of DUPLOS. Construct your own architectural wonder or work together to build a museum-community sculpture.
10 AM
Join us for Free Friday Night Fun all summer! From June 22 through August 31, both museums will be open beginning at 4:30 p.m. with free admission. Bring a picnic dinner to picnic under the stars, and explore the museums at night. ...
4:30 - 8:30
The Discovery Museums are turning 30 this year, and so is Bessie, our big, green dinosaur. So we’re having a birthday bash! Help us celebrate 30 years and enjoy fun activities all weekend.
All Day
Conduct your own paleontology dig in our giant outdoor sandbox. Bring a dinosaur and join in the fun! We’ll provide the sand, tools, and fossils.
All Day
Visit our face painting cart to decorate your cheek or hand with a colorful work of art!
All Day
Make a dinosaur puppet with popsicle sticks, paper, colorful decorations and a little imagination courtesy of Lakeshore Learning.
www.lakeshorelearning.com
Drop-in 9:00 - 4:00
Jump up and down with joy inside a bouncy house, courtesy of TEAMWORKS Acton. www.teamworksacton.com
Drop-in 9:30am - 1:00pm
Create a necklace in honor of Bessie the dinosaur’s special day.
Drop-in 10:00 - 12:00
Enjoy a unique opportunity to see native animals up close with a trained naturalist from the Blue Hills Trailside Museum. Learn about wild birds, reptiles, and mammals that live in your neighborhood. Handle natural history artifacts...
Drop-in 1:00 - 2:00
Learn about persistence of vision when you create a birthday-themed thaumatrope or wonder turner, an optical illusion toy that makes two pictures look like one. Sponsored by Middlesex Savings Bank, with additional support from Red Hat, Inc...
Drop-in 2:00 - 4:00
The Discovery Museums are turning 30 this year, and so is Bessie, our big, green dinosaur. So we’re having a birthday bash! Help us celebrate 30 years and enjoy fun activities all weekend.
All Day
Conduct your own paleontology dig in our giant outdoor sandbox. Bring a dinosaur and join in the fun! We’ll provide the sand, tools, and fossils.
All Day
Visit our face painting cart to decorate your cheek or hand with a colorful work of art!
All Day
Come hunt for dinosaur eggs with Bessie, dinosaur mascot of The Discovery Museums! Dinosaur treasures are hidden inside each egg. The Special grand prize is a free membership to The Discovery Museums. What will you discover inside your...
10 AM
Join us as local young magician Rupayan Neogy shares his talents with us! Showcasing a variety of tricks, he will confound and amaze in an interactive performance geared toward family audiences. For more information about Rupayan’s...
11 AM
Dressed for digging and protected by her pith helmet, intrepid fossil hunter Paulette Morin introduces children to the wonders of our prehistoric past and dinosaurs using her five-foot tall storybook and an assortment of real fossils the...
1:00 PM
Make an instrument anyone can play – a kazoo – and get the buzz on sound vibration. Can you play “Happy Birthday” for Bessie the dinosaur? Sponsored by Middlesex Savings Bank, with additional support from Red Hat,...
Drop-in 2:00 - 4:00
Play games, win prizes and enjoy the greatest hits from the 60s, 70s and 80s with the WODS street team!
Drop-in 2:00 - 4:00
Dance to acoustic Celtic tunes from the Stoneybatter Band!
Stoneybatter Band performance courtesy of Middlesex Savings Bank.
Drop-in 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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You have built amazing structures using DUPLOS, but have you ever used them to make a painting? Join us as we use DUPLOS to make colorful works of art.
10 AM
Join us as we learn about Helen Frankenthaler, a famous Abstract Expressionist artist. Learn about her painting technique, and experiment with color mixing as you make your own soak stain painting that you can take home with you! The SMART...
Drop-in 12:00 - 3:00
Stacy Kilb of the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources will present a program on how to recognize the Asian Longhorned Beetle and the damage it causes to our trees. Children can learn what they can do to help stop this...
11 AM
**This event has been rescheduled to August 21-26. We apologize for any inconvenience.**
The sky’s the limit! Learn more about how you can put your child’s dreams within reach at The U.Fund Dreams Tour. Visit the Career...
Drop-in 10 AM - 2 PM
Join us for our weekly story time. We’ll bring the books; you bring your imagination!
11 AM
Parachutes fall slowly because of air resistance- the force of air against the open parachute. Design a parachute that floats safely to the ground-no crash landings allowed! Sponsored by Middlesex Savings Bank, with additional support from...
Drop-in 1:00 - 4:00
Join us for a free special program, NanoDays@Night, part of the NanoDays™ nationwide festival of educational programs of hands-on nanoscale science and engineering activities. See nano gold, make a DNA necklace, change the color of a...
4:30 - 8:30
Explore sound through singing and playing. Move, make music, listen, learn, and get a multi-sensory workout! Music improves your child’s memory, cognitive development, learning skills, and ability to express emotion. Plus, it’s...
1:00 PM
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