As families gather together to celebrate Thanksgiving the Long Island Children's Museum has come up with several solutions to that ever-nagging question – What are we going to do with the kids for the long holiday weekend? The Museum is closed on Thanksgiving Day but has a jam-packed weekend planned, including this program, Messy Afternoons (also scheduled for Friday, November 26 from 1-3 p.m.).
Children will be up to our elbows in goop, guts, shaving cream and play-doh today, the type of artistic activities that everyone loves, but not one likes to clean-up after, except those at the museum!
- Ages: 18 months to 4 years.
- Free with museum admission.
While there, families can spend time together exploring the museum's newest exhibit, Toys: The Inside Story, until January 2. Peek inside some common toys while exploring the basics of pulleys, cams, gears, linkages, and circuits. Twelve different hands-on stations are featured illustrating the simple mechanisms commonly found in toys, and lets visitors create their own toy-like combinations. Exhibits are free form and open-ended; offering visitors the opportunity to figure out how to spin a ballerina, free "Jack" from his box and make Elmo dance. Toys: The Inside Story was created by Montshire Museum of Science and funded by the National Science Foundation. Local exhibit support is provided by Astoria Federal Savings.
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