Join The Iowa Children's Museum and New Pioneer Co-Op for a cool activity and sweet treats! We're making homemade ice cream for National Soft Serve Ice Cream Day (Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 6:30 PM) and YOU can join the fun from your own kitchen! Register today for this free online event! Be sure to…
Join us for a playful 30 minutes on Zoom for Kinder Sing-Along with the ICM! This is a free program for children and adults to interact together with songs, movement and stories. Registration is required. Register now! Kinder Sing-Along is a free program sponsored by Green State Credit Union. Upcoming Sing-Along Themes May 7 Singing…
Join us for virtual adventures, activities, and play in the FunLAB! During these online events, our museum educators hop on a virtual meeting with you to imagine, create, discover and explore. Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama, covered everything in dots and wasn’t sorry. You get to do the same in this interactive art making session! Using art…
Join us for virtual adventures, activities, and play in the FunLAB! During these online events, our museum educators hop on a virtual meeting with you to imagine, create, discover and explore. For our Kitchen Chemistry FunLAB, you can join ICM educators as we walk you through a few experiments you can do in your home…
In this virtual workshop we will take to the skies! ICM educators will teach you about the forces of flight and lead you in different flying experiments with paper airplanes. No pilot’s license is required to join this workshop! Materials needed: paper, paper airplane folding templates (found here), timer, measuring tape, paper clips, tape, a coin
Join ICM educators virtually as we take you through a variety of engineering challenges you can do at home! Try your hand at some cool things from building with ice to engineering a snow scooper! Messes are expected with this virtual workshop. Materials needed: Ice cubes, salt, snow (if possible), rice (if no snow), recycled materials…
Roses are red, violets are blue, let’s repurpose those recyclables into Valentines too! We will give you the tips and tricks on how to transform items in your recycle bin into a work of art. Materials needed: small cardboard box (we used a mac and cheese box), scrap paper, magazine paper, masking tape, scissors, mod…
Draw along with us as we explore different children’s book illustrators! In this zoom workshop, you will be guided through how to draw a character that you can customize and make in your own likeness! Materials needed: paper, pencil, eraser, colored pencils/markers, etc.
Noon Year's Eve is going to look different this year, but it's going to be just as much fun! Join Jeff and our mascot, Pete, as they embark on a scavenger hunt around the museum. This will lead up to the big (virtual) balloon drop! Tune into our Facebook page to watch this Very Special…
Follow along as we explore the world through the eyes of an engineer! Using commonly found household items, we will create simple structures like towers and bridges along with simple machines like a lever and a ramp.
