Join Blossom, a honeybee, to explore the life of honeybees from egg to honey-making experts. Make scientific observations and practice matching skills as we explore together.
Join Blossom, a honeybee, to explore the life of honeybees from egg to honey-making experts. Make scientific observations and practice matching skills as we explore together.
Tots + Caregivers: You are invited to meet the red wiggler worms who are busy at work making compost for CMTM's garden! Get hands-on as we sift out compost, make new worm bedding, and plant seeds to explore the wonderful work worms do.
Tots + Caregivers: April showers bring May flowers! Get ready to celebrate Earth Day at CMTM by exploring the water cycle. We will go on a dramatic rain journey, acting out how rainy weather comes to be and why it is so important to our wonderful, colorful Earth.
Tots + Caregivers: Grab your magnifying glass! Today we become detectives and use our senses to look, listen, and even smell clues to discover the mystery of water creatures!
Grab your magnifying glass! Today we become detectives and use our senses to look, listen, and even smell clues to discover the mystery water creatures!
Science for Tots is a weekly gathering of families with children five and under to explore many aspects of science through an early childhood lens. Educators use play, drama, movement, and sensory investigations to explore topics from as small as microbes to as large as whales! Each interactive program could include science experiments, meeting live animals, and art making. These activities, carefully crafted for our youngest visitors, will have children intrigued, giggling, sharing, and engaged in playful learning. Come for one week or join together weekly to grow our community and future environmental stewards.
Location: IDEXX STEM Learning Hub
Celebrate Women’s History Month each Wednesday as we meet women masters of art and follow in their footsteps to do our own art creation. Today we will create fabric collages like contemporary quilter Bisa Butler. Come explore new materials and methods while learning about fascinating women makers!
Location: IDEXX STEM Learning Hub, 3rd Floor
Come celebrate some of the mightiest scientists in honor of Women’s History Month! Together we will learn about the first female paleontologist Mary Anning and explore some of the Children’s Museum & Theatre’s fossil collection!
Science for Tots is a weekly gathering of families with children five and under to explore many aspects of science through an early childhood lens. Educators use play, drama, movement, and sensory investigations to explore topics from as small as microbes to as large as whales! Each interactive program could include science experiments, meeting live animals, and art making. These activities, carefully crafted for our youngest visitors, will have children intrigued, giggling, sharing, and engaged in playful learning. Come for one week or join together weekly to grow our community and future environmental stewards.
Location: IDEXX STEM Learning Hub, 3rd Floor
Come celebrate some of the mightiest scientists! Hear all about one of the first ever people to study and love sharks – Eugenie Clark! Together we will learn about Eugenie and study the Museum and Theatre’s very own shark duo!
Science for Tots is a weekly gathering of families with children five and under to explore many aspects of science through an early childhood lens. Educators use play, drama, movement, and sensory investigations to explore topics from as small as microbes to as large as whales! Each interactive program could include science experiments, meeting live animals, and art making. These activities, carefully crafted for our youngest visitors, will have children intrigued, giggling, sharing, and engaged in playful learning. Come for one week or join together weekly to grow our community and future environmental stewards.
Location: IDEXX STEM Learning Hub, 3rd Floor
The Big Night is near! Every spring in Maine, hundreds of thousands of amphibians such as frogs awaken to leave their underground homes in the pouring rain, to make the journey to vernal pools, known as Big Night. Learn about this unique amphibian migration by acting out the life cycle of a frog.
Science for Tots is a weekly gathering of families with children five and under to explore many aspects of science through an early childhood lens. Educators use play, drama, movement, and sensory investigations to explore topics from as small as microbes to as large as whales! Each interactive program could include science experiments, meeting live animals, and art making. These activities, carefully crafted for our youngest visitors, will have children intrigued, giggling, sharing, and engaged in playful learning. Come for one week or join together weekly to grow our community and future environmental stewards.
Location: IDEXX STEM Learning Hub, 3rd Floor
The snow has melted and the rain is coming, it’s time to make a home for a salamander! Use your imagination and science to design a wonderful home for a pretend salamander. Throughout this exciting activity, we will be learning how real salamanders and many other creatures survive in the special habit of vernal pools.
Science for Tots is a weekly gathering of families with children five and under to explore many aspects of science through an early childhood lens. Educators use play, drama, movement, and sensory investigations to explore topics from as small as microbes to as large as whales! Each interactive program could include science experiments, meeting live animals, and art making. These activities, carefully crafted for our youngest visitors, will have children intrigued, giggling, sharing, and engaged in playful learning. Come for one week or join together weekly to grow our community and future environmental stewards.
Location: IDEXX STEM Learning Hub
Grab your magnifying glass! Today we become detectives and use our senses to look, listen, and even smell clues to discover the mystery flying creatures!
Science for Tots is a weekly gathering of families with children five and under to explore many aspects of science through an early childhood lens. Educators use play, drama, movement, and sensory investigations to explore topics from as small as microbes to as large as whales! Each interactive program could include science experiments, meeting live animals, and art making. These activities, carefully crafted for our youngest visitors, will have children intrigued, giggling, sharing, and engaged in playful learning. Come for one week or join together weekly to grow our community and future environmental stewards.
Location: IDEXX STEM Learning Hub, 3rd Floor
Come explore the invisible! Conduct an experiment with some of the smallest living things on the planet. Learn all about yeast and the tiny organisms that make up our world!
Science for Tots is a weekly gathering of families with children five and under to explore many aspects of science through an early childhood lens. Educators use play, drama, movement, and sensory investigations to explore topics from as small as microbes to as large as whales! Each interactive program could include science experiments, meeting live animals, and art making. These activities, carefully crafted for our youngest visitors, will have children intrigued, giggling, sharing, and engaged in playful learning. Come for one week or join together weekly to grow our community and future environmental stewards.
Location: IDEXX STEM Learning Hub: 3rd Floor
Join us for sensory foam art! Create a colorful Valentine’s card for one of our very own aquatic friends at CMTM using puffy, fluffy foam!
Science for Tots is a weekly gathering of families with children five and under to explore many aspects of science through an early childhood lens. Educators use play, drama, movement, and sensory investigations to explore topics from as small as microbes to as large as whales! Each interactive program could include science experiments, meeting live animals, and art making. These activities, carefully crafted for our youngest visitors, will have children intrigued, giggling, sharing, and engaged in playful learning. Come for one week or join together weekly to grow our community and future environmental stewards.
Location: IDEXX STEM Learning Hub, 3rd Floor
