Utica Children's Museum

This is a great project for the weekend... all you need is salt, glue, paper and watercolor paints! https://www.naturalbeachliving.com/how-to-make-the-best-ha/

Favorite Photos Friday! Our Cultural Art Series featured friends and activities from different countries who walked visitors through the background of the craft they chose. Here is a young museum-goer with her coquí. Find out more about why this cute tree frog is the national symbol of Puerto Rico! https://theculturetrip.com//heres-why-the-coqui-frog-is-t/

Favorite Photos Friday! Local artist Dave Mentus joined us for a fun "Draw Your Name Graffiti-Style" class and helped kids get creative!

Museum Director Donna Migliaccio is back on the UCM blog! After asking some youngsters what they are liking about remote learning, here is what she found out! READ NOW: http://uticacm.org/category/ucm-blog/

A call for artwork! We're looking to showcase lots of great pumpkin art this month on our Facebook page. Kids grab any medium you'd like and create a pumpkin to be featured in our gallery. Parents submit artwork by messaging us through Facebook by Friday, October 23rd. We will post the gallery the last week in October! Let's get creative!!!

Favorite Photos Friday! A team from Berkshire Bank spent the afternoon with us a couple summers ago for their "Xtraordinary Day", where ALL of their branches closed for the afternoon to allow their employees to go out and do great work in their communities. They are such a fun group and we're thankful for their partnership and support!

It's time for fall crafts! These leaf sun catchers are great and just need 3 types of paper: tissue paper, construction paper and clear contact paper... and some glue! Here's how to do it step-by-step! https://www.fantasticfunandlearning.com/fall-craft-for-todd

Favorite Photos Friday! Who remembers when we transformed our third floor into a magical Princess Breakfast event?! What fun!

For our next blog post, we would like to hear right from the kids, who are navigating a different way to learn and are doing a great job tackling school in a whole new way! If there is something you really LIKE about remote learning, we'd like to collect some positive aspects of doing school at home for the post. Please complete this sentence in the comments: "The best thing about remote learning is.......... " and include the student's first name and age. We will select som...e answers to be included in our blog post, coming out next week! It will be fun to look at at this in many years to remember the silver linings and how kids lived during 2020!

Talent. Trust. A strong parental bond and a WOW factor!!!! Check out this amazing stunting father/daughter duo!

Rocks are a great way to introduce your children to collecting how to search, clean, research, learn, catalog and display! Here's a great article with some tips to get you started. https://earlylearningideas.com/activities-with-rocks/