Events
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Exploring Music
Are you ready to ignite your child's love for melodies and movement? Join us Wednesday at 10am for the ultimate musical adventure led by the amazing Kerry! From toe-tapping tunes to catchy sing-alongs, your little ones will be grooving, giggling, and discovering their inner rock star in no time! Free with admission or a CME…
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Field of Flowers
A bold criss-cross background sets the stage for this playful masterpiece—now it just needs a burst of kid-powered color! Kids can choose their favorite flowers, bring them to life with vibrant hues, and plant them in a cheerful grassy meadow of their own design. Free with admission or a CME membership, while supplies last.
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Poppies inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe
On Friday we’re making an oversized poppy inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe, who loved painting flowers larger than life so we could notice every detail. Why so big? Because sometimes the best way to see something small… is to make it HUGE! Free with admission or a CME membership, while supplies last.
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Curiosity Crew
Calling all curious toddlers! In Curiosity Crew, we experiment, explore, and learn through play. From mixing colors to building towers, each week’s activity encourages little brains to ask big questions. Who knew science could be this much fun?
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Some veggies grow above the soil, some grow below—we’re planting both! Join us to craft a vibrant medley of patterned fabric vegetables that truly can’t be ‘beet’! For a charming, homespun touch, add buttons as seeds or sparkling soil minerals to finish your one-of-a-kind garden. Free with admission or a CME membership, while supplies last.
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Tulip Collage
It is a little bit of this, a little bit of that—and a whole lot of blooming fun! Kids will create a tulip art piece that goes beyond the pretty petals to show the whole flower—bulb and all. It’s a gentle reminder that the real magic often happens behind the scenes… or in this case,…
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Artist of the Month – Alma Thomas
Our June artist of the month is Alma Woodsey Thomas. She was a Black American artist who is famous for her bright, colorful paintings filled with patterns — of circles, stripes, and dashes. Alma taught art to children for 35 years before becoming a painter when she was 68 years old! She never gave up on…
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Tuesday Studio – Dash Painting
Inspired by the bold, rhythmic work of Alma Thomas, this Studio session is all about color, pattern, and playful precision. Kids will explore painting in repeating patterns—circles, waves, and dashed lines—using a vibrant palette of colors. Along the way, they’ll experiment with what happens when certain hues sit side by side, discovering how colors can…
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Erupting Volcano
This Wednesday craft is wonderfully unpredictable. With just a few strong breaths, color spreads, stretches, and races across the page like molten lava finding its path. No two eruptions looked the same, but every single one was a little science experiment wrapped in pure creativity.
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Alma’s Art on a Circle
Each child starts with a circle placed somewhere on their paper and builds outward using rectangular and square shapes, creating patterns. Lines shift, repeat, and evolve as they go, giving each child the freedom to experiment with movement, balance, and design.
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Tuesday Studio – Flyswatter painting
We can’t quite put our finger on why this activity is such a smash hit. Maybe it’s the deeply satisfying THWACK of paint hitting the wall. Maybe it’s the thrill of being encouraged to make a mess vertically for once. Whatever the reason, this one delivers nonstop giggles every single time.
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Dino Footprinting
Things are about to get Jurassic in the MakerSpace on Tuesday. Kids will dunk tiny dinos in ink and send them stomping, charging, and rampaging across giant footprint-shaped paper to create wildly messy prehistoric art. From a T. Rex trail of destruction to a stegosaurus stomp-fest, every masterpiece will tell a story.