Happy Halloween from all of us at KID Museum! We hope everyone has a safe and spooky day.
This week's Make it! DIY get's a little shadowy. Join Maker Educator Cori as she walks you through how to make some basic shadow puppets. Then, share what you made with #KIDmakes
It’s time to take your paper airplane making to the next level! Join Senior Maker Educator Ram as he walks you through all the steps you’ll need to make a Nakamura Lock and then watch your creation soar.
This week brings a brand new Make it! DIY project from Maker Educator Warren! Gears come in all shapes and sizes and power all sorts of machinery. Have you ever made your own? Break out your maker skills (and some cardboard) and follow along.
Make it! Learn at Home
Are you looking to enhance your child’s learning this school year? KID Museum’s real-time educational programming activates kids as makers and creative thinkers. Learn more: https://kid-museum.org/make-it/learn-at-home/
Keep Making Around the World this week and join Maker Educator Warren as he walks you through how to play and make your own Mancala board. Check out the full week of Make it! DIY projects right here to explore other maker activities from countries around the globe: https://kid-museum.org/make-it/around-the-world/
How are your Spy KIDs projects going? Need some inspiration? Check out how Maker Educator Dya made some of her own secret compartments around her own desk then try making some of your own: https://kid-museum.org/make-it/
Now more than ever, kids and families across our region need your support. Together, we will help our community get through this crisis and create solutions for a better future. Now more than ever, we need YOU. Be a #DifferenceMaker: https://kid-museum.org/support-kid/
Wow! Thanks to the KID Museum community we were able to donate over 150 face shields to front line workers last week. We're so thankful to the #maker community for coming together during this time. If you have access to a 3D printer, or can sew masks, you can get all of the information you need to contribute right here: https://kid-museum.org/our-response/face-shields/
Wow! Check out this short creative movie made last week for one of our Make it! Plus workshops. Discover how you can get creative while stuck at home with live, interactive programming led by our Maker Educators: https://kid-museum.org/make-it-plus/
Thanks to KID Museum members Christine Lima and her daughters for sharing their paper airplanes yesterday! We'd love to see what everyone makes this week: https://kid-museum.org/make-it/
Get ready for Valentine's Day this Sunday at KID! Make messages using binary beads, animate your own thaumatrope, and much more! Drop-in anytime between 10am and 5pm: kid-museum.org/admission/
Another successful “ball” drop at KID! Happy New Year! We’ll see you in 2020!
Invent the Future
We are thrilled to share our new short film that captures the journey of four middle school girls and their teacher as they navigate KID Museum’s Invent the Future Challenge. It’s a story about creativity, perseverance, and teamwork — and what it looks like to prepare all kids to be our future innovators. https://kid-museum.org/support-kid
Trick out your pumpkins with LEDs? Make your own costume? We'd love to see anything you've made for this spooky holiday. Happy Halloween from all of us at KID!
FutureFest - Cities & Transportation
FutureFest is just 3 weeks away—Sunday, Sept 15 in Downtown Silver Spring! The festival features KID City—an immersive, hands-on exhibit where kids and families will be building a city of the future from the ground up! Tell us: what are your predictions for the future of cities and transportation? #KIDFutureFest kid-museum.org/futurefest
FutureFest™ 2019
FutureFest — one of the DC region’s largest family festivals — has it all: Real fun. Real tools. Real skills for the future. Come see how — together — we can build a better world! Sunday, Sept. 15, 12-5pm in Downtown Silver Spring. kid-museum.org/futurefest
FutureFest - Food & Sustainable Living
From urban farming to plant-based living—what are your predictions for the future of Food & Sustainable Living? Come get inspired to protect life on this planet at FutureFest—Sunday, September 15 in Downtown Silver Spring. kid-museum.org/futurefest
KID Museum's FutureFest - Space & Exploration
FutureFest is coming, Sunday, September 15 in Downtown Silver Spring! What are your predictions for the future of Space & Exploration? kid-museum.org/FutureFest
Our Code Makers have been hard at work prototyping LED light shows. There are just a few spots left in camps all summer long: kid-museum.org/programs/summer-camps-2019/
Happy 4th of July from all of us at KID!
Curious about our weekend workshops? It’s a great month to sign up. Throughout May, all workshops at KID are only $10. kid-museum.org/hours-admission
Visit KID this weekend to enjoy a Fab Lab Spotlight Day on Saturday or our monthly Family Coding Day on Sunday! Drop-in for General Admission or register for a workshop and create a laser cut pendant or help us build a robotic carnival. kid-museum.org/hours-admission
We think our KID community is pretty fab! ❤️#HappyValentinesDay everyone.
A glimpse of our magnetic levitation (maglev) train activity at yesterday’s Japan Day — in slow motion so you can see this high-speed technology at work!
Rolling out the drawbridge for France Day! Join us and Alliance Française de Washington DC this Sunday, January 13 to explore France through hands-on activities, storytelling, and food from Crepes Parfait. kid-museum.org/france-day
Happy New Year 2019
Happy New Year from all of us at KID Museum, and a few of our stop motion animation filmmakers! Here's to a new year of possibilities exploring the world, and inventing the future!