Our first day of the Show & Tell Showcase officially kicked off! We tap danced 🕺, made pottery 🏺, played the violin 🎻, and knit 🧶 the day away... Don't forget to join us tomorrow and Monday for more skills, hobbies, collections, and fun from the CCM team (and extended hours of 10am to 5pm on Monday, Feb. 19)!
Learn more at chicagochildrensmuseum.org/program-calendar.
🎪 Circusville opens NEXT WEEK on Thursday, January 25! 🎪
Have you ever wondered what it's like to swing from a trapeze bar? Have you ever tried to dazzle an audience with your spinning plates skills, or dared to explore a new point of view from a high pair of stilts?
Circusville: Play Under the Big Top lets littles explore all of that, and more! Whether they take on the role of acrobat or ticket taker, every child can express themselves, unleash their imaginations, embrace new challenges and shine!
On Monday, January 15 from 10 am to 5 pm, join Chicago Children's Museum to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with a story lounge and special print-making workshop in Art Studio!
If you can't join us in person, explore digital resources on our website like this one to encourage reflection and conversation at home with your littles. Read along with CCM friends to learn about the contributions of Dr. King, Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges and African American inventors who have touched our everyday lives!
Discover more at chicagochildrensmuseum.org/mlk-day-celebration.
It's getting chilly outside 🥶 Warm up with Hebru Brantley's Flyboy and Chicago Children's Museum. We're open daily through January 7 for Winter Weeks of Play! Enjoy special activities and fun for everyone!
Season's greetings from Chicago Children's Museum! ❄️ Starting December 12, join us in Art Studio to shape anything from pretend cookies to latkes, from dinosaurs to astronauts, out of our handmade, scented play dough.
Art Studio has been hosting this dough workshop for more than a decade. ✨ That's a decade of memories, traditions, and play for families, children, and our Art Studio staff!
If you want to bring a little taste of Art Studio into your home, use our recipe to make your own dough sculptures.
🎁 Let's unbox a membership at Chicago Children's Museum! 🎁
Every membership includes...
🎟️ Free daily admission to exhibits and programs
📅 A rotating calendar of playful workshops in Art Studio and Tinkering Lab
🚗 Discounted (or free) Navy Pier parking
🎉 50% off general admission at more than 300 children's museums worldwide
🌎 Exclusive offers to cultural events and destinations in the city and around the world!
Chicago Children’s Museum membership or ticket is the ultimate gift for parents, caregivers, and the little ones in their lives: lasting memories and new family traditions!
🎁 Explore gift options at chicagochildrensmuseum.org/giftofplay.
(Plus, every purchase of a membership or ticket provides valuable support for CCM's mission to give the gift of play to all.) #TheGiftofPlayatCCM
What can you create in Tinkering Lab? A group of four tiny tinkerers, accompanied by their au pair Leticia, constructed a 🔍 magnifying glass, 🪇 maraca, 🖼️ picture frame, and 🔌 "wire plug" (in the words of the youngest).
During their first visit to Chicago Children's Museum (and to Chicago) from St. Louis, these littles let their imaginations run free as they crafted unique creations in Tinkering Lab!
This #GivingTuesday, give the gift of play with a donation to Chicago Children's Museum, so we can continue providing playful learning experiences for problem-solvers, learners, make-believers and their caregivers.
🎁 Visit chicagochildrensmuseum.org/giftofplay to make a difference today! #TheGiftofPlayatCCM 🎁
A few weeks ago, Chicago Children's Museum Educators had the opportunity to learn more about woodworking with Chicago Furniture Restoration Owner, Joseph Budka. Joseph has more than 15 years of experience designing, building, and restoring furniture and has been a visiting artist at CCM!
🔨 Our Educators learned more about tool safety, and how to plan and execute woodworking projects.
🔨 Everyone got to create their own functional piece, like a glasses caddy, hat rack, or shadow box.
🔨 Educators tinkered and problem-solved with tools like hammers, nails, handsaws and power drills! These are tools that we are looking to bring to #TinkeringLab for future workshops.
These training opportunities are a vital way to engage staff in playful learning to grow and thrive as makers, educators, explorers and professionals... so we can create a space where play and learning connect!
📅 TODAY, catch the first screening of My First Movies: Short Films for You and Your Littles at 10:30 am (and again at 12:30 pm)! 🎬
This 15-minute FREE program of short films hand-picked for your littles by @FACETSChicago will bring out smiles, and giggles to spark a lifetime love of cinema. Join us on Navy Pier's Fifth Third Family Pavilion Grand Stairway and Landing every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday now through Nov. 2 at 10:30 am and 12:30 pm! (Plus, get a 10% discount on Navy Pier parking 🤭)
🔗 Find out more at chicagochildrensmuseum.org/my-first-movies
Become a sponsor at 2023 Gala: The Future is Play and see your impact in action! Your donor support helps Chicago Children's Museum's work in our museum and throughout our communities in many ways, including Museums for All which ⭐ reached families in an equity-driven, income-based program committed to access and ⭐ serves over 4,000 guests a month. Explore sponsorship opportunities and RSVP at ccmgala.org.
Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites™📚opens TODAY (Sept. 16)! Littles of all ages explore beloved childhood books while developing six important pre-reading skills. ✨Which books do you spot 👀 in Storyland?! © 2023 Minnesota Children's Museum. All rights reserved. Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites™ was created by Minnesota Children's Museum. This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Thank you, Fox 32 Chicago's Tim McGill for visiting the Museum last week!
Thanks, WGN TV and Marcus Leshock, for visiting the Museum last weekend!
"I'm invincible
Yeah, I win every single game
I'm so powerful
I don't need batteries to play
I'm so confident
Yeah, I'm unstoppable today"
- from Unstoppable by Sia Furler and Chris Braide
NBC Chicago Features Chicago Children's Museum
Thank you, WMAQ-TV 5 NBC Chicago, for the lovely feature about the fun exhibits at the Museum this summer from the Zoom Room to Cloud Buster!
