North Country Children's Museum

This Sunday’s art program is DIY Kinetic Sand!

Last week we made some chalk art for a cause in our Activist Art program.

Today in our Saturday Science program we learned all about food chains in the World Wide Web of Life!

Students in today’s Science innovators class learned about Alessandro Volta and created their own Voltaic piles!

Today in our FUNdamentals of music class we learned about texture! We learned about looping and layering instruments and solved puzzles that led us to play different instruments!

Only one spot left in our Wednesday Theater class! Classes are filling up. Click below for more info and to register: https://www.cognitoforms.com//northcountrychildrensmuseums

Come build a straw construction today! Test your architectural skills in our STEAM exhibit. #NCCM

Before stopping in the museum today, take a ride on our tractor parked outside! We’re open for play 10-5! #northcountrychildrensmuseum

Our Kid Composers class started off with a buzz! We learned about Rimsky-Korsakov and Flight of the Bumblebee, making wings and flying around to the music!

Penny checks out NCCM’s History Exhibit!

Come light up an electrical circuit board with our wonderful intern Levi. We are open today from 10 AM to 5 PM.

More inspiration for the upcoming Snowman Festival! Sculptor Andy Goldsworthy’s winter works. If your child has taken any environmental art classes with us, they’ve learned about Goldsworthy. If you’d like to sign your family up for the Snowman Festival, please do here: https://signup.com//invitatio/secure/12078764840109/false https://aesthesiamag.wordpress.com//andy-goldsworthys-ice/

Today in our Magic program we learned some cool magic tricks, created magical art with watercolors and salt and even had some magical crystals growing on the side!

We also made gingerbread dog houses!

This weekend, family programs include Melty Snowman Chemistry on Saturday at 11:00am and Encaustic painting with recycled candle wax on Sunday at 11:00am. Weekend family programs are included with admission & membership. For program descriptions, visit our website http://www.northcountrychildrensmuseum.org/events/

The birds are not going to go hungry if we have anything to do with it! Check out these cookies we’re leaving for the birds!

We’re making faux gingerbread playhouses for our dolls/action figures!

Saturday Science at 11am tomorrow. Come learn about the winter solstice and make an ice lantern. So cool! Included with admission and no need to preregister.

In our Winter Wonderland PreK Program we made sensory snowflake soup Pretended we were the dancing northern lights and painted with ice cubes!

This week's family programs include the science of Black Holes today at 11:00am and creating Giant Gingerbread Playhouses on Sunday at 11:00am. Included with membership and admission. Join us!

Thank you to Casella Waste Systems for the $1,000 donation to the Children’s Museum! We are so grateful to our corporate sponsors for supporting our programs and exhibits. Pictured in the photo are Emilia Gatti, NCCM Program Coordinator, Sharon Vegh Williams, Executive Director, Justin Leftwich Museum intern.

Today we welcomed The Crane School of Music student Jason Birsner to our fall music class and learned about the trombone! We also created jack-o-lanterns out of musical notation! #northcountrychildrensmuseum

Come test your engineering skills and build a marble run!

Explore geometry with geoboards. Learning through play at NCCM!

Come make a stringed instrument and explore sound and vibration at our steam table today! Activities change daily!#NCCM #STEAM

Making Magic wands in our Sunday art program. Our drop-in family art programs happen each Sunday at 11am with our wonderful arts educator, Liza Labarge Paige. Included with membership and admission, no need to preregister. Join us!

Thank you to the St. Lawrence Federal Credit Union for supporting the Children's Museum with a $1,000 donation! Donations to the museum make our programs and exhibits possible. In the photo are SLFCU Potsdam Branch Manager Alyssa Hicks and NCCM Director Sharon Vegh Williams.

We're open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 5pm. Visit our Reopening Page for details http://www.northcountrychildrensmuseum.org/reopening/ Come play!

Things are getting spooky at the children’s museum! Come paint a pumpkin at our STEAM table or stop by at 11 to make some edible blood at Dan’s science program!

It snowed outside and then we made it snow inside! Toddler STEAM Thursdays at 10:30. Free with admission to the museum and no need to register! #northcountrychildrensmuseum

Order online or stop by the museum front desk gift shop to purchase! Makes a great holiday gift.

Come make finger puppets with our wonderful college interns!

Hockey Trivia...Who won the 2018 NHL China Game played on September 15? Register NOW for tomorrow night's Trivia Fundraiser and support NCCM! https://www.cognitoforms.com//NorthCountryChildrensMuseumF

Guidebooks are in! Stop by and pick up your copy or order online today! Makes a great holiday gift! On sale for $14.95 https://www.cognitoforms.com//outandaboutinthenorthcountry

The Science of Time & Space with NCCM's science educator, Dan Bellinger. We're excited to start our new line up of Fall Drop-off Programs!

This weekend's program line up includes Light Up the Longest Night for Saturday Science at 11:00 and Leaving Cookies for the Birds for Sunday Art at 11:00! Included with admission and membership. Visit our website for program descriptions http://www.northcountrychildrensmuseum.org/events/ See you this weekend!

Today in our fall music class we welcomed @thecraneschool student Julia Stowell who taught us all about the trumpet! We also listened to Night on Bald Mountain and drew pictures to accompany it. #nccm

Changing light table activities at the museum. Come play with us! #nccm

In Thursday’s Toddler STEAM program we'll be making snow! . Program is for children 4 and under and their families. Included with admission and no need to preregister. See you Thursday from 10:30am -11:00am.

Don't miss out! Click here to join the fun https://www.cognitoforms.com//FamilyTriviaNightFundraiserO

Great to work with SUNY Canton faculty and students on the History of a North Country Childhood Exhibit. Pictured below is student Logan Coggins photographing artifacts for the digital interactive. https://www.canton.edu/news/2020/nccm.html

In our Winter Wonderland program we made igloos and melty snowmen! We also had an indoor snowball fight!

Listen to an interview with Out and About Family Fun Guidebook author Kendall Taylor and click here https://www.cognitoforms.com//OutAndAboutInTheNorthCountry to order your copy today! Makes a great Christmas gift!

Come play with your Adirondack animal avatar at the Children’s Museum. Great way to spend a rainy day!