Five Fruits
Weekly Activities at Providence Children???s Museum
NOW OPEN! Voyage to Vietnam: Celebrating the Tet Festival showcases traditions, customs and values exemplified by the annual celebration of Tet. Through interactive exhibits, families will immerse themselves in Vietnamese culture, gain appreciation for traditions, values and daily experiences of people who live in Vietnam, and discover similarities and differences between their lives in the U.S. and the lives of children in Vietnam.?? Funded through a highly competitive national initiative by the Freeman Foundation Asian Culture Exhibit Series, and developed by Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, the Voyage to Vietnam exhibition is traveling to nine children’s museums as part of a national tour.
Five Fruits
Sunday, August 20 ??? Friday, August 25 ??????? 10:00 AM ??? 3:00 PM
Hungry for some Vietnamese Celebrations? Explore food and its importance to the celebration of Tet through art and culinary play.
Underwritten by the Levy Foundation.
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Get Out! Stomp Rockets
Tuesday, August 22 ??????? 1:00 PM- 3:00 PM
Kids use the power of air to blast a rocket high in the sky in the Museum???s Children’s Garden. Get out and play in the Museum???s Children’s Garden each Tuesday afternoon in August!
Underwritten by National Grid.
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Wheels at Work! Milk Truck
Wednesday, August 23?? ????? 10:00 AM ??? Noon
Explore vehicles you see out in your community up close, and talk with the people operate them. This week, check out a Munroe Dairy Delivery Truck.
Underwritten by Amgen.
Voyage to Vietnam: Story Time
Thursday, August 24?? ????? 10:30 AM & 11:15 AM
Embark on imaginative journeys while listening to Vietnamese tales, myths, stories and legends read by Museum Staff and South Providence Library???s Tien Tran.
Underwritten by the Levy Foundation.
MetLife Family Friday ?????Free at Five!????????????????????
Friday, August 25 ??????? 5:00 – 8:00 PM
The Museum is open free from 5:00 – 8:00 PM for ???MetLife Family Friday ??? Free at Five!,??? sponsored by MetLife Foundation.?? Stay out late and splash, play, explore and discover!
The Imperial Lion Dance Team! From 5:30 PM ??? 7:30 PM, enjoy a presentation or be part of a parade put on by members of a youth program who make up the Imperial Lion Dance Team from Worcester, MA. The show is very stimulating and contains loud drums and friendly, but fierce-looking costumed lions.
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Imagination Playground
Saturday, August 26?? & Sunday, August 27?? ????? 11:00 AM ??? 2:00 PM
Kids stack and build with big blue foam blocks, wheels, spools, tubes and a variety of loose parts to construct castles and forts, invent interesting sculptures and more!
Underwritten by the Dominion Foundation.
Visit www.ChildrenMuseum.org for a full calendar of events.