Monthly Program Calendar

• Play Day

  Saturday, May 3
  9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

  • • Come explore 30,000 square feet of hands-on fun!

      • Pilot a tugboat down the Mighty Mississippi. Shop in the Little Winn-Dixie grocery store. The fun is never ending at the Louisiana Children’s Museum! 
        

• Celebrate Mothers Week
  

  Tuesday, May 7 – Friday, May 10
  9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

  The Museum will close early on Friday, May 10 at 1:30 p.m. in preparation for Children’s World’s Fair.

  All week celebrate Moms, aunts, grandmothers and other special ladies in our lives! Make a special Mother’s Day card in the Atrium and learn how to say “I love you” in different languages.Parents and caregivers step in as models in our Art Trek studio to help visitors create portraits inspired by the art of Mary Cassattin.

  Join us daily at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. for a Story Time reading of My Mother Had A Dancing Heart by Libba Gray. On Tuesday and Thursday, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., join in a Fetch! science experiment to create aromatherapy bath salts for a special lady while you learn how bath salts work to soothe our muscles and relax us.

  

• Children’s World’s Fair
  

  Saturday, May 11
  10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
  

  The 15th Children’s World’s Fair will be held on Saturday, May 11, 2013 at the Louisiana Children’s Museum and extending onto Julia Street.

  The Children’s World’s Fair is a daylong journey where are great big world will be brought down to size as children ages 4-14 explore games, music, literature, native attire, crafts and flavors as they travel the world without ever leaving Julia Street! This year’s event will highlight innovations, inventions, and “Big Ideas” in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) of our 8 featured countries: Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, Ireland, Monaco, Panama, and Vietnam.

  Click HERE for more information and to purchase tickets!

   

• Play Day
  

  Saturday, May 18
  9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

  Come explore 30,000 square feet of hands-on fun!

  Pilot a tugboat down the Mighty Mississippi. Shop in the Little Winn-Dixie grocery store. The fun is never ending at the Louisiana Children’s Museum!

  

• Tell Me A Story
  

  Saturday, May 25
  9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  

  Celebrate all forms of storytelling through performances and hands-on activities. At 11:00 a.m., join in an interactive storytelling, including puppetry, with Olayeela “Mama O” Daste and Briceshanay Gresham of the New Orleans Story Keepers. Use your imagination to express yourself creatively while you make a unique puppet using regular household objects.

  Use our stage and puppet theater to perform a puppet show! In our Art Trek studio, illustrate your own graphic storybook. Join us for a special Story Time at 1:00 p.m. where visitors help to tell the story in the picture book The Lion and the Mouse written by Jerry Pinkney.

   

Upcoming Events At The Louisiana Children’s Museum

Art Trek

Ideal for all ages!
Spark your creativity in Art Trek, the Museum’s working art studio where daily encounters explore a multitude of media and techniques including: drawing, painting, sculpture, screen printing, collage and more. Whether a walk-in art class, an in-depth workshop or week-long camp, the Museum’s experienced art teachers introduce budding young artists to curriculum that focuses on the history, aesthetics, production and appreciation of art. Children are challenged to think creatively, learn about artists and art forms, and create exciting, personal works of art.

Fetch! Science Activities

Ideal for all ages!
Fetch! Science Activities offer an opportunity for children to have fun while learning problem-solving skills and teamwork. Families can engage in interactive experiments that encourage the scientific process through active investigation of the the world around them.

Toddler Time

Ideal for ages 0-3
Toddler Time supports the social, emotional, motor and communication development of children in the Museum ages 0-3 years of age. We provide information on early childhood development to parents or caretakers through explanation of activities and suggestions for activities that parents can do with their children at home. Toddler Time sessions are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. and last approximately 20 minutes.