Laredo Children’s Museum

Exhibitions:  Grocery store, construction area, toddler area, hospital
area, computer lab, sand/water table, momentum machine, liquid crystal
mood chairs, theater area and many other science exhibits.

Workshops:  Every other week the Laredo Children’s Museum holds a Sunday
afternoon Arts & Crafts Workshop for children and their families.  The
workshops teach children and parents different arts and crafts.

Summer Camp:  For the fifth year in a row, the museum has held a summer
camp for children ages 6-11.  This camp is entitled “Hands on Your Hips”
and focuses on campers learning important lessons about helping
themselves and others.  Previous themes have been “Hands on Science” and
“Hands Around the World.”

Elementary School Programs:  The museum has outreach programs with both
our local school districts.  These programs have focused on reaching
Laredo’s outer and lower income neighborhoods.  The Crayola grant has
been instrumental in conducting an art related program to these
children.
We have also received funding from the Texas Commission on the Arts to
go out to the outlying, economically deprived areas of Laredo to foster
and preserve the unique, artistic and cultural history of the South
Texas border area.  By doing this, we teach children of the area the
arts and crafts of their forebears.

 Calendar of Events:

Summer 1998
Exhibits
“A Brighter Future” exhibit, displaying various careers will be open at
the museum through August.
“The Police Motorcycle” exhibit, the latest edition to “A Brighter
Future”, will open on July 12.  Children can dress-up as police
officers, write traffic tickets and play on an actual police motorcycle.

Fall 1998
Exhibits
The museum is currently preparing for a new traveling exhibit.  “Get
Physical”, developed by Discovery Place Inc., will open in September.
This interactive exhibit will allow children to explore the areas of
total health and well being.  Children can check their blood pressure,
pulse rate and body fat percentage.
Sunday Family Afternoons, “Kids in the Kitchen” workshops will be one
Sunday a month from October through January.  Local chefs and speakers
from the community will come to the workshops and teach an activity to
the children. Come join us!
October- Scary Halloween Snacks
November- Guest Chef
December- Christmas Cookies
January- Super Bowl Snacks

Saturday Afternoon Workshops, “Super Sneaker Saturdays” will take place
one Saturday a month from 11:00a.m.- 12:30p.m.  The workshop activities
will compliment the traveling exhibit Get Physical.



Programs
Outreach programming to the Colonias (underprivileged areas) will
continue through continued funding from the Texas Commission on the
Arts.

The toddler Tuesday program will start again in September, after a very
successful year.  Parents and toddlers experience various early
childhood art activities and presentations.  All activities are age
appropriate for toddlers.


Winter 1998-1999

The Laredo Children’s Museum will host the Winter Village at Mall Del
Norte November through December.  Experience a White Christmas as you
walk through this winter wonderland.
Performance
December 1998—The Laredo Children’s Museum will sponsor for the sixth
year, the production of
 The Nutcracker Ballet.  The performance is presented by the Laredo
Ballet Theatre, and is performed, directed and choreographed by local
talent.

Event

February 1998—Children’s Funfest sponsored by HEB food stores.  The
Children’s Funfest is held each year on the grounds of the Laredo
Children’s Museum.  The museum is the designated benefactors of this
event, held in conjunction with the Washington’s Birthday Celebration.


Spring 1999
Performance

The Laredo Children’s Museum will sponsor “Cinderella In Spain” from
Opera To Go, a professional touring organization which produces one-act
operas.  The productions are fully-staged, 45-minute operas, which uses
puppets and live performers to tell the story.

Fall 1999

An interactive Papermaking exhibit will come to the museum September
through November.  Children will learn how papermaking has evolved from
its earliest forms to the mass production technology of today.