Let’s make music, build complex structures, create art, explore new foods, and much more—together!

Join us from April 7-11 for a week of very special programming! LSC celebrates the nationally observed Week of the Young Child, April 6 - 10. Younglearners, their families, and their educators are invited to join us for special programmingmatched to each day’s theme. Let’s make music, explore new foods, build complexstructures, create art, spend time with our families, and much more—together!

Event Highlights:

Music Monday - April 6

  • Chrome Music Lab’s Kandinsky Art: Turn your digital art into music and sounds right before your eyes and ears! Make a drawing and see what it sounds like.
    • Time: 10:00 - 4:00
    • Location: CLT Forum, 1st floor
  • Den Den Drums: Use a variety of very simple materials to construct your own den den drum to keep. Celebrate another culture’s musical instrument.
    • Time: 10:00 - 4:00
    • Location: CLT Forum, 1st floor
  • Large Floor Piano: Toe tap your way on a giant floor piano to celebrate the day!
    • Time: 10:00 - 4:00
    • Location: CLT Forum, 1st floor

Tasty Tuesday - April 7

  • Turtle Feeding: Help us keep our Eastern box turtle healthy during this live turtle feeding. What foods do you think we should use to feed our turtle today?
    • Location: Wild About Animals, 3rd floor
  • Cook with Chef Robbie Felice: Join James Beard Award Nominee Robbie Felice in a family cooking class using child-friendly tools to make your very own meal. (Space is limited! Free tickets will be distributed on site—first come, first served.)
    • Special scheduled time slots: 11am, 12pm, 2pm, and 3pm.
    • Location: CLT Entrance and Forum, 1st floor

Work Together Wednesday - April 8

  • Superspace Tiles: Build a structure of your pure imagination using extra-large magnetic tiles. From ships and planes to homes and cars, we’ve seen all kinds of structures. What will you make?
    • Time: 10:00 - 4:00
    • Location: CLT Forum, 1st floo

Artsy Thursday - April 9

  • LSC Mosaic: Help celebrate Artsy Thursday as we spell out the letters LSC using colorful dots. Use as many colors as you’d like to help bring our colorful mosaic to life.
    • Time: 10:00 - 4:00
    • Location: CLT Forum, 1st floor
  • LSC Art Display: Visit the CLT to explore the LSC art exhibition, featuring ScribbleBots, a functioning 3D printer, and our Painting HexBugs!
    • Time: 10:00 - 4:00
    • Location: CLT Entrance and Forum, 1st floor
  • Pop-Up Labs! Join us for a series of pop-up activities throughout the day, including Shadow Art, "Art-chitecture" building design, and Cockroach Painting!
    • Lab Times: 10:00 - 11:00, 12:00 - 1:00, 2:00 - 3:00
    • Cockroach Painting: 11:30 - 12:00, 1:30 - 2:00, 3:30 - 4:00
    • Location: CLT Gamma Lab, 1st floor

Family Friday - April 10

  • Family Resource Fair: Celebrate Family Friday by joining us for this fun, family-friendly resource fair in our building to explore different partners ready to speak about ways they can support your child’s growth and development.
    • Time: 10:00 - 3:30
    • Location: CLT Forum, 1st floor

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Perfect for young learners age 8 and under

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