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Great Lakes Children Museum
13240 S. West Bay Shore Dr.
P.O. Box 2326
Traverse City, MI 49685
(231) 932-4526
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Featuring November Programs...
Brain Storm Challenge, Focus Groups, Shop Your Community, Toddler Time, InterActive StoryTime, and More! |
Brain Storm Challenge Days
Mondays, November 7th & 28th - 11 am to 3 pm
When Traverse City Area Public Schools are scheduled to be closed on a Monday, the Museum is open. We usually offer special "Brain Storm Challenge" programming on these days.
Lumberjack Day - November 7th
Come to Lumberjack Day wearing your favorite flannel shirt. Count the bark rings on a slice of a sugar maple cut down years ago by a real lumberjack! Taste a flapjack for a snack. Help create a Lincoln Log jam at the water table at 2:00 pm. Help build a lumberjack bunk house out of newspaper logs. Paint Babe the Blue Ox a totally different color. Extra "lumberjack" games and crafts.
Energy Bus - November 28th
Here comes the bus! Find out what energy is all about. With hands-on experiments we will explore electricity and magnetism. Find out which makes a better battery; a potato or a pickle. Live Energy Bus demonstrations at 11:30 and 1:30.
The Energy Bus is made possible with a generous grant from Traverse City Light & Power.
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Discovery Center Focus Groups
November 8th & 9th - 6 to 8 pm
 Join us for a discussion about the future of the campus for the Discovery Center ~ Great Lakes. The Discovery Center currently includes four organizations: Great Lakes Children's Museum, Maritime Heritage Alliance, Traverse Area Community Sailing, and The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay.
Your valuable input will help guide the process for developing a long-range facilities plan for the site that houses the Great Lakes Children's Museum. For more information visit the special Discovery Center planning blog.
Registration is Required
To register, visit these links: November 8 session: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2413167850 |
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Shop Your Community Day
November 12th is Shop Your Community Day, when more than 50 downtown Traverse City merchants will donate 15% of their sales to the Great Lakes Children's Museum when you specify us as your choice. Shop your community in November and support the Great Lakes Children's Museum! For a list of participating merchants, visit the "Corporate Giving" section of our website. |
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November Toddler Time Schedule
Fridays, 10 am to noon
Toddler Time is offered Fridays from 10 am to 12 pm. It is an opportunity for toddlers to interact with each other and learn through a variety of activities and experiences. Toddler Time encourages toddlers' natural curiosity, enhances fine and gross motor skills, guides appropriate social behaviors, and facilitates essential cognitive growth. Most importantly, it's fun! Toddler Time is included with the price of admission or the cost of your annual membership.
Feed the Animals - November 4
Grab that bucket! The Animals are getting hungry. What will you feed them? Children will pretend to feed cardboard farm animals and gather colorful chicken eggs in a basket.
Tents and Tunnels - November 11
Children will discover the fun of playing in tents and tunnels and using blankets, tables and sheets to create their own special hideouts.
Bean Bag Fun - November 18
Children will fill their own bean bag with beans. We sew the bag closed. Have fun tossing bean bags thru hoops, into baskets, and at targets.
No Toddler Time - November 25
Toddler Time is funded by a grant from the Oleson Foundation.
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November InterActive StoryTime Selections
Stories with a Twist! Wednesdays, 11:00 am
InterActive StoryTime features great works of children's literature and activities and crafts led by Museum staff and volunteers, which enhances the experience for children and deepens their understanding of the selected book.
Barnyard Song, by Rhonda Growler Green, Nov. 2
The Barnyard Choir sure does sound sweet singing on a blustery autumn day. That is, until "Buzz, 'Choo!" Bee sneezes and the barnyard flu arrives. How will the choir sound then?
Time To Sleep,
by Denise Fleming, Nov. 9
Bear sniffs the air and smells winter on the way.
Little Beaver and The Echo, by Amy MacDonald, Nov. 16
Duck At The Door, by Jackie Urbanovic, Nov. 23
Quack, Quack! Who's there? It's Duck, and he is going to stay for the winter.
Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, Nov. 30
In this classic story, a little rabbit says goodnight to everything as he settles down to go to sleep.
 InterActive StoryTime is underwritten through a generous Early Childhood Reading Grant from the Target Foundation. |
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Holiday Giving at the Museum
 Between now and mid-December we will be collecting new and gently-used sweaters for neighbors in need. This collection is through the efforts of our neighbors at WCMU Public Broadcasting.
 When the Toys for Tots campaign kicks off in Traverse City later this month, we'll be a collection site for new, unwrapped toys to be distributed as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community.
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November Schedule Changes
The Great Lakes Children's Museum will be open on Monday November 7th and 28th, because the schools are scheduled to be closed.
We'll be closed on Thursday, November 24th for Thanksgiving. Following Thanksgiving, there will be no Toddler Time on Friday, November 25th.
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In childhood, we press our nose to the pane
looking out. In memories of childhood,
we press our nose to the pane, looking in.
~ Robert Brault
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