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Outreach workshops in this category are based on the Museum's "All ABout Art" exhibit which explores how light, color, texture, space, and form guide the creative process. Each activity is 45-mintues in length, facilitated by a Miami Children's Museum Educator who brings materials for up to 25 participants.
View our options below then reserve your program or email us to learn more.
The scientific method is a toolkit used to investigate Planet Earth by observing, questioning, and experimenting. Pair it with art to discover the known universe, from Florida’s backyard to outer space.
Learn about unique South Florida wildlife (like alligators, panthers, and spoonbills) and the traits they need to survive. Then, paint their forms with your hands.
Ideal for 2 to 8 Year Old Children
Discover how animals from across our planet are similar and different based on geography. Then, choose one to block print with your favorite color.
Ideal for 4 to 8 Year Old Children
Journey through different landforms on our vast planet. Then, using paints mixed with different textural elements (like yarn, sand, rice, and feathers) create a textured landscape.
Ideal for 4 to 8 Year Old Children
Dive beneath the water’s surface and identify what makes a marine environment so unique. Then, using white oil pastels and watercolor paints, create an ocean ecosystem.
Ideal for 4 to 8 Year Old Children
Voyage through our atmosphere and beyond to learn about the vastness of outer space. Then, with vivid paints and foil, create a sci-fi adventurescape.
Ideal for 4 to 8 Year Old Children
A child’s identity is fundamental to building a positive sense of self as well as peer relations. Create artworks that celebrate cultures inspired by artists from around the world.
Use a variety of multi-colored textiles, fabrics, and papers to showcase not just how you look, but how you FEEL.
Ideal for 6 to 8 Year Old Children
Create unique personal portraits using black and white photography accented with boldly colored fabric and yarn.
Ideal for 6 to 8 Year Old Children
“Paint” flowers with contrasting hot and cold colors via tissue paper, glue, and cardstock. Explore plant anatomy along the way.
Ideal for 4 to 8 Year Old Children
Travel through India’s mid-century contemporary art scene and make hanging flags with stencils or free-form designs.
Ideal for 4 to 8 Year Old Children
Create individual segments of mixed media collage works and display them as a cohesive magnetic mural.
Ideal for 4 to 8 Year Old Children
Focused movement may directly benefit physical health, but it also strengthens memory, perception, and even emotions. Combine it with art to create some truly memorable projects.
Use a variety of motor skills and motion plus a moving light source (like a flashlight, glow stick, light brush, and fiber optics) to create an image using a long exposure camera. Each participant takes home their special photograph.
Ideal for 6 to 8 Year Old Children
Journey through a history of animation. Then draw 11 cells and spin in our zoetrope to see how motion gives the illusion of movement. Participants will take home in a flip-book and/or an animated gif.
Ideal for 6 to 8 Year Old Children
