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Sunday, January 13, 2013
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Cool Kids Winter Play| Lisle |
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A guided glimpse into the world of outdoor play will depend on the day. Possibilities include snowman and snow fort building with natural materials or garden scavenger hunt for natural objects
Where: Morton Arboretum
When: 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: Free with admission
Gnome Hunt| Lisle |
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Search for gnomes in the Children's Garden using your best "I Spy" skills. Checklist provided.
Where: Morton Arboretum
When: 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
Ages: Preschool, Elementary
Cost: Free with admission
Little Naturalists| Olympia Fields |
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Bring your budding naturalist to Irons Oaks to explore the natural world together. Each session a different natural topic is explored with activities, stories, games, or an art project. Dec. 13: Winter Birds; Jan. 23: Snow Fun; Feb. 13: Animal Tracks.
Where: Irons Oaks
When: 9:45-11 a.m.
Ages: Toddlers, Preschool
Cost: $6, $4 resident
WinterFest| Ingleside |
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Live music, snow-sculpting contest, photo contest, cross-country skiing, snow-shoeing and hiking. Hot drinks and cookies available for a donation.
Where: Volo Bog State Natural Area
When: Noon-4 p.m.
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: $5, $2 kids suggested donation
Unboxed: Adventures in Cardboard| Chicago |
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See a toy so amazing, so unbelievable, it has the power to transform into anything you want it to be. Enter a world where imagination rules, and ordinary becomes extraordinary.
Where: Chicago Children's Museum
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: Free with admission
How People Make Things| Naperville |
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A new traveling exhibit created by Children's Museum of Pittsburgh that links familiar childhood objects to a process of manufacturing that combines people, ideas and technology. Inspired by the factory tour segments from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, the exhibit offers hands-on activities using real factory tools and machines to create objects including crayons, a baseball bat and a matchbox car, just to name a few.
Where: DuPage Children's Museum
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: Free with admission
Tiny Great Performance: Perceptual Motion, Inc.| Naperville |
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Original choreography by Perceptual Motion, Inc. will highlight DCM's newest exhibit How People Make Things and will have children up and dancing.
Where: DuPage Children's Museum
When: 2 and 2:45 p.m.
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: Free with admission
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz| Glenview |
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The exhibit features the illustrations of W. W. Denslow, a Chicago resident whose famous illustrations helped to inspire the design of the classic 1939 MGM film starring Judy Garland. The bright and colorful exhibit provides a variety of learning opportunities and hands-on activities within a three-dimensional representation of Denslow's distinctive illustrations.
Where: Kohl Children's Museum
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: $9.50, $8.50 seniors
Ravinia Festival Music Makers| Glenview |
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Discover how sounds make music, and how music makes you feel, with activities like making melodies on bolt- and wrench-a-phones, using soft sculpture pegs to make a music box, blowing air over a reed, moving musical notes on a staff, beating percussion instruments, and creating an artistic masterpiece that reflects how music makes you feel
Where: Kohl Children's Museum
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: Free with admission
Dickens: 200 Years of Celebrity| Wauconda |
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Hundreds of objects and documents from the exclusive private collection, together with a rare collection of first editions of his most famous works, tell the story of how Charles Dickens and his characters became enduring cultural icons. Interactive and multi-media displays and personal effects take visitors through a chronological tour of the life, literature and legacy of Dickens. View his personal traveling inkwell, take a ride in an early century carriage, and learn about the memorable characters, stories and themes of his famous tales through games, time period puzzles and Dickens' own personal Facebook page.
Where: Lake County Discovery Museum
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: Free with admission
















