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Cool Kids Winter Play

 | Lisle

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

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

 

Arbor Reading Adventures

 | Lisle

Interactive story time and fun crafts indoors before heading out on the grounds for a winter walk. Themes change each week. Wednesdays and Fridays.

Where: Morton Arboretum
When: 11-11:45 a.m.
Ages: Preschool
Cost: $5 (discounts for members)

 

Silo Exhibit

 | Glenview

Visitors can walk inside the two-story silo and turn the crank of a silage machine, watching "corn plants" delivered to the top of the silo. Plus, learn about the history of silos and silage, build miniature silos with building blocks simulating wood, brick and metal and much more.

Where: Wagner Farm & Heritage Center
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: Free with admission

 

Unboxed: Adventures in Cardboard

 | Chicago

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

 

Snow Much Fun

 | Chicago

Build a snow fort, throw snowballs, dress up a snowman and ice skate - all inside.
The brand new "ice" rink has more space to skate in your socks.

Where: Chicago Children's Museum
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: Free with admission

 

How People Make Things

 | Naperville

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

 

TRAINS – All Aboard Art!

 | Naperville

Kids enter artist Gino Severini's interpretation of trains by role-playing engineer, passenger or conductor in a child-size train and look for objects in an eight-foot wide "hidden pictures" mural of artist Don Stewart's "Steam Train."  Plus, enjoy specially designed wooden train tables and a huge new interactive crane.

 

Where: DuPage Children's Museum
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: Free with admission

 

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

 | Glenview

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

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

 
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