Earth Rocks! Spring Break Fest

Celebrate our amazing planet during DOE Spring Recess with Earth Rocks! — a week-long festival of hands-on exploration and discovery at Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

Throughout the week, activities are organized around three Earth-themed adventures. Join us today for activities focused on:

🌱 Soil, Plants, and Food

Discover the fascinating world of plants and sustainable food systems through interactive workshops and demonstrations. Explore plant-based dyes, learn about hydroponic farming with Mi Oh My Farms, and pot your own scented plants with Brooklyn Botanic Garden educators to take home and nurture.

Schedule

Programs

Animal Veterinary

🕒 10:30 am – 12:30 pm & 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Learn how to use tools such as a stethoscope, otoscope, and thermometer to perform a check-up on a fuzzy animal friend at our animal care station.

Indigo Dyes

🕒 11:00 am – 11:45 am & 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm

Join textile artist Nelise Charles for a fun and hands-on workshop where you’ll explore the amazing history of indigo and learn how to make this beautiful dye! Participants will get to create their very own Shibori designs, from dyeing the fabric to crafting a unique pattern. 

Please be aware that Indigo dyes do stain. Gloves for handling will be provided.

Painting with Fruits

🕒 12:30 am – 1:15 pm & 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm

Beet roots, turmeric stems and marigold petals have been used for thousands of years to create dye for clothing, paint, ink and more. Join our friends at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to design your own one-of-a-kind fan with beet, turmeric, and matcha ‘paint’, then pot up your very own marigold flower to take home and care for!

Earth Day Medley

🕒 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm & 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Tune in to Ants on a Log’s musical performance for children and other childlike people. Their award-winning music centers positivity, social justice, and silliness. This special Earth Day show features themes of climate justice, sustainability, and environmental education.

ColorLab Art Studio

Earth Homes

🕒 10:30 am – 12:30 pm & 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Create an Earth Home sculpture inspired by artist Beverly Buchanan in BCM’s art studio. Use materials like clay, sticks, rocks, and other natural materials to create your own small home structure. 

Nature’s Engineers STEM Makerspace

What’s the Juice?

🕒 10:30 am – 12:30 pm & 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Join us in Nature’s Engineers as we build our own food-powered battery and discover the amazing science of electricity.