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.

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.

The Nature of Music: Aerophones

🕒 11:00 am – 11:30 am, 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm

How can you create music through air? In this workshop led by musician Nedelka Prescod, create an air-animating instrument using recycled and organic materials and explore mindfulness through breathing exercises. Then as a group, we’ll use air to animate our instruments to make music together!

Billion Oyster Project

🕒 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Discover the intricate connections between predators and prey in New York Harbor with Billion Oyster Project’s NY Harbor Food Chain Activity! Using interactive cutouts and field guides, participants will build their own food chains and explore how energy flows through aquatic ecosystems. Join us for a fun, hands-on experience highlighting the vital role of oyster reefs in supporting aquatic life!

Save The Earth

🕒 11:30 am – 12:00 pm, 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Join Cues for a demonstration & take-home scavenger hunt of “how to save your garbage from the garbage”- a hands-on lesson of the “4 Rs” (reuse, repair, remake, recycle). There will be various bags of things destined for the landfill, which kids can help save from polluting the Earth.

Friends of Brower Park

🕒 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Learn more about the science behind structures of plants by using carnation flowers and colorful dyes with Friends of Brower Park.

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.