Fetch Summer Schedule

Here is the schedule of activities for the Museum’s FETCH!™ Lab. Activities will take place on the second floor of the Museum daily at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. and at 1 p.m. on Sundays. Activities are free with paid admission of $4 per person ages 2 and above. Children under the age of 2 are free.

June 7-15 “Ice Cream Shake"

Kids learn about the effects of heating and cooling as they change liquid cream into solid ice cream. Yumm!

June 16-22 “All Wound Up”

Kids will use rubber bands to power a racecar and then race them with others

June 23-29 “Blow it Away”

Kids build a car and use wind to see how far it can go!

June 30-July 6 “Float My Boat”

Kids investigate floating by building tinfoil boats and loading them with pennies until they sink.

July 7-13  “Set it Straight”

Kids will build a tabletop seesaw and learn about balancing.

July 14-20 “Eat Like a Bird”

Kids explore how the shape of a bird’s beak influences the bird’s food-gathering ability, and use their “beaks” to collect “food.”

July 21-27 “Train Your Brain”

Kids test their brains against homemade Stroop tests.

July 28-August 3 “Under Pressure”

Kids try to support a book with just one sheet of paper!

August 4-10 “Go Fly a Kite”

Kids will build kites out of household materials and explore how kites use wind to overcome gravity.

August 11-17 “Rescue Mission”

Kids must design and test a hook to rescue a sunken capsule.

August 18-24 “Size it Up”

Kids will turn a small picture of Ruff into a large one, building it one piece at a time.

August 25-31 “Hang Time”

Kids build and race simple helicopters.

September 1-7 “Stack Em Up”

Kids build towers as high as they can—out of paper cups!