DCM's 2nd Birthday Party!

We're turning two!  Come celebrate and play with us!

Saturday, April 21—

"Paintfacing" (10am-3pm)

Try out your face painting skills. Are you a lion, a tiger, a bear?

"Open Studio" (10am-3pm)

Create a paper-plate weaving, make a sun catcher for your window at home, play in the sensory garden, and cozy up on the carpets to read and build with family and friends.

"Earth Balloon" (10:30am)

Try out a different kind of birthday-party inflatable! Take a quick world tour around a 19-foot globe, then unzip it and walk inside for a geographical journey you won’t forget.

"Birthday Animals with Della Where" (11am-1pm)

Sing a round of "Happy Birthday" to the DCM and explore the Etch A Sketch Animals of the Earth exhibition with your tour guide, Della Where. Pretend some of the baby animals are having a birthday, too, and imagine what kind of presents you'd get for them.

"Jungle John’s Exotic Animal Show" (11am)

Reptiles, amphibians, and insects, oh my!  Join Jungle John LaMedica for a show packed with animal facts, four-footed stories, Wally Gator (a 5-foot American alligator), Julius Squeezer (an 11 1/2-foot albino Burmese python), and the rest of his friendly animal crew.

"Earth Balloon" (12pm)

Try out a different kind of birthday-party inflatable! Take a quick world tour around a 19-foot globe, then unzip it and walk inside for a geographical journey you won’t forget.

"Jungle John’s Strolling with the Animals" (12-1pm)

Get up close and personal with some of Jungle John's favorite animals, as they stroll through the exhibition galleries.

"Earth Balloon" (1pm)

Try out a different kind of birthday-party inflatable! Take a quick world tour around a 19-foot globe, then unzip it and walk inside for a geographical journey you won’t forget.

"DCM Dance Party" (2pm)

You say it’s our birthday? Shimmy and shake to some new classics and some old-time rock 'n' roll in our birthday dance!

Sunday, April 22—

"Paintfacing" (10am-3pm)

Try out your face painting skills. Are you a lion, a tiger, a bear?

"Open Studio" (10am-3pm)

Create a paper-plate weaving, make a sun catcher for your window at home, play in the sensory garden, and cozy up on the carpets to read and build with family and friends.

"Strolling Magic with Bill Kerwood" (10:45-11:45am)

Be on the lookout for stilt-walking specialist Bill Kerwood as he strolls through the Museum performing magic tricks and playing around from high up in the air.

"Birthday Animals with Della Where" (11am-1pm)

Sing a round of "Happy Birthday" to the DCM and explore the Etch A Sketch Animals of the Earth exhibition with your tour guide, Della Where. Pretend some of the baby animals are having a birthday, too, and imagine what kind of presents you'd get for them.

"Magic Show with Bill Kerwood" (12pm)

Join us for a fast-paced, fun-filled magic show with illusionist extraordinaire Bill Kerwood. This interactive show features mystifying sleights of hand, kid comedy, and memorable experiences for the whole family.

"We Kids Rock! with Bill Currier" (1pm)

Enjoy lively original songs and new arrangements of children's classics, performed with what kidzmusic.com called a "tremendous kid-centered sensibility."  We Kids Rock! introduces kids to a foot-tapping mix of rock ‘n’ roll, R&B, folk, country and gentle punk styles, and leaves the grown-ups clapping and swaying too.

Encore!

"We Kids Rock! with Bill Currier" (2pm)

Enjoy lively original songs and new arrangements of children's classics, performed with what kidzmusic.com called a "tremendous kid-centered sensibility."  We Kids Rock! introduces kids to a foot-tapping mix of rock ‘n’ roll, R&B, folk, country and gentle punk styles, and leaves the grown-ups clapping and swaying too.