Being green isn’t a new idea! Long ago, kids and families reused and “recycled” materials every day, sometimes in surprising ways. Make a plastic basket or braided rug out of recycled materials, and use your detective skills to figure out what different historic artifacts were made from.
Can you decode the hidden messages? Be a super sleuth for the day and try to deduce the meaning behind symbols used by people long ago and today. Send a secret message using the Victorian language of flowers or the modern day language of emojis! Kids can also make a Victorian flower bookmark or an emoji stress ball.
Can you decode the hidden messages? Be a super sleuth for the day and try to deduce the meaning behind symbols used by people long ago and today. Send a secret message using the Victorian language of flowers or the modern day language of emojis! Kids can also make a Victorian flower bookmark or an emoji stress ball.
Can you decode the hidden messages? Be a super sleuth for the day and try to deduce the meaning behind symbols used by people long ago and today. Send a secret message using the Victorian language of flowers or the modern day language of emojis! Kids can also make a Victorian flower bookmark or an emoji stress ball.
Can you decode the hidden messages? Be a super sleuth for the day and try to deduce the meaning behind symbols used by people long ago and today. Send a secret message using the Victorian language of flowers or the modern day language of emojis! Kids can also make a Victorian flower bookmark or an emoji stress ball.
Come to Free First Saturday at the CMCH and experience what life was like for children in colonial times. Kids and families can participate in a series of colonial games, compete against friends in "chore races," and make their own whirligig to take home!
Come to Free First Saturday at the CMCH and experience what life was like for children in colonial times. Kids and families can participate in a series of colonial games, compete against friends in "chore races," and make their own whirligig to take home!
Museums have all kinds of strange things in their collection. Explore some of CMCH’s oddities, curiosities, and wacky wonders! See if you can identify the purpose of some of our most unusual artifacts, and make your own wacky fashion accessory out of crazy duct tape!
Museums have all kinds of strange things in their collection. Explore some of CMCH’s oddities, curiosities, and wacky wonders! See if you can identify the purpose of some of our most unusual artifacts, and make your own wacky fashion accessory out of crazy duct tape!
Museums have all kinds of strange things in their collection. Explore some of CMCH’s oddities, curiosities, and wacky wonders! See if you can identify the purpose of some of our most unusual artifacts, and make your own wacky fashion accessory out of crazy duct tape!
Museums have all kinds of strange things in their collection. Explore some of CMCH’s oddities, curiosities, and wacky wonders! See if you can identify the purpose of some of our most unusual artifacts, and make your own wacky fashion accessory out of crazy duct tape!
What was a day like for a Connecticut soldier fighting during World War I? Find out at Family Adventure Day! Search for clues about soldiers’ experiences in our exhibit Facing War: Connecticut in World War I, take a break for (pretend) “coffee” and “donuts” in the Y.M.C.A hut, and design a patch to wear or a postcard to send home.
