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Take a Child Outside Week

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

We're celebrating with a week full of fun outdoor activities. Times differ each day. Sept 24, 10am - 11am Nature Textures: Explore Discovery Woods in search of natural items with different textures. Sept 25, 10am - 11am What's the Weather Wednesday: We'll be doing an activity that works with the weather, whether it's windy, sunny, […]

Included with Museum admission

Monsterbash 2019 at NARA Park

NARA Park Nara Park, 25 Ledge Rock Way, Acton, MA, United States

  Monsterbash is an annual event geared for elementary school aged children. Admission if $5 – cash only -  at the door, all ages.  Fun includes Black Light DJ Dance Party, Flashlight Candy Hunt, games and fun.  Costumes recommended but optional.  Outdoor event – rain cancels.

$5

Monsterbash 2019 at NARA Park

NARA Park Nara Park, 25 Ledge Rock Way, Acton, MA, United States

  Monsterbash is an annual event geared for elementary school aged children. Admission if $5 – cash only -  at the door, all ages.  Fun includes Black Light DJ Dance Party, Flashlight Candy Hunt, games and fun.  Costumes recommended but optional.  Outdoor event – rain cancels.

$5

Backyard and Beyond: Knife Skills with PrimiTim

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Knives have proven themselves to be the most useful tools in the woods. They are used to carve, slice, and cut our way through any task that is thrown at us. Being able to effectively and safely use a knife is a crucial survival skill, and a must-know for anyone who is passionate about adventuring […]

Included with Museum admission

Celebrate National Take a Hike Day: Walking Sticks

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Hop out onto the Great Hill conservation land adjacent to Discovery Woods to find the perfect walking stick, then bring it back to Discovery Woods and decorate it. We’ll provide the art supplies, you bring your imagination! Once you’ve created the perfect walking stick, take it on a test drive on the conservation land or […]

Included with Museum admission

Backyard and Beyond: Winter Tracking with PrimiTim

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Signs of animals are all around us, if we know where to look! Join primitive-skills expert, Tim “PrimiTim” Swanson, to learn and practice the ancient skill of tracking. He’ll take us on an adventure looking for signs of the animals that live all around us. Depending on weather, this program may involve a walk in […]

$14.50

Backyard and Beyond: Winter Survival Workshop with PrimiTim

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

This class offers tools and techniques you can use if you ever find yourself cold, hungry, and alone in the wilderness. Our expert survivalist, Tim “PrimiTim” Swanson, will cover basic shelter building, wild edibles, water gathering, fire starting, tracking, and ways to get rescued by using natural and manufactured survival tools! This program may involve […]

$15.50

Backyard and Beyond: Winter Scavenger Hunt

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Discovery Woods is full of natural materials to excite your sense of sight and touch. Look closely and experiment with some of the most interesting textures found in Discovery Woods. Explore this wintery-wonderland… can you find something frosty or frozen, fuzzy, scratchy, smooth, and rough? You never know what you might discover! This program is […]

$15.50

Make a Mess: Paint Like Seurat

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Georges Seurat invented a special style of painting using lots of little dots, called pointillism. Explore some of Seurat’s masterpieces and then try your hand at creating you own work of art inspired by pointillism. The Make a Mess program series introduces STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) concepts through sensory-based hands-on experiences, imagination, […]

Backyard and Beyond: Nature Textures

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Can you duplicate nature’s textures?  You can if you create a frottage!  Explore Discovery Woods as we search for and collect natural items with different textures, then create a frottage (or rubbing) of your found treasure. Inclement weather may result in changes to the program or cancellation.

Fairyborough

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Welcome to Fairyborough – the little city with a big future! Design, build, and explore a mysterious forest environment of fairy houses, gnome homes, and sprite skyscrapers, constructed completely out of natural materials and creativity. This changing and evolving temporary space will be put together by staff and visitors over the course of 6 days. This […]

Mirror, Mirror, What do You See?

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Have you ever wondered how you can see yourself in a mirror? Join us as we play with different kinds of reflections and experiment by using mirrors to create symmetry, refract light, and expand your field of vision.