Family Art Program: Flower Pounding

Do you love flowers? Do you wish you could keep the beauty of a flower all year long? Come experience the printing technique known as flower pounding. Using a hammer and fresh picked wild flowers, we will make gorgeous natural dye prints on fabric. We will supply a square piece of fabric for you to […]

Art & Theater Camp

Come experience the world of drama and visual arts and dive into the literature of Shel Silverstein. Build confidence, communication, collaboration, and creativity through this engaging camp. Learn about character development, set design, costume creation, poetry, mask and make-up, and theater improve with SUNY Potsdam Theater Faculty and NCCM arts educators. Grades 2 - 6 […]

Pre-K Program: Sensory Bottles

Providing opportunities for children to actively use their senses as they explore their world is crucial to brain development, so why not foster this growth here at the museum. Join us to create ‘sensory water bottles’ and let their sensory imagination take off.  

Family Art Program: Constellation Projector

Constellations: Explore the night sky, and the folklore that drew connections between the stars. Families will learn about different constellations, their stories, and then make their own constellations projector. Join our wonderful intern Grace for this innovative program.

Chemistry Lab Camp

Children will safely explore chemical reactions through hands-on experiments with NCCM science educators and SUNY Canton Chemistry Faculty.  Anyone interested in rockets, fireworks, volcanoes, and exploding gummy bears is encouraged to sign up! Grades 2 - 6 Click Here to Register

Family Program: 3D Pop Art

Have you heard of Pop Art? Come learn about the art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Visitors will print out a photo selfie and turn it into a three-dimensional Pop Art advertisement!

Family Science – Anemometers and Meteorology

Come learn about the techniques and technologies that meteorologists use to predict weather. Then yo can make an anemometer, the technology scientists use to measure wind speed.

Family Art: Guatemalan Worry Dolls

Do you worry? Do your worries keep you up at night? Come learn about Guatemalan Worry Dolls and make your own to take home with you. Place your doll under your pillow at night and the doll will do all the worrying for you so you can sleep peacefully!