Archaeology Adventures

North Country Children's Museum 10 Raymond Street, Potsdam, NY, United States

Come learn about archaeology in this hands-on class! We'll explore a mock excavation pit with our archeology tool kits and examine artifacts from ceramics to bones. Let’s start digging and uncover the past to solve the ancient mysteries of our world!

Mini Med School Science

North Country Children's Museum 10 Raymond Street, Potsdam, NY, United States

The human body is an amazing machine! In this class, kids will explore human biology and health through games and weekly science activities. They'll learn about how to keep the human body healthy and avoid germs, illness, and disease. Start your med school training at NCCM!

Total Eclipse Program: Anti-gravity galaxy in a bottle

North Country Children's Museum 10 Raymond Street, Potsdam, NY, United States

Saturday Science Programs from 11AM - 12PM at the Children's Museum. March 9: Make your own balloon rocket March 16: The cup drop experiment March 23: Anti-gravity galaxy in a bottle March 30: Make a launch a rocket April 6: Pop a balloon using the sun's energy    

Family Art Program: Stuffed Animal Sculptures

In 1987, artist Mike Kelly began making orb-like dandling sculptures made from thrifted stuffed animals. The sculptures also had a scent radiating from them which helped engage more human senses and link smell with memory. The work evokes nostalgia. Come create your own stuffed animal Orb after learning about Mike Kelly's work.

Toddler Music

North Country Children's Museum 10 Raymond Street, Potsdam, NY, United States

Toddler Music is a mixed-age music and movement class for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their caregivers, that includes activities designed to promote musical learning across ages. Activities include singing and chanting, dancing, and finger plays, and playing children’s instruments, aka: making noise and jumping around. You don’t want your little one to miss out!

Kids in the Kitchen

North Country Children's Museum 10 Raymond Street, Potsdam, NY, United States

Join the fun with this after school cooking class with Chef O! Kids will follow fun and healthy recipes each week and share their afterschool snack with friends. Recipes will be sent home so kids can make snacks for the whole family. The class will culminate with students creating, making, sharing their own recipes! Come […]

Outdoor Science Explorers!

North Country Children's Museum 10 Raymond Street, Potsdam, NY, United States

Come explore the science of seasons in this outdoor-oriented, hands-on science class. Weather permitting, participants will learn in nature’s laboratory in the great outdoors! Science experiments both indoors and out will keep introducing kids to environmental science through fun, engaging experiments.

Big Bang Science

North Country Children's Museum 10 Raymond Street, Potsdam, NY, United States

In this class, preschoolers will explore geology, physics, and biology through age-appropriate, simple, hands-on experiments. Your little stargazers will reach out into the cosmos, put on a lab coat to mix fizzing chemicals, and plant the seeds of understanding in our natural world!

Make a Mess Art

North Country Children's Museum 10 Raymond Street, Potsdam, NY, United States

Kids will participate in a variety of messy art activities in this fun, sensory class. Come make a mess at the museum, so your house stays clean! We do suggest a change of clothes. Activities include a colorful foam car wash, slime paintings, kinetic sand sculptures, and other messy masterpieces.

Paint & Play

North Country Children's Museum 10 Raymond Street, Potsdam, NY, United States

Come explore all the fun and new ways to use paint! We'll try out various techniques and interesting approaches for using paint as a form of artistic expression. Mix it, pour it, blend it, spray it, in this fun art class!