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We know that right now you can’t visit the Purple Museum, but that doesn’t mean our mission of inspiring creativity, curiosity, and lifelong learning stops. Enjoy our many educational broadcasts and hands-on learning activities, along with insightful resources to help you navigate these uncertain times.
 

Discovery Time: Going on a Texture Hunt
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Bilingual Storytime: Bear on a Bike/Oso en Bicicleta
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Discovery Time: Acts of Kindness Jar
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Storytime: Be a King
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Discovery Time/Moldable Cloud Dough (In English and Vietnamese)
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Storytime: Ten on the Sled
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El Día de los Tres Reyes Magos / Three Kings Celebration
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Let's Get Creative! Create and Paint a Star
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Let's Get Creative! Three Kings Crowns
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Soap Bubble Experimentation
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Toddler Fun! Shadow Tracing (in English and Vietnamese)
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Make a Cornhusk Doll
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Let's Get Creative! Meet the Artist L.A. Kingsley
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Nature News: All About the Bees!
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Bilingual Storytime: Las Lechucitas / Owl Babies
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Storytime: Leaf Man
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Toddler Fun! Frozen Banana Bites (in English and Vietnamese)
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Bilingual Storytime: Oso polar, oso polar, ¿qué es ese ruido?/Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
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Let's Get Creative: Art That Moves!
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Storytime: Sheep In a Jeep
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Diwali: Festival of Lights
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Nature News Broadcast
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Bilingual Storytime: The House in the Night/La Casa en la Noche
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Goodbye Ichiro!
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Bilingual Storytime: My Skeleton Family/Mi Familia Calaca
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Toddler Fun! Window Finger Painting (In Vietnamese and English)
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Bilingual Storytime: ¡Perros! ¡Perros! / Dogs! Dogs!
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Let's Get Creative! Paint Away
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Storytime: How To Wash A Woolly Mammoth
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Bilingual Storytime ¿Cómo Aprenden Los Colores Los Dinosaurios? How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors?
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Let's Get Creative! Meet the Artist - Gabi Dedek
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Storytime: The Firetruck
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Toddler Fun! Gravity Painting (English and Vietnamese)
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Bilingual Storytime. No, David!
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Eco Explorers: Exploring Crop Diversity
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Toddler Fun! Baby Sign Language
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Storytime: I Am Enough
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Science Is Everywhere: Family Kaleidoscope - Reflected Light
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Let's Get Creative! Inside Outside
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Bilingual Storytime: Hello Di Hola
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Eco Explorers: Nature Meditation
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Toddler Fun! Squishy and Moldable Cloud Dough (in Vietnamese)
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Storytime: In My Heart
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Science Is Everywhere: Music & Feelings
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Let’s Get Creative! Color & Breathe
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Bilingual Storytime: My No No No Day
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Eco Explorers: Wolves Inspire Me
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Toddler Fun! Make a Dog Hat (In Vietnamese)
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Storytime: Bark, George By Jules Feiffer
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Let's Get Creative: Draw a Shelter Animal
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