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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.
 

Science Is Everywhere: Balancing Act — Center Of Gravity

At-Home Activity: Write Your Own Book

At-Home Activity: Make a Fingerprint Art Bookmark

Storytime: I Would Tuck You In

Bilingual Storytime: Llama Llama Red Pajama/La Llama Llama Roja Pijama

At-Home Activity: Spring Sprouts

At-Home Activity: Shadow Drawing

At-Home Activity: Pressed Flower Art

At-Home Activity: Animal Detectives

At-Home Activity: Build a Nest

At-Home Activity: Incognito Ink

At-Home Activity: Crazy Croquet

At-Home Activity: Write a Literary Nonsense Poem

At-Home Activity: Skele-fun with Skeletons

At-Home Activity: Send a Hand

At-Home Activity: Treasure Maps

At-Home Activity: Island Maps

At-Home Activity: Bubble Domes

At-Home Activity: How to Find Geometry in Nature

At-Home Activity: Create a Recipe with Potter the Otter!

At-Home Activity: Spa Water

At-Home Activity: Catch a Rainbow Racer Fish with Potter the Otter

At-Home Activity: Egg to Go

At-Home Activity: Shadow Shapes

At-Home Activity: Soap Bubbles

At-Home Activity: Impressionist Bubbles

At-Home Activity: Ice Exploration

Video: How Recycling Works!

Video: The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

Video: Your Super Skeleton!

Video: 10 Year-Old Makes Face Masks!

Video: Know Your Globe

Video: Why Do Honeybees Love Hexagons?

Video: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Video: The Importance of Using Soap!

Video: 5 Giant Ice Age Animals!

Parent Resource: Strawberries, Water, and Curiosity

Parent Resource: The Benefits of a Colorful Life

Parent Resource: The Mental Benefits of Exercise

Parent Resource: Family Workouts to Do at Home

Parent Resource: How to Raise a Reader

Parent Resource: 5 Ways to Love Reading Again

Parent Resource: How Trees Secretly Talk to Each Other in the Forest

Parent Resource: Enjoying Spring from Quarantine

Parent Resource: Artist Spotlight: Zach Pine

Parent Resource: 10 Nature Activities to Help Get Your Family Through the Coronavirus Pandemic

Parent Resource: Children and the Arts

Parent Resource: Inspiring Your Child’s Imagination

Parent Resource: Civics, Civility, and Citizenry!

Parent Resource: 14 Little Ways to Encourage Kindness