Zoom, zoom! Team GCM member, Chris, is going to show you how to make your own rubber band car using materials from around the house! When you’re finished making your car and testing its need for speed, learn about the different parts of a car using our Word...
Team GCM member, Melissa, and her two kiddos are showing you how to make your own volcano eruption right at home! Once you’re finished, print out our V is For Volcano activity sheet to cut, color, and assemble another eruption! Materials: Plastic Volcano...
Team GCM member, Pam, is reading Eric Carle’s From Head to Toe right from her backyard! Once you’ve got your animal wiggles out, enjoy a craft project of learning to collage just like Eric Carle! Materials: Scrap paper (packing paper, newspaper, old cards,...
Team GCM member, Gift, has the coolest pet! Today she’s talking all about her blue-tongue skink lizard named Smaug! While you learn about Smaug, create your own lizard with our Activity Sheet! Using the letter L as the body, color, and cut the other pieces to...
Do you like art? Maybe you have a favorite painting, drawing, or sculpture? Do you also like to dress up at home or in GCM’s Twinkle Star Theatre? This activity combines art with dressing up! Directions: 1. Think about your favorite work of art. Do you have a...
Team GCM member, Bill, AKA Professor William Von Mylickson, is sharing his expertise on giraffes! Learn about this extremely tall animal friend while you use your imagination to draw and color the other half of the giraffe. But wait, there’s more! Team GCM...
Chris from Team GCM shows you how to make non-stick slime using only 2 ingredients at home! This DIY is simple, quick, and makes slime that is fun and mess-free! Ingredients: Corn starch and dish soap Materials: A bowl and measuring spoons Directions: Start out by...
Don’t you love it when a magical moment of learning and discovery happens by surprise? Today, my girls and I stopped to watch some butterflies, but soon realized we were witnessing an incredible display of the butterfly life cycle! We spotted a caterpillar...
Maggie of Team GCM loves doing puzzles when she’s at home! Watch this time-lapse of Maggie completing her favorite 1000-piece color hue puzzle as you complete our Make Your Own Puzzle activity sheet! Click the image to download and share your kiddo’s...
Team GCM Member, Sara, got artsy with her twin kiddos and made homemade paint using flour and other simple ingredients from their pantry! This art activity requires supplies and ingredients you can find right in your kitchen and only takes about 30 minutes! After...
In my home, we spent today celebrating color and creativity! We read one of our all-time favorite books, Swatch: The Girl Who Loved Color by Julia Denos. I hope you enjoy this story as much as we do! Then, we got messy decorating t-shirts. For the t-shirt project, we...
Can you imagine and draw what this friend is dreaming? This is a perfect right-before-bed activity for your kiddos to do to wind down! Pair it with a storytime read by you or one of these storytime videos: Sweet Dreams Jack Jack | The Goodnight Train | Sleepyheads |...
Right on man, let’s tie-dye! Team GCM Member, Ryan, was scouring Amazon for some fun activity packs to do with her kiddos while at home, and she stumbled upon an all-in-1 tie-dye kit! She hit the purchase button as soon as you could say “tie-dye” and it was delivered...
Ready to make a Rube Goldberg machine at home? Here are some ideas to challenge your kiddo to use their imagination and invent using supplies you already have at home! Storytimes about engineering, inventing, and persevering: Mr. Ferris and His Wheel The Girl with a...
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from GCM! Our Team GCM member, Bridgette, is going to be showing you how to make your own leprechaun trap right from home! Once you’ve got your trap made and set up for leprechaun catching, enjoy a virtual storytime of How to...
Do you love pi as much was we do? The number of course! This year, we got our good friend, Albert Einstein to tell us his favorite 3.14 ways to celebrate the number pi! Three – Pi-ku Become a mathematical poet and make your own pi-ku! Cut out a pie shape...
Use your creativity to decorate a hat. Click the image to download, then share your kiddo’s creation and hashtag us at #GCMatHome. Team GCM Creator: Lauren
We’re all looking for answers during the new novel Coronavirus outbreak and so are our kiddos. It can be tricky to talk to kids about scary or difficult topics like this, especially when you don’t have all the answers. So where do you begin? Luckily,...
Watch as Team GCM Member, Essence, talks about atmospheric pressure while conducting an atmospheric pressure experiment in Rain or Shine in our Kidsport exhibit! Team GCM Creator: Essence This post is brought to you by
