Da Vinci Flying Machines

Check out the flying machines that we built!












































they don't fly yet.. but soon!

Saturday June 29th 2010

Saturday was the first sunny day in a very long time!!

Little Learner's class were studying the shape of "things" by wrapping them up in yarn!
We learned about Cristo and Jean Claude and we got to work!














Our fingers sure got a workout!! After trying a few different objects, we decided to start wrapping the teacher.. unfortunatly she couldn't reach the camera without getting untied!


The older kids made their own lego masks!

Activities for June 5th

Today in the Little Learner's Program we made Space Shuttles!



The body was made from old plastic bottles, the wings were made with newspapers, then we covered the whole thing in plaster bandage!



All of us started with the same materials, but all our Shuttles look very different!





In the Afternoon the Older kids made soap using lego.
This was a complicated process but it was also very fun!
First, we created something out of lego, then we made an imprint in clay, then we poured liquid nitrogen to freeze the imprint. After that we poured in the soup
and once it hardened we popped the soap out!









Now the Creative kids Museum smells like Vanilla, Rasberry and Mango!!

mmmm!

Saturday Activities For May 29

May 29th was a great day!

Check out these awesome clay boats that we made!




Some of us got creative when designing our sails!





Some of us got creative with all sorts of different materials:






In the afternoon the older kids made casts of their lego creations:



it was difficult but fun! (we put mom's to work!)



Getting the lego out was the REALLY hard part!



Our City ended up looking Great!!



We got this amazing idea from the great people at Tape Sculpture

This is also similar to the work of Artist Mark Jenkins check out his work
here

Riverside's Cyborg movie!

LEGO at CKM - MAY 15th

Psssst! Here's an exclusive insider's view of the LEGO exhibit.
These are some images from another science center that hosted it!!

LEGO Exhibit opens at Creative Kids Museum on May 15th.

Transformers Exhibit in the Artist's Space

The ASA has developed a travelling exhibiton entitled Transformers from the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Seventeen mized media art works reference transformative acts and mysterious interventions that defy easy explanation. Shape shifting, magical inferences and surreal episodes populate teh chosen art works - occasionally twisting familiar subjects into the unfamiliar and back again. Modest in scale and not really like Hollywood's blockbuster film, this exhibition provides provocative and playful perspectives on nature, civilization, biology and other topical issues of our time.

Feautred Artists include:
Cindy Baker
Sean Caulfield
Chris Cran
Steven Dixon
Karen Dugas
Bart Habermiller
Nelson Henricks
William Laing
Luanne Martineau
Tomoyo Ihaya
Jacques Rioux
Wade Stout
John Swindler
Ray Van Nex
Tadeusz Warszinski
John Will
and
Richard Yates