Backpack Explorers - Rockin’ Art!

Our Museum frequently becomes a classroom without walls. That is the case today through Saturday, when ages 3 and 4 will engage their senses learning about rocks and creating art with their parents. They will don special backpacks and go outside to explore strange and beautiful rocks.

This is just one way that the Museum inspires even our earliest learners to become good stewards of High Desert nature and culture.Children embark on their sensory-filled learning journeys by donning backpacks filled with owl egg replicas, real otter fur, Native American tools, clothing and other real and replicated artifacts. They visit science, art and body movement stations at areas throughout the Museum related to a monthly theme about High Desert animals and nature.

“This program is developmentally appropriate because it provides free-choice learning for young children, and gives them the opportunity to be creative through art and science – to touch real things like raptor feathers and skulls,” said Linda Rhine, the Museum’s curator of education programs. “For all ages, especially for young children, play is a really an important factor, and Backpack Explorers gives children the opportunity to play while learning about nature, science, culture or themselves.”

9:30 a.m. April 15, 16; 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on April 17 $20 per child, $15 for each additional child, plus admission for accompanying adult. Museum members: $15 per child, $10 for each additional sibling. Reserve your spot: 541-382-4754 ext. 329

Sponsored by: US Bank