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Our interactive weekly family program is designed to bring our exhibits and collections to life for children of all ages! Come discover recent and not-so-recent history through hands-on and activity-based projects. |
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OCT-DEC 2010
in conjunction with the exhibit
02 Old Time First Aid with a Modern Twist Surgery on a pool table? Mustard plasters for a common cold? Come learn about what medicine was like in early Lethbridge and some modern first aid techniques with First Aid Instructor Pauline Johnston.
09 Paper Plane Races Explore local aviation history with our special treasure hunt and learn to fold paper airplanes built for speed, distance, and fancy tricks! Compete to win a prize!
16 History Detectives Become a history detective and search for clues in the Galt Hospital building and exhibit. Win a prize!
23 Photo paper X-rays X-ray common objects using light-sensitive photo paper and make a piece of x-ray art.
30 Strange &
Funny Alberta Ghost Stories True and not so true stories with puppets,
costumes and lots of audience participation!
06 Plaster Casts of Kids Hands Learn how to make a mould of your hand and then a plaster cast to preserve a piece of your own history.
13 Sight Insight Try your hand at different games and other activities from CNIB as you experience simulated vision impairment such as blindness, cataracts, and tunnel vision.
20 Photo Bingo Make your own bingo card using photos from Galt Hospital History, play the game, and win a prize.
27 Create your own superhero Try your hand at storytelling through cartooning as you learn how to create your own cartoon or comic book!
04 Holiday Pop-Up Cards Use archival photos and scrapbooking techniques to make a greeting card.
11 Multi-Cultural
Holiday Ornaments Learn about how different cultures celebrate their
winter holidays while making traditional ornaments from around the world.
Also make potato stamped wrapping paper to wrap your gifts this winter!
FEB-MAY 2010
in conjunction with the exhibit
06 Old Fashioned Games* Play with games from our Education Collection.
13 Experience Blackfoot History and Culture* with Blanche Bruised Head in our Kainai Arbour.
20 NO PROGRAM [Museum Community Day]
27 Handmade Treasure
Boxes Up-cycle coloured paper and boxes to make gorgeous decoupage
storage boxes for your treasures.
* these programs focus on the stories told in our Permanent Exhibit gallery during the installation of the special exhibit Treasures & Curiosities.
06 Artifact Bingo Come play artifact bingo and win a prize!
13 WARNING! Extreme History! A Blast from the Past! Join Jacqueline Guest - author of 16 novels - to discover Canada's forgotten people, the Métis, and how they shaped our history. Laughing and learning are guaranteed as we recreate the past in an unforgettable interactive session involving facts and artifacts.
20 Photo Cards Learn to make handmade cards featuring treasured photos. Bring your own photo, or use one from our Archives.
27 Make Your Own Memory Game Learn about treasurers and curiosities from around the world as you make a memory game to take home and play.
03 NO PROGRAM [Eggstravaganza]
10 Building Blocks Decorate your own old-fashioned wooden building blocks.
17 Hands on Alberta Timeline Enjoy fun interactive activities and you explore the treasures and curiosities of our southwestern Alberta history exhibit.
24 Earth Day Photo Frame Decorate a picture frame using treasures from our coulees, then learn to search the Archives and select a photo for your frame.
01 Treasures
from the NationalFilm Board Watch
NFB classics including The Hockey Sweater, The Log Drivers Waltz,
and The Cat Came Back.
08 Story Time Celebrate
Historic Lethbridge Festival with stories from the 1940s.
15 Lethbridge History Album
Start your own album of Lethbridge history using a collection of photos,
articles and more from our Archives.
22 Go Fly a Kite Make
and decorate your own origami kite, with the Textile
Surface Design Guild, and fly it outside (if the weather is nice).
29 Waking the Garden Start native plant seeds for your own home, and explore the treasures and curiosities of our native plants garden at the Galt.
in conjunction with
02 Build a Model Dinosaur Skeleton Make a dinosaur skeleton, then take the pattern home to make dinos of any size.
09 Fossil Casting See and touch real dinosaur fossils and make your own fossil cast.
16 Jr. Palaeontologist Dig for fossils and learn to map a dig site using real bones and artifacts in this program from Devil’s Coulee Heritage Museum.
23 Dinosaurs in the Movies Discover how dinosaurs in movies and our scientific understanding of them evolved together in this movie history journey. a Royal Tyrrell Museum video conference program
30 The Reptile Connection Meet some reptiles from Petland in this hands-on presentation and learn about the reptile relationship to dinosaurs.
