This kid’s activity is part of the St. Catharines Museum’s Museum Week, is a global festival celebrating cultural institutions across the online world. In celebration of #ChildrensEyesMW day, we’ve created this scavenger hunt to spark children’s curiosity in their family history.
Museum at Home: Visiting Cards
With businesses, restaurants, and public places like museums reopening to the public, families are now often asked to give their […]
Museum From Home – Learning to Cook – Mac and Cheese the student staple!
This week’s Museum From Home blog post is inspired by two photos from the St. Catharines Standard Collection from 1937 and 1940, relating to back-to-school and new curriculum for students at the time.
Museum at Home: Bedroom Archaeology Part III – Curate Your Exhibition
For the final activity of the Bedroom Archaeology series, it’s time for you to curate your own exhibition!
Museum at Home: Fruit Crisps, Crumbles and Cobblers
This week’s Museum at Home blog post is inspired by a photo from the St. Catharines Standard Collection of a bountiful peach harvest at the Taylor Farm in 1939. This photo has inspired us to make peach crisp and to consider baked fruit desserts!
Museum at Home: Bedroom Archaeology Part II – Catalogue Your Findings
Museum at Home is a weekly blog series offering fun and educational hands-on activities for children to do at home […]
Museum at Home: Let’s Make Shortbread!
A couple of weeks ago, Museum at Home had you making butter. What a better way to use that homemade butter than to make cookies!!
Museum at Home: Bedroom Archaeology Part I – The Inventory
The STUFF in our bedrooms can tell us a lot about ourselves, the stories that make us who we are, and what is special to us. And a lot of this stuff can be found in our bedrooms.
Over the course of three Museum at Home activities published throughout the summer,we’ll give you the tools to become an archaeologist, and study the contents of your bedroom.
Museum at Home: Let’s Make Butter!
Making butter would have been a regular part of the week for many people living in St. Catharines, but luckily, it’s pretty easy and very straightforward.
Museum at Home: Family History for Kids!
Every family has a story. What’s yours? In Family History for Kids!, you can become a family history detective and discover your family history and roots!
Below, you’ll find a few tools you can use to become family history detectives, and gather stories of your family’s history.