Waterfront Capers for Kids
Ahoy Mates! Join the Museum’s Shipyard interpreters and explore the history of North Vancouver’s Waterfront! Identify ships in the harbour, learn to communicate in semaphore code and design a scrimshaw carving. Learn about all the famous ships that were built and sailed here and of the lives of those who have lived and worked by the sea. This is an outdoor program, so please dress for the weather.
Dates: July 18, 19 or 20
Times: 10:00-11:30am 5-8yr olds
1:00-2:30pm 9-12yr olds
Cost: $5 per child
Location: Shipyard Plaza, across from the Pinnacle Hotel.
The Forest and the City
Discover nature in your own backyard! Listen to tales of mountaineering adventures in North Vancouver’s forests and get active like hikers before you. Run a 1920s style relay-race and find out what it was like to climb a mountain before Gortex was invented! Learn all about old-fashioned plant collecting techniques and design your very own plant press to take home. Discover how a community’s passion for the outdoors has helped shape the city we live in today.
Dates: July 25, 26 or 27
Times: 10:00-11:30am 5-8yr olds
1:00-2:30pm 9-12yr olds
Cost: $5 per child
Location: North Vancouver Museum, 209 West 4th Street
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Re-Design
This brand new summer program explores environmentalism through art! Exploring topics like recycling, children ages 5-8 will learn to express their ideas through art by creating pieces like bottle cap magnets and juice-box journals. Taking these topics one step further, children ages 9-12 will look at ideas related to communication and e-waste. Participants will be challenged to work with wasted electronics like CDs and computer keyboards to create new functional pieces of recycled art.
Dates: August 8, 9, or 10, August 15, 16 or 17
Times: 10:00-11:30am 5-8yr olds
1:00-2:30pm 9-12yr olds
Cost: $5 per child
Location: North Vancouver Museum, 209 West 4th Street
Urban Scrapbook
The history of Lower Lonsdale is richer than you think! In this program, children will get out of the house and participate in a fun, three day exploration of their City. Touring heritage buildings, children will plot their creative observations of our City’s built heritage. They will learn to look closely at the structures that tell their community’s story. A shipbuilder’s shop, a train station, a bank and an old-time theatre will inspire a multi-media map featuring photographs, drawings, stories, and models. Students will produce an Urban Scrapbook and skits of their adventures!
Dates: August 22-24 (Wed-Fri) or August 29-31 (Wed-Fri)
Times: 10:00-12:00pm 5-8yr olds
1:00-3:00pm 9-12yr olds
Cost: $15.00 per child for all 3 Days
Location: North Vancouver Museum, 209 West 4th Street