Are you Hmong at heart? All this month, join us as we learn more about Hmong
culture on our international travels, practice your pottery skills with November’s
artist-in-residence and check out new exhibits! www.ChildrensMuseumEC.com
See back for program descriptions and registration info.
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
1
10:30a Hmong Rice
Pounder Making
11:30a-Super Small
Science (ages 1-5)
3:30p Hmong Rice
Pounder Making
6
7
2:30p Hmong Rice
Pounder Making
Museum
CLOSED
13
14
2:30p Create a Silver
Hmong Necklace
9
10:30a Create a Silver
Hmong Necklace
11:30a-Super Small
Science (ages 1-5)
3:30p Create a Silver
Hmong Necklace
21
2:30p Clay Studio:
Rice Cake Tubs
Museum
CLOSED
27
15
16
9:30-11a Mommy
Mingle: Birds n’ Bees
10:30a + 3:30p Clay
Rice Cake Tubs
11:30a-Super Small
Science (ages 1-5)
22
23
10:30a Make a
Hmong Money Belt
11:30a-Super Small
Science (ages 1-5)
3:30p Make a Hmong
Money Belt
10:30a Make a
Hmong Money Belt
11:30a-Super Small
Science (ages 1-5)
3:30p Make a Hmong
Money Belt
29
30
28
3
All Day-Paint Your
Own Face Station
10:30a Hmong Rice
Pounder Making
3:30p Hmong Rice
Pounder Making
8
10:30a Clay Studio:
Rice Cake Tubs
11:30a-Super Small
Science (ages 1-5)
3:30p Clay Studio:
Rice Cake Tubs
Museum
CLOSED
20
10:30a Hmong Rice
Pounder Making
11:30a-Super Small
Science (ages 1-5)
3:30p Hmong Rice
Pounder Making
10:30a Create a Silver
Hmong Necklace
11:30a-Super Small
Science (ages 1-5)
3:30p Create a Silver
Hmong Necklace
a
Friday
2
10
All Day-Paint Your
Own Face Station
10:30a ...Necklaces
3:30p ...Necklaces
5:30p ...Necklaces
17
10:30a Clay Studio:
Rice Cake Tubs
All Day-Paint Your
Own Face Station
3:30p + 5:30p Clay
Rice Cake Tubs
24
Museum
CLOSED
Happy
Thanksgiving!
Saturday
4
5
11:30a Parachute
Playtime (ages 1-5)
10:30a + 3:30p
Make Hmong Rice
Pounder
7:30-10:30p After
Dark: 90s Party! 21+
10:30a + 3:30p Make
Hmong Rice Pounder
10:30a-4:30p Artist
in-Residence
11:30a–Pottery Class*
2:00p –Pottery Class*
11
12
10:30a Create Silver
Hmong Necklace
11:30a Parachute
Playtime (ages 1-5)
3:30p Create a
Silver Hmong
Necklace
10:30a + 3:30p Silver
Hmong Necklaces
10:30a-4:30p Artist
in-Residence
11:30a–Pottery Class*
2:00p –Pottery Class*
10:30a Clay Studio:
Rice Cake Tubs
11:30a Parachute
Playtime (ages 1-5)
3:30p Clay Studio:
Rice Cake Tubs
10:30a + 3:30p Clay
Rice Cake Tubs
10:30a-4:30p Artist
in-Residence
11:30a–Pottery Class*
2:00p –Pottery Class*
18
25
10:30a Make a
Hmong Money Belt
11:30a Parachute
Playtime (ages 1-5)
3:30p Make a
Hmong Money Belt
19
26
10:30a + 3:30p Make
Hmong Money Belt
10:30a-4:30p Artist
in-Residence
11:30a–Pottery Class*
2:00p –Pottery Class*
2:30p Make a Hmong
Money Belt
Museum
CLOSED
*Each pottery class is limited to 15 students;
must sign-up at the Front Desk the day of class.
Thanks to our November Program Sponsor!
Programs are free with Museum admission or
membership unless otherwise indicated.
October Artist-in-Residence: Ann Wrzosek-Manor
Ann makes art because it makes her heart sing! And her heart
wants to sing all day long. Her favorite media are clay and
photography, though she also enjoys painting, mosaic, earth art
and others, too! Ann teaches K-5 art at Southview Elementary in
Chippewa Falls during the school year. She teaches clay,
children’s art and various other evening classes in the summer at
her home studio (meadowsongstudios.com) with her sidekick
Koko the umbrella cockatoo. Ann is now working on some new
pottery ideas for an art show in Minneapolis next summer!
Pottery Class!
Join November’s Artist-in-Residence, Ann Wrzosek-Manor, and
sculpt your own holiday ornament out of clay. She’ll even take it
to the kiln and fire it for you! This program is FREE, but each
session is limited to the first 15 students. Sign-up and tickets will
be available at the Museum’s front desk.
Mommy Mingle: Birds n’ the Bees
Enjoy free coffee & breakfast and meet other mommies the
3rd Wednesday of every month. Bring little ones for
awesome playtime or take advantage of free childcare!
Daddies, nannies and caretakers welcome, too. This month,
visit with therapist April Becker to find out exactly how to
have “the talk” with your kids at the right times and in ageappropriate ways. Free with membership or admission.
After Dark: 90s Party!
Hey grown-ups, are you going postal over political
campaigns? Get ready to dust off the super Nintendo, load
up on pokeballs and dig out those Lisa Frank folders for a
totally tubular throwback! Chill out max and relax all cool at
the Children’s Museum of Eau Claire for this grown-ups-only
event featuring beer and wine, pizza bar, Nintendo
tournament, battle of the boy bands, 90s trivia, live science
shows and more! Tickets are $25 per person or 2 for $45.
Photo IDs will be checked at the door.
Buy tickets at www.ChildrensMuseumEC.com.
Super Small Science
Clay Studio: Rice Cake Tubs
Nyob Zoo (Neeyaw zhong) friends! To prepare for the New Year
celebration, Hmong families gather together to make rice cakes, a
colorful dessert! It takes two people to pound and pound the rice
until it forms the cakes. During this program, kids will make tiny
rice cake tubs, and two tiny rice hammers so that you are ready for
the New Year’s celebration!
Create a Silver Hmong Necklace!
Nyob Zoo (Neeyaw zhong) friends! The New Year is the only
celebration in the Hmong culture and is a time for friends and
family to gather together. (P.S. The Hmong New Year will be
celebrated this weekend at the Indoor Sports Center where
anyone is welcome) Everyone dresses up, many in traditional
Hmong clothing. Join us to make one part of that clothing— a
special silver necklace worn by males and females of all ages!
Hmong Rice Pounder Making
Nyob Zoo (Neeyaw zhong) friends! Are you Hmong at heart? The
Hmong people that live in the US today originally lived as farmers
in the mountains of Laos and grew lots of rice! During this
program, kids can make their own rice pounder, a special tool that
pounded rice to take off the outside coat and turn it into flour!
Make a Hmong Money Belt
Nyob Zoo (Neeyaw zhong) friends! Our Hmong friends are known
for their amazing embroidery skills! From story cloths to
traditional clothing pieces, their work is colorful and dazzling! One
piece of traditional clothing is called a money belt because there
are coins hanging from the bottom. During this program, kids can
create a design and add silver coins for their own money belt!
Attention all preschool scientists! Do you like to mix and
squish, stir and pour, and be amazed? If so, then don’t miss
out on Super Small Science, a hands-on science program
with our very own Dr. Labcoat! This program is FREE for kids
ages 1-5 and grown-ups.
Paint-Your-Own Face Station
Open every Thursday, visit this station to transform
yourselves into creatures, animals, characters and more!
Parachute Playtime
Kids ages 1-5 and grown-ups, come play with our GIANT
parachute every Friday! Move, groove, sing and dance as we
play games, get our hearts pumping and have a blast!