Every program... is designed for up to 25 participants, unless other-wise noted. Programs last 45 minutes, unless other-wise noted. Participants make a take-home project in every session, and almost every program brings out items or artifacts from our collection to touch. Programs can run mornings, afternoons, or evenings throughout the week. Parents are strongly encouraged to stay for programs for ages 3-5.

Are you far away? Mileage charges may apply.

Greater than 15 miles distance: $1.25 per mile. Charge is one-way only.

No charge for tabled events at community festivals & fairs. Invite us to your family events!

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DIG AWAY

THIS SUMMER!

Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum P.O. Box 25

279 Main Street Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724

Phone 631.367.3418 Fax 631.692.7037

www.cshwhalingmuseum.org

Pricing Mon-Thurs

Friday Sat & Sun

1 program $200 each $210 each $225 each

2 of the same

programs in one day

$185 each $195 each $210 each

4 programs

(2 of the same on 1 day)

$175 each $185 each $200 each

Bookings… 631.367.3418 ext. 16 or ext. 11 Book a Program, Check or Confirm Dates

ext. 17 Bookings & Special Arrangements Nomi Dayan, Interim Director ndayan@cshwhalingmuseum.org

SEA LONG ISLAND our programs

We use innovative, creative, and hands-on

programs modeled on science inquiry to

connect children with the history, art,

science, conservation, culture of our

oceans and maritime heritage.

In 2012,

our outreach

programs

reached a

record 3500

individuals

all over the

Island!

our mission

Since 1942, the Whaling Museum

has been devoted to collecting, preserving,

and exhibiting objects and documents

exploring people’s relationship

with the ocean in innovative ways.

Only 6% of museums are accredited, the highest national standard

for best practices. We’re one of them!

Leah Master, Lead Educator LMaster@cshwhalingmuseum.org Nicole Kuffo, Educator nkuffo@cshwhalingmuseum.org Gina Van Bell, Educator gvanbell@cshwhalingmuseum.org

Summer programs Dirt & Geology

Soil Soiree P|E Get busy looking at what earth is made of with magnifying glasses and meet some

earthworms, pillbugs, and other neighbors that call the soil home. Create a dirt painting like the Korgoho people of Africa,

make edible soil out of crushed cookies, and plant a seed in your own decorated pot

to watch grow this summer. Planting a Rainbow P | E | T Did you know you can make paints from your garden? Try your hand at crushing leaves and colorful vegetables with mortars and pestles for their natural tints, and learn how to use their pigments to paint a masterpiece. Sand is Grand E What’s underground on Long Island? Sand! Become an arenologist and dive into a sandy world with hands-on experiments, and see other types of sand from around the world. Go home with your own colorful sand art! Viva La Volcano! E Get ready to explore one of the most amazing forces of nature – Volcanoes! Discover how underwater volcanoes create new islands in the ocean, touch rock samples of hardened lava, and stand back as you create your own spewing volcano. Sink in room required. Oceans Rock! E Have a blast exploring earth’s natural crystals and minerals – including an ocean crystal that you eat every day (salt!). Find out how beautiful crystals form, touch some minerals, and put on your goggles to crack open your own real geode to take home! 3rd-6th grade, please. Light Rocks E | T Learn about how the world’s first light bulb was made of rocks! Touch a Native American oil lamp made from rock, see Whale Oil and find out how and why people used it, and use clay to fashion your own ancient-style oil-lamp to take home.

Culture & Stories Bullroarer Bash OR Top-Secret Sound E Find out about the world of secret communication that people and animals use! Discover an underground telephone that people have used, from the Inuit to Aboriginals– the bullroarer. Find out how these were made out of whale baleen, meet a hissing animal, learn about whale songs, and design your own whizzing bullroarer. Stars & Stories E Throughout history, people have depended on the stars for direction at night, from sailors at sea to the slave underground. Learn how to recognize star constellations, see a meteorite dust sample, and create your own constellation-viewer. Gross & Gorgeous or Beauty and the Mud E | T Get down and dirty learning about how bones, blubber, and ambergris turned into the most expensive cosmetics, tools and jewelry in the past. Discover how whaling was a part of style and fashion, and learn about some of the strange things that went into favorite luxury items. Create your own perfume scent and homemade lip balm. Gold, Gold, Gold! E Find out about how gold played an important part in America’s history, and why many sailors deserted whaling ships during the Gold Rush. Try your hand at panning for gold, touch Fool’s Gold, excavate your own antique-style gold charm out of rock, and use gold paint to design a box to hold your own treasures! Dig Through a Museum’s Cellar Or Tales & Treasure A The Museum’s collection holds 6,000 artifacts accumulated over the past 70 years. Join us as we bring out our artifacts for you to examine up close, including scrimshaw, and learn more about Long Island’s maritime past and people. Carve your own scrimshaw-style box to keep.

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T= Tweens & TeensT= Tweens & TeensT= Tweens & Teens

Activities in a given program are adapted to specialized age groups. They’re all fun!

Beneath the Waves Under the Sea Party P, E Join us beneath the surface to celebrate and explore incredible and amazing ocean animals! Meet local live crabs and touch all sorts of amazing ocean items from real whale teeth to shark jaws to giant walrus tusks. Take the ocean home with you as you use clay to design

your own sparkly ocean waterglobe. Sharkfest E Did you know there are 400 types of sharks?

See and touch shark jaws and shark teeth, including a tooth from a prehistoric

Megalodon shark! Learn some fun shark facts, touch and identify shark teeth up close,

and make a real shark-tooth necklace or keychain. Shipwreck in a Bottle E Become a maritime archeologist and explore some of the great and mysterious shipwrecks resting on the ocean floor. Create a classic sailor’s craft with a special twist – your own shipwreck-in-a-bottle! Wild Whales ’N Diving dolphins P | E Celebrate all things whale, the planet’s largest creature! Touch a dolphin jaw, see whale teeth, and identify giant whale bones, and have fun with hands-on science experiments that explore how whales live. Preschool: Create your own dolphin friend to take home. Elementary: Carve your own scrimshaw keepsakes. Recyclers Of the Sea E Even in the ocean, there are animals that reuse! Discover bottom-feeding sea creatures and the unusual ways they keep the ocean clean. Learn about how you can recycle and keep your habitat clean, too! Meet and touch some great recyclers and decorate your own ocean-inspired garden with recycled materials to grow at home. Earthy Jewelry T Throughout history, jewelry and trade objects have been crafted from the ocean using clay, shells, and pearls. Make your own beads out of recycled and natural materials, and create your own nautical-inspired jewelry or keychains with shells and clay. 1 hr.

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Fossils, Caves, Bones & mummies

FossilFest E Calling all budding paleontologists! Touch amazing fossils from prehistoric oceans, including trilobites and a mosasaur tooth, and find out what it’s like to use rocks to study the past. Strap on your goggles and excavate your own real fossil to keep. Fossils Alive! E Do you know there are some creatures older than dinosaurs that never went extinct? Learn about living fossils, including sharks! Decorate a habitat for your own real eggs to hatch into tiny, ancient shrimp from the Triassic Age! Parents, we’ll supply a little habitat and food for your tiny, easy pet to grow in (lifespan is 1-2 months). Limit 20 children. Cave Explorers E Get ready to enter the dark, mysterious world of caves and caverns, which oceans and rivers carve out of rock. Touch a mineral stalactite, meet a leggy animal that lives in caves, explore hidden crystals, and create your own crystal solution to grow crystals at home. Maritime Mummies E Be an Egyptologist and find out how Ancient Egyptians used old ship sails to wrap up buried mummies. Stamp hieroglyphics on real papyrus, color an Egyptian collar, find out why boats were found in ancient tombs, and excavate your own ‘antiquity’ out of rock to keep. Dig Into Bones E Calling all brave excavators! Touch bones from different animals, including whale bones, and get ready to unearth a skeleton out of an owl pellet, the remainder of an owl’s meal. Take your boney findings home!

Scrub That Dirt Rubber Ducky Party! or Moby Duck P Celebrate our favorite yellow bathtime friend! Read Eric Carle’s Ten Little Rubber Ducks, try out our fun rubber ducky craft stations, and don’t forget to design your own squeaky rubber duckie to keep!