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Inventor's Month Children Activities at the Children's Museum of Houston

TRIAL AND ERROR: CELEBRATING INVENTOR’S MONTH
Take chances, get messy and make mistakes at the Children’s Museum of Houston!
Sponsored by Verizon
August 1—7 

Inventing is about taking chances and learning through trial and error.  Come celebrate some of the greatest inventors, such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and James Watt for their risk-taking chances which changed our world.  Put on your thinking hat and unleash your creative side in activities that will bring out the inventor in you. What great invention will you come up with?

SPECIAL EVENTS:
  • Blinky Bugs: LED Creatures. Build a creature that is truly unique! Use batteries and LEDs to make a creature whose eyes flash when its antenna moves in Inventors’ Workshop.
    Event Time: All day; check times on site.  
ON-GOING ACTIVITIES:
  • Inventor Match Game: Think you know your inventors well? See how many inventors you can match to their genius inventions over at Junktion.
  • Build Your Brain:  Stop by the Junktion to solve a few brainteasers that will help develop your creative skills.  After all, in order to be a great inventor you have to keep the creative juices flowing.
  • Rube Goldberg Invention: Design your own complicated invention to perform the simplest task in the spirit of the famous inventor Rube Goldberg at Junktion.
  • Invent-a-Color: Create your very own color by using primary and secondary colors, and then use your unique color to make a wonderful masterpiece in the Alexander Art Academy.

Would you like to invent year round?  Take part in activities where getting it wrong is sometimes right!  Become a member