Día de los Muertos WonderWeek Sponsored by Gilbert Andrew Garcia/Garcia Hamilton & Associates, L.P.

Funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance

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Children's Museum Houston will be bustling with color and life during this WonderWeek! Celebrate the popular Mexican holiday, Día de los Muertos, with worldly activities that's sure to entertain. You'll be crafting all sorts of Latin American projects, and the best part is you can take a little bit of this holiday home with you!

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ON-GOING ACTIVITIES:

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Papel Picado Banners

Celebrate Dia De Los Muertos by creating a papel picado banner!

Location: Art Academy

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Monarch Butterfly Puppet

The monarch migration to Mexico coincides with Diade los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Celebrate these beautiful butterflies with your own movable puppet!

Location: Junktion

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Nicho Boxes

Learn how to make a DIY shadowbox that can be used as part of an ofrenda(altar) to remember and honor the deceased in celebration of the Day of the Dead.

Location: Junktion

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Sugar Skull Mask

Design your own sugar skull mask in honor of Dia de los Muertos.

Location: Junktion

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OTHER ACTIVITIES:

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A Field Guide to Houston Insects

Get outside and go adventuring! Can you find all 5 of these insects in your neighborhood?

Location: EcoStation

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Monster Math Race

Location: Math Cart

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Ghost Rings!

Learn about the power of air using air cannons to move objects, investigate and a demonstration about toroidal vortexes! Spooky ghost rings around the Science Station

Location: Science Station

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Slime Time: Zombie Brains! & Q-Tip Skeleton

Learn about how chemistry is used to bond molecules and polymer chains together to create zombie brain slime!

Learn about how the skeletal system is made up of many different bones that allow us to stand up straight and move around.

Location: Power Science Lab

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“It’s Alive!” Hydraulic Monsters

Invent other-worldly monsters from your own imagination, then bring them to life!

Location: Inventor's Workshop & Maker Annex

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Laser-Cut Halloween Masks

Design and cut your own Halloween masks!

Location: Inventor's Workshop & Maker Annex

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Robotics Station: LEGO Scorpion

Visitors use the LEGO Spike Prime robotics materials to build and code a working LEGO piano.

Location: Inventor's Workshop & Maker Annex