Take part in fun STEAM projects for kids and families throughout the city this April through June! Explore these events now.
Featured spring sites and programs include:
- Albany Park: "Nature Explorers" will create fragrant herb gardens, build fairy garden terrariums and make explosive seed bombs to spread wildflower magic, plus dive into awesome water projects!
- Bucktown-Wicker Park: Kids (and parents) are invited to take outdoor walking “observation” field trips, including sketching and discussing what they see along the way.
- Budlong Woods: On "Family Science Sundays," kids will explore bending light with kaleidoscope rainbows, create mini terrariums and grow plants as they learn about the joys of gardening.
- Edgewater: In this "Science is Fun" series, make rain clouds in jars, participate in bulb growing and put together sun-changing bracelets!
- Gage Park: Through the "EnGage in STEAM" series, kids will create slime, lava lamps and experiment with cars and robots, plus observe butterflies!
- Garfield Ridge : In "The Science of Color and Light" series, kids can explore color-changing slime and foam, plus create rainbow shadows!
- Jefferson Park: In their "Nature STEAM" series, kids will make seed bombs, support hydroponic bulb growing, create terrariums and bird nests, plus sand slime!
- Lincoln Park: "Mix-It Up Mondays" will include lava lamps, marshmallow and toothpick towers, marble tumbling, magnets, dinosaur and balloon science fun!
- Little Village: Get ready for exciting challenges at LEGO® Club! Participants will be challenged to build the tallest towers or most imaginative worlds. Plus, kids will be invited to join a glow party with glow-in-the dark beading and fun buoyancy experiments with Peeps on rafts!
- Logan Square: Join the kid-inspired “Science Club” to build amazing space models, make a Periodic Table Scavenger Hunt and explore awesome chemical reactions.
- Manning: In the “Create Club,” participants can engineer and race motorized Bristle Bots, design ultimate fidget spinners and unleash their creativity making awesome Cricut Creations!
- McKinley Park:In this “Drop-In Nature STEM” series, kids can create unique art made with sun print materials, conduct live caterpillar observations and learn about the life cycle! Emerging engineers can also unleash their creativity at LEGO® Club by building catapults, race cars and marble mazes!
- North Pulaski: Come check out the new early childhood STEAM exploration stations! From robot mouse coding and digging for dinosaurs to building with blocks and splashing around with boats, children and parents are bound to have a blast exploring and learning together.
- Oriole Park: “Math Matters” is back this spring with stunning protractor art masterpieces, pi skyline art, superolateral designs and cool dot grid patterns.
- Roden: “Saturday STEM Challenges” include exploring the mysteries of sound waves, motion in action, electrical circuits, gravitational pull and ferromagnetic iron fillings, plus ooey-gooey slime!
- Sherman Park: This new ScienceConnections series includes watching caterpillars transform into butterflies, engineering toothpick and marshmallow towers, herb gardening and sidewalk art patterns!
- Uptown: Learn about the science of growing. Kids can help prepare the garden soil and plant seeds that will grow into beautiful, tasty and nutritious vegetables!
- Vodak-East Side: Introducing an exciting series of field trips this spring! In collaboration with Southeast Environmental Task Force (SETS), Chicago Ornithological Society (COS), the Chicago Park District and Cook County Forest Preserve, kids and parents are invited to a special day of storytelling and nature exploration at the Marian Byrnes nature area; Big Marsh and Eggers Grove. Plus, there will be a Calumet Beach “clean up” event.
- West Pullman: Dive into amazing experiments this spring. Create stretch and pretty slime, build wiggle bots and explore shapes and patterns with math fidget cubes.
- West Town: In this “Curious Kids Club,” kids build scribble bots that can draw, grow bulbs without soil (a hydroponic bulb growing experiment), plus create color-changing bead bracelets that react to the sun’s rays!
- Woodson Regional : Check out this “Nature and Garden Club” series in which participants will help plan for the new season’s garden; make ollas; create a butterfly gardening and more!
ScienceConnections programs are made possible in part by S&C Electric Company, Norfolk Southern Corporation, and other generous donors to the Chicago Public Library Foundation.