Category: holiday

Craft: Fireworks Dance Wand for Lunar New Year

Craft: Fireworks Dance Wand for Lunar New Year Create a simple dance wand – then head to the dance floor and get your groove on! Happy Lunar New Year everyone! Supplies Assets instructions | pdf | copy & edit in Canva

Sally Battle

March 22, 2025

anti-bias activities, cost, easy, experiential, holiday, minimal, some cost, staff time
Explore + Discover Together: Celebrate with Candles

Explore + Discover Together: Celebrate with Candles Participants discover many ways that people around the world use light in various holiday celebrations, then create a decorative candle craft. Full Program Description Explore holidays from various cultures that use candles as part of the celebrations. Then create a festive and unique set of candles. “Tall, I…

Sally Battle

March 22, 2025

anti-bias activities, arts + crafts, cost, holiday, moderate staff time, scavenger hunt, staff time, stem, substantial cost
Scavenger Hunt: Lunar New Year

Scavenger Hunt: Lunar New Year Around the World In this self-directed scavenger hunt, participants locate hidden signs that feature children celebrating Lunar New Year around the world. As each piece is found, participants identify the child’s face and place a matching sticker on the answer sheet, a world map. Supplies Directions Assets scavenger hunt (this…

Sally Battle

March 22, 2025

anti-bias activities, cost, diy activities, easy, experiential, holiday, minimal, scavenger hunt, self-other overlap, some cost, staff time
Family Engineering Rubberband Cars

Family Engineering: Rubberband Cars Participants use the engineering design process to create rubberband-powered cars. Then, they learn about little-known Black inventors who helped make our roads and vehicles safer and are invited to imagine and create an invention to help improve car or road safety! Full Program Description Brainstorm, design, build, and test structures to…

Sally Battle

March 22, 2025

anti-bias activities, best for 4+, Black History Month, cost, minimal cost, moderate staff time, recycled materials, staff time, stem
Family Engineering Earthquake Challenge

Family Engineering: Earthquake Challenge In this hands-on program, participants experiment to create structures that can withstand earthquake-mimicking shaking. Full Program Description Brainstorm, design, build, and test structures to solve problems and help make the world a better place – just like real engineers! How do architects make buildings that can withstand earthquakes? The Instrumental Seismic…

Sally Battle

March 22, 2025

anti-bias activities, best for 4+, cost, easy, Hispanic Heritage Month, minimal cost, recycled materials, some staff time, staff time, stem
Creation Station: Something Beautiful

Creation Station: Something Beautiful Participants learn Full Program Description Craft and create with us! We’ll provide an idea and supplies then you create your own masterpiece. “I wanted something beautiful that you could sit down and look at. And then, the paintings change you.” Alma Thomas In this session, we’ll explore the colorful art of expressionist…

Sally Battle

March 22, 2025

anti-bias activities, arts + crafts, Black History Month, cost, easy, holiday, minimal, some cost, staff time

Hispanic Heritage Month, Indigenous Peoples Month, recycling
Family Maker Workshop: Indigenous Ingenuity

Family Maker Workshop: Indigenous Ingenuity Often, STEM teachings and projects focus on Western inventors – but Indigenous peoples have been inventing problem-solving tools since time immemorial. For example, did you know that even hundreds of years ago, Aztec peoples used hollow bird bones to deliver medicines into the human body – just like syringes created…

Sally Battle

March 22, 2025

anti-bias activities, arts + crafts, cost, Indigenous People’s Day, minimal, National Native American Heritage Month, some cost, staff time, stem
Family Engineering Wildlife Crossing

Family Engineering: Wildlife Crossing In this hands-on program, participants learn about traditional Incan bridge-building, wildlife crossings from around the world, and experiment to create their own bridges for toy animals. Full Program Description Brainstorm, design, build, and test structures to solve problems and help make the world a better place – just like real engineers! For…

Sally Battle

March 22, 2025

anti-bias activities, best for 3+, cost, easy, Hispanic Heritage Month, holiday, Indigenous People’s Day, minimal, minimal cost, National Native American Heritage Month, recycled materials, staff time, stem
Creation Station: Vibrant shape collages

Creation Station: Vibrant shape collages Create colorful collages inspired by the work of artist Reginald Laurent. Because this program was held in honor of Juneteenth, we invited kids to use their artistic freedom to create something that shows that everyone is equal. Full Program Description Craft and create with us! We’ll provide an idea and…

Sally Battle

March 22, 2025

anti-bias activities, arts + crafts, best for 2+, cost, easy, Juneteenth, minimal, minimal cost, staff time
Creation Station: Hummingbirds

Creation Station: Hummingbirds! Celebrate the beauty of the Caribbean Islands with this cute and simple hummingbird and hibiscus flower craft. Full Program Description Craft and create with us! We’ll provide an idea and supplies then you create your own masterpiece. In this session, celebrate Caribbean American Heritage Month by making a craft based on one of…

Sally Battle

March 22, 2025

age group, anti-bias activities, arts + crafts, best for 2+, best for 3+, best for 4+, best for 5+, Caribbean American Heritage Month, cost, easy, holiday, some cost, some staff time, staff time

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As always, we recommend pre-reading this book before reading it to your children or group.

In this story, Milo and his sister travel by subway train to visit someone special. Along the way, Milo imagines where other people on the train are headed.

Towards the end of the book, it is revealed that Milo’s mother is incarcerated and that Milo and his sister are on their way to visiting her.

In our workshop, we chose to end the story before Milo’s destination was revealed. We were meeting over Zoom, which made conversations difficult, and we felt that we would not be able to give a conversation about incarceration the attention and time it deserved.

We emailed parents and caregivers to let them know why we did not choose to read the whole story and encouraged them to finish the book on their own. We also encourage parents and caregivers to watch the entire fascinating video from illustrator Christian Robinson.

Be sure to check out the Penguin Random House Teacher’s Guide (a free downloadable pdf) with ideas for talking about this topic with children plus tons of other great material.