Earth Rocks!

Discover why Earth rocks through live animal encounters, hands-on STEM experiments, and eco-adventures all spring break long! 

Meet insects up close, make art inspired by nature, create music from recycled materials, and build Earth-friendly inventions. 

SCHEDULE

Pachamama Musical Performance

🕒 10:30 am – 11:00 am & 12:45 pm – 1:15 pm

Musician Flor Bromley will be performing selections from her album “Pachamama,” a bilingual (English and Spanish) collection of songs inspired by Mother Earth. It’s a perfect tool for teaching children about taking care of nature and learning about how nature takes care of us.

Plant Dyes

🕒 11:00 am – 11:30 am & 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Explore the different ways we can use plants to make art with textile designer, artist, and educator Nelise Charles. Participants will get to learn how to bundle dye with natural materials like hibiscus, marigolds, onion skins and more. 

Painting with Fruits

🕒 11:45 pm – 12:45 pm & 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Beet roots, turmeric stems and marigold petals have been used for thousands of years to create dye for clothing, paint, ink and more. Join our friends at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to design your own one-of-a-kind fan with beet, turmeric, and matcha ‘paint’, then pot up your very own lavender flower to take home and care for!

Community Earth Cloth

🕒 10:15 am – 12:15 pm, 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Visit the ColorLab Art Studio and make a dynamic collage inspired by the glittering tapestries of artist El Anatsui. Create your own Earth Cloth using muslin, paper, and foil. You’ll take home your artwork, or contribute it to our Community Earth Cloth, and learn the artistic skill of making a collage with recycled materials.

Be Like Bamboo

🕒 10:30 am – 1:00 pm, 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Visit BCM’s STEM Makerspace and learn how engineers take inspiration from bamboo to design buildings that can withstand earthquakes. Build your own skyscraper using popsicle sticks, straws, and air-dry clay, then test its stability and strength with our earthquake simulator.