Crafts

Create and decorate a pre-made paper puppet and then present a performance using our new puppet theater. Entering grades 1 and up. Sign up online at the Children's Room website.

Do you love Madeline, Miss Clavel, and Pepito? Then come for stories, songs, a craft, and some French treats. Ages 4 and up.

Free-flow learning at Joppa Flats is fun for the whole family. There's simple science fun with coloring pages and toys for ages 2 to 6; science experiments and group challenges for ages 7 and up; and outdoor exploration, seasonal live animals, and scheduled family presentations for everyone. Fly by for an hour or stay all day for family time that suits your schedule. There's something different to see and do with every visit!  This Week we'll be focusing on the similiarities between sharks, rays and skates.

Family Fly-bys are free-flow learning activities and fun experimentation for the whole family. This week we'll be focusing on geology sciences with family presentations at 11am and 1pm. 

This parent/child program is designed for the creative, curious, and active preschooler. Each 90-minute session offers a structured series of activities including original songs, movement, dramatic play, hands-on science, and a thematic snack. When it's time to go home, you'll receive coloring pages, song lyrics, vocabulary, a fun fact sheet, and a suggested reading list via email.

This parent/child program is designed for the creative, curious, and active preschooler. Each 90-minute session offers a structured series of activities including original songs, movement, dramatic play, hands-on science, and a thematic snack. When it's time to go home, you'll receive coloring pages, song lyrics, vocabulary, a fun fact sheet, and a suggested reading list via email.

The goal of The Ould Towne Heritage Fair is to show a glimpse of how our ancestors may have lived, and inspire visitors to assist in the support to raise the urgently needed funds.  All proceeds from the Ould Towne Heritage Fair will be directed to the purchase price to acquire Newman Farm Meadow. 

Bats are wonderful animals to have around your home because they eat thousands of mosquitoes and other insects nightly and are fascinating to watch. We'll begin our evening with a brief slide show, and then participants will receive all the materials they need to build a bat box. As the sun begins to set, we'll take a walk to discuss placement and monitoring of bat boxes and use a bat detector to search for bats hunting in the early evening sky.

Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. It started in the 17th century AD or even earlier and has evolved into a modern art form. The goal of this art is to transform a flat sheet of material into a finished sculpture through folding and sculpting techniques, and as such the use of cuts or glue are not considered to be origami.

Joppa Flats Education Center is inviting the community to come and see what our Bird-a-thon, our annual fundraiser, is all about! This exciting and educational family event features LIVE BIRDS OF PREY, great games about bird migration, and lots of activities about owls, shorebirds, songbirds, and waterfowl! Make a donation of $25 or more and your family (up to 4 people) get in for FREE! Make an online donation by visiting Lisa Hutchings’ First Giving donation page HERE! Help us reach our goal of $20,000 and show your support to Joppa Flats!