Calling artists of all ages! Express yourself with a wide variety of artistic materials and methods including paint, sculpture, printing and collage. Artists will explore shapes, colors, forms and patterns while learning about different modes of creative expression. Join us for a new art project every week.
Take a deeper dive into learning with fun and engaging STEAM discoveries driven by our exhibit galleries and seasonal experiences. Explorers will use their investigation skills to gain a new outlook on the world around them. There are new discoveries to be made every week.
We are growing a garden at Stepping Stones! Join us in our Edible Garden and explore the ins and outs of cultivation. If the weather is less than desirable for gardening, the program can be found in the Hub. This is a seasonal program.
Get your blood pumping and your body moving! Join us on a fun fitness adventure to help keep your body energized and healthy.
Pick up an instrument and strike up the band with musical explorations that make you groove, move and sing.
Meet a friendly shelter dog assisting in a unique story time that helps children build social-emotional skills and become caring, calm and confident citizens.
Work together to create unique puppets and explore how to bring them to life. You will be introduced to the world of puppetry and create your own puppets to put on a show at home with friends and family.
Join us as we explore one of the many interests of Professor James—from dinosaurs, reptiles, mammals and more to medieval machinery such as catapults and ballistae. We will travel the world, we will travel time and we will follow wherever our curiosity leads us.
The newest and coziest area at Stepping Stones is the ELLI+ Book Nook, a dedicated space for children and their caregivers to discover the pleasures of reading and storytelling. Families can settle in for a quiet moment of storytelling or enjoy a variety of literacy–centered programs throughout the museum. Through these specially–curated and crafted programs, projects and engagements, Book Nook staff and volunteers help build caregiver knowledge about reading development so they can support reading at home.
Through a combination of drawing, writing and interactive activities, children will learn the fundamental elements of storytelling—characters, setting and plot—and then bring their ideas to life.
Bring stories to life with this engaging and interactive storytelling program designed to deepen children’s comprehension and retelling skills. Through group book readings and hands-on story reenactments, this program transforms stories from the page into imaginative, play-based experiences.
Join us for engaging read-alouds and hands-on activities that build early reading skills. Families learn playful strategies to support phonics, vocabulary and comprehension, laying the foundation for lifelong literacy.
Open daily: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Mathews Park
303 West Avenue
Norwalk, Connecticut 06850
203 899 0606
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