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Giving Tuesday Comes Early This Year
We are starting to see more people setting up fundraising pages joining our Member's Team and Friends of the Museum Team. This fundraising will help us get reopened once we get the green light from the state and CDC that it is safe to do so.

Coincidentally, the folks over at Giving Tuesday, due to the pandemic, have decided to move Giving Tuesday from the first Tuesday in December to Tuesday, May 5th, this year. #GivingTuesdayNow

Give the photo a click and if you want to help support the museum, please set up your own fundraising page and/or make a donation. Anything you can do is greatly appreciated, even if it is just helping to spread the word.


Different Ways to Paint at Home
Painting allows children to explore color, process and outcomes. They can also use painting to express emotions and convey ideas.

Check out this video that we created with some "at home" activity ideas around different ways to paint!
Keep Those Letters Coming!
“We’re making a commitment to stay home because we’re All In for Illinois — for our neighbors and grandparents, our health care professionals and first responders, our grocery store workers and so many more. Staying in keeps us all safe.”
- Governor JB Pritzker
Kit the Kite has made the commitment to stay home because Kit is "All in for Illinois." The problem is that Kit is lonely, missing the friends that used to come and visit the museum. Kit knows that the friends will be back but Kit would like some more pen pals! Send Kit a letter and you will get one back from Kit! The address is in the photo above.
Here is a coloring sheet from our friends at Raising Cane's. You should be able to click on it and download it as a PDF file.