Monsters Mashing Into Bettendorf’s Family Museum
Monsters are invading the Family Museum! Enjoy favorite activities like pumpkin painting, glow room activities, PLUS new activities: Mini Monster Mittens, FrankenScience, a monster zoo, Monsters Inc. inspired performances by the Family Museum Dance Company, and much more! Sunday, October 20, 2019, 12:00 – 5:00 pm. $9 for general admission; Family Museum members are free.
First Floor Activities:
• Haunted Hopscotch (Outside-Front): Make your feet match the monster’s tracks by jumping, twisting, and hopping your way into the Museum.
• Floating Monsters (Great Hall) See for yourself…you’ll be amazed as we send air-filled monsters floating up to the Museum’s rainbow ceiling!
• Monster Mitten Pals (Great Hall) Decorate and stuff your own mini monster friend! Add eyes, crazy hair, and all sorts of other fun features. Take your little guy home to spook your friends!
• The Monster Petting Zoo (Bump): Our monsters are shy so we keep them protected in dark boxes, but they love to be petted! See if you tell which monster is which!
• Glow Games (Dance A): Lights out! Enjoy some games that GLOW, including Candy Corn Ring Toss, Monster Feeding, and more!
In the Exhibits:
• Frankenstein’s Lab Spooky Room (ThinkShop): Get in the spooky spirit by taking a stroll in the laboratory of Dr. Frankenstein…where monsters are brought to life!
• Monster Protection Rockets (Gallery by bridges): Craft your own straw rocket and take aim at the monsters under the bed!
• Spooky! Hands-On! SCIENCE! (Traveling Gallery): Experiment with Magnet Monsters, try your hand at Eyeball Engineering, and more.
Second Floor Activities:
• Monster Snot (Science Room): Don’t be too grossed out! Mix up your own sample of monster snot…it even glows!
• Mini Pumpkins (Art Room): Get creative and make a pumpkin masterpiece to take home.
• Family Photo Station (2nd Floor Hall): Get your camera ready! Make a silly face and pose with our monster picture frame!
Performances:
• Family Museum Dance Company (Dance B&C): 1:00 & 3:00: Enjoy a Monsters Inc.-inspired dance performance by the Family Museum Dance Company!
•FrankenScience: (Dance B&C): 2:00 & 4:00: Catch this electrifying science show that will spark, glow, and light up your wildest, monster-iest dreams!
For more information please call (563) 344-4106, or visit www.familymuseum.org. Scarecrow Shenanigans is sponsored by The Family Credit Union.
