Books Alive with Bruce the Bear
2025-11-16 10:00 - 10:30 UTC | Children’s Museum, 6 Washington Street, Dover, NH, 03820, United States
Bruce the bear, that grumpy cook and mother to geese and mice, will be visiting the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire to greet young fans and help promote the love of reading! Books Alive seeks to make reading a regular family experience. Museum educators will be doing a story time while a friendly (but still grumpy) costumed Bruce visits! Bruce will be available for hugs, high-paws, and photos at 10am during the morning play session (9am–noon) on Sunday. The story time lasts approximately 30 minutes—please time your arrival accordingly to guarantee a visit with Bruce. Want to meet Bruce? Simply reserve spots in the museum’s morning or afternoon play session that correspond to the date of the Books Alive program you want to join—it’s included with museum admission and, as always, free for Members!
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Toddler Tinker Time: Puppets
2025-11-18 10:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for a weekly program that emphasizes the importance of tinkering! Tinkering helps little ones develop fine motor skills, increases problem solving abilities, and is an open invitation to foster peer relationships! What is tinkering?! Tinkering can range from taking something apart and putting it back together to making an open-ended sculpture, to playing with “loose parts” and special science tools. We will have different activities every week and some old favorites will pop up again and again.
Want to join in? Simply reserve spots in the museum’s morning play session that correspond to the date of the Toddler Tinker Time you want to join – it’s included with museum admission, and as always, free for Members!
Price = Included with Admission
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Baby Storytime
2025-11-19 09:30 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
Babies (ages 6 months–2 years) and their caregivers are welcome to join Baby Storytime at the Children’s Museum of NH! This weekly program features songs, rhymes, movement ideas, and books for babies and their caregivers and introduces important pre-literacy skills along the way! This drop-in program and informal playgroup is a great way to socialize with other babies and caregivers. Want to join in? Simply reserve spots in the museum’s morning play session that correspond to the date of the Baby Storytime you want to join—it’s included with museum admission and, as always, free for Members!
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Wacky Art Wednesdays
2025-11-19 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-11-19 14:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Join us at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire every Wednesday at either 10:30am or 2:30pm to do a wacky and wonderful art project. Children are invited to join our educators to make a wacky and wonderful art project to take home! We’ll take inspiration from art in our own Gallery 6, from famous artists, or from the world around us. Want to join in? Simply reserve spots in the museum’s play session that correspond to the date of the Wacky Art Wednesday you want to join!
Included with museum admission, and as always, free for Members!
STEAM programs are sponsored by Granite State Development Corporation, Breezeline, Eversource, Sprague, and Novocure.
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Artist Visit: Elise Morissette
2025-11-22 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Visit the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire today during the morning play session, 9am–Noon, and meet one of our Gallery 6 artists, Elise Morissette, at 10:30am. Elise will guide visitors as they try some Suminagashi—Floating Ink Art! Try this relaxing style of printmaking where water carries ink in swirls and colorful rings. No experience necessary and perfect for all ages. The fun is included with museum admission and free for Members. Elise’s work is currently on view in the museum’s Gallery 6 “Stroll the Rainbow” art exhibition.

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