Bullock Summer Vacation
June 20 to August 12, 2016
Plan your family's summer vacation at the Bullock for weekly story times, workshops, and explorations. From diving into stories to learning new ways to tell your family's history, the Bullock is your family's go-to place this summer.
Drop-in with the whole family any Monday, Wednesday, or Friday from June 20 - August 12. Programs are free for Members or with museum admission and run from 11 a.m.- 1 p.m.
- Storytime Mondays: Listen to an old favorite or discover a new story. Dive into stories with accompanying activities designed especially for ages two through six.
- Wednesday Workshops: Create your own artifact or work of art to remember your museum visit. This more in-depth drop-in program is great for families with kids ages six and up.
- Discovery Fridays: Engage your senses by exploring artifacts and objects connected to our history. Drop-in with the whole family and experience something new!
Week of June 20 - 24
June 20
Storytime Mondays: Budding Butterflies: Listen to a story about a creepy-crawly bug that transforms into a Monarch butterfly and makes her way to Mexico with millions of other butterflies. Learn about the butterfly's life cycle and create a butterfly of your own.
June 22
Wednesday Workshops: Grow Local: Join the Sustainable Food Center for a Grow Local gardening workshop. Interested in growing your own healthy food at home or at a school? Come and learn about the top Five Tips for a successful food garden in Central Texas. Children will plant a seed in a pot to take home. This 45 minute workshop will be offered at 11 a.m. and noon. Limited capacity. Tickets to reserve your spot are available at the ticket counter first come, first served on day of event starting at 10am.
June 24
Discovery Friday: The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre®: Join the Sustainable Food Center for The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre® cooking demonstration. Health experts agree that eating more fruits and veggies keeps us healthy. This cooking demo features nutrition tips and a Thai Cucumber Salad recipe. This refreshing salad is a great snack or side dish to help you eat more veggies this summer. This 45 minute workshop will be offered at 11 a.m. and noon in the Whole Foods Market Tasting Kitchen in Our Global Kitchen exhibition.
Week of June 27 - July 1
June 27
Storytime Mondays: All About Me: It's all about you at storytime! Hear a story about a special friend and then share what makes you special. Kids will practice telling stories all about themselves.
June 29
Wednesday Workshops: Odes to Objects from the Past: Odes to Objects from the Past: Tour the galleries with Badgerdog writer and teaching artist Amanda North. We’ll explore and discuss artifacts from different time periods in Texas history. We’ll then explore the ode—a poetic form of celebration—and write our own odes to objects from Texas’s past. Limited capacity. Tickets to reserve your spot are available at the ticket counter first come, first served on day of event starting at 10am. Workshop will last 90+minutes. Families are encouraged to bring snacks. Please consider potential allergies of others in workshop when choosing your snacks.
July 1
Discovery Friday: Cooking with the Whole Family: Come create your own fruit and vegetable skewers with Common Threads! After you’ve made your skewer you can try the Healthier Ranch Dip made with herbs and low-fat yogurt.
Week of July 4 - 8
July 4
Storytime Mondays: HOLIDAY, no program
July 6
Wednesday Workshops: Stand Up Against Intolerance: Take part in the Bullock Museum’s Butterfly Project, a large scale installation comprised of thousands of uniquely beautiful butterflies. In this workshop families will explore the poem that inspired the project, “The Butterfly” written in 1942 by a child in a concentration camp. Taking inspiration from the poem, families will identify how to take a stand against intolerance and create a butterfly to represent endurance, change, hope and life.
July 8
Discovery Friday: Finding Fossils: Test your skills as a paleontologist and excavate fossils with the Junior Ranger from Waco Mammoth National Monument.
Week of July 11 - 15
July 11
Storytime Mondays: Making Music: Join us for a musical storytime and make an instrument to take home and play.
July 13
Wednesday Workshops: Create Food Art: Which fruit or vegetable best describes you? Share your thoughts with the Common Threads Chef while conducting an edible science experiment that results in your very own fruit slushy. The vibrant colors of the fruit used will be a work of art! Limited capacity. Tickets to reserve your spot are available at the ticket counter first come, first served on day of event starting at 10am.
July 15
Discovery Friday: Playing with Food: Join Smudge Studios in the Whole Foods Market Tasting Kitchen to sculpt and taste foods from around the world.
Week of July 18 - 22
July 18
Storytime Mondays: Tasty Tale: Listen to a yummy story about eating good food then try some tasty treats in the Whole Foods Market Tasting Kitchen.
July 20
Wednesday Workshops: Bringing History to Life: Tour the galleries with Badgerdog writer and teaching artist Amanda North. We’ll explore and discuss a selection of artifacts on display and try to imagine what certain people and objects in history witnessed, felt, and fought for (even inanimate objects like a cowboy spur or a prospector’s hat)! We’ll then write “persona” pieces that bring these objects from history to life. Limited capacity. Tickets to reserve your spot are available at the ticket counter first come, first served on day of event starting at 10am. Workshop will last approximately 45 minutes.. Families are encouraged to bring snacks. Please consider potential allergies of others in workshop when choosing your snacks.
July 22
Discovery Friday: Exciting Artifacts: Experience the museum's artifacts in a whole new way with new interactive activities and games that are sure to excite kids of all ages.
Week of July 25 - 29
July 25
Storytime Mondays: Texas Riddles: Explore Texas through a fun-filled rhyming storytime fit for the youngest Texans.
July 27
Wednesday Workshops: Screen Printing Texas Symbols: Join Smudge Studios and learn how to screen print. Make something for the Bullock and something to keep.
July 29
Discovery Friday: The Butterfly Project: Take part in the Bullock Museum’s Butterfly Project by creating a butterfly to represent endurance, change, hope and life. Your butterfly will be added to the Museum's large scale installation comprised of thousands of uniquely beautiful butterflies.
Week of August 1 - 5
August 1
Storytime Mondays: Texas Animals: Enjoy a story all about Texas animals then play a game to match animal footprints with the Texas animal who made them.
August 3
Wednesday Workshops: Create a Fossil: Make your own fossil and learn all about animals that lived in Texas long ago from the Junior Ranger at Waco Mammoth National Monument.
August 5
Discovery Friday: Native Mammals: Test your knowledge of Texas native mammals by matching footprints to the animals that made them.
Week of August 8 - 12
August 8
Storytime Mondays: Summer Memories: What's your favorite thing about summer? Come and share with friends and make something to help you remember favorite things about summer.
August 10
Wednesday Workshops: Nature Writing: Tour the Bullock Museum’s special exhibit “Journey into Big Bend” with Badgerdog writer and teaching artist Amanda North. We’ll view and discuss photographs of the state’s most expansive park and use these as inspiration for our own nature writing. Limited capacity. Tickets to reserve your spot are available at the ticket counter first come, first served on day of event starting at 10am. Workshops will start at 11am and noon.
August 12
Discovery Friday: Exciting Artifacts: Experience the museum's artifacts in a whole new way with new interactive activities and games that are sure to excite kids of all ages.
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Our Global Kitchen education programs and kitchen sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
Journey Into Big Bend education programs sponsored by: Big Bend Chamber of Commerce; Forever Resorts, LLC; Gage Hotel; and Visit Big Bend.
Support for the Bullock Museum's exhibitions and education programs provided by the Texas State History Museum Foundation.