A ducky time at Please Touch

Children can meet Splash, the Ride the Ducks mascot, and walk on a duck vehicle Saturday at the Please Touch Museum.

Ride the Ducks, an amphibious sightseeing tour, will bring vehicles to the museum from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Children will learn about a unique form of transportation that travels on land and sea.

Ride the Ducks is participating in the museum's special two-month celebration in July and August called Planes, Trains & Automobiles. The event highlights the theme of transportation throughout the museum's gallery floor. During these months, kids can enjoy daily activities in the museum's Elaine Wideman-Vaughn Program Room such as painting with vehicles, paint a vehicle, zip line vehicles, Kid K'Nex, Play Dough, toddler blocks, Tonka trucks, and construction blocks. August activities include building a rocket, map making, license-plate rubbings, and more.

Dodge Caravan Peanut Butter and Jams presents the Australian based "kindie-rock" group, the Mudcakes, at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at World Cafe Live.

The critically acclaimed band consisting of Australian singer-songwriter Sherry Rich and her Boston-born partner, Rich Plant, will perform its original children's songs. The duo, who have released their new album, Cave Baby, moved from Nashville to Melbourne, Australia, where they began to make music for children that has an organic sound. Their first self-released album, Songs for Little Monkeys, was among 2004's top children's CDs.

Children can enjoy an evening of magic and movies Saturday at Lindenwold Park as part of the Family Variety Series.

Beginning at 7 p.m., magician and illusionist Tom Yurasits will entertain with his illusions and tricks. At 8:45 p.m., the family can enjoy the movie Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. Families should bring lawn chairs or a blanket to enjoy the show.