A weekend packed with child's play
Winter is just about outta here, so take the opportunity to do a few indoor things with the kids before they grab their baseball gloves and you haul out the golf clubs. From flowers to fashion, from princesses to primeval predators, there's a lot to keep you indoors this weekend.
Winter is just about outta here, so take the opportunity to do a few indoor things with the kids before they grab their baseball gloves and you haul out the golf clubs. From flowers to fashion, from princesses to primeval predators, there's a lot to keep you indoors this weekend.
Take a little lump of clay. Go all Gumby at the Clay Studio in Northern Liberties. In collaboration with the Free Library's One Book, One Philadelphia program, the studio offers a two-hour course in stop-motion animation for parents and kids. Participants will read a section of the children's book Train Song by Diane Siebert and turn it into a short video after learning the basics of stop-motion - fashioning clay figures and photographing them in different poses.
Most videos will run 10 to 30 seconds, although some might go as long as a minute, said Josie Bockelman, the Clay Studio's director of education. Studio staffers will put them all together, she said, and probably add background sounds, then post them on YouTube. The classes are appropriate for children 4 to 12. Kids must be accompanied by an adult. Preregistration is required.
"Besides the replica, we have live snakes from our collection," said Carolyn Belardo, academy senior communications manager.