Museum At Home
Our online projects were featured in USA Today!
We love introducing you to all kinds of activities in the Museum and MuseumLab, and love it even more when you keep the activities and creativity going at home.
Kid makers, please work with a parent or caregiver on every project and always be very careful when using tools of any kind.
Share what you're making at home on our social media channels! Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @pghkids / #pghkids / @museumlabpgh / #museumlabpgh
Window Art Gallery
We want to share your artistic talents with the neighboorhood! We'll be displaying our visitors' beautiful art in our Window Gallery in October and November. If you have art you would like to share, just put it in our drop box on the Museum's front porch.
We are not able to return art donations, so please drop off pieces that you don't mind parting with.
Let's Try...
This new series provides instructions for creative activities you can try at home. We post new projects often, so keep checking back!
Kid makers, please work with a parent or caregiver on every project and always be very careful when using tools of any kind. Now let's try...
Making Boats That Float
Sarah shows us how we can make boats out of recycled materials!
See all of our Let's Try activities here.
Let's Try... Birthday Edition
Many of us are celebrating birthdays in ways that are pretty different, and the challenge is bringing out our creative spirit! The newest addition to the Children's Museum campus, MuseumLab, celebrated its first birthday on April 27, 2020 and the occasion inspired us to offer these fun projects to help you celebrate at home.
Recycled Candles
Make a new candle from leftover candle scraps.
See all of our Birthday activities here.
Let's Go Outside
This new series explores the many beautiful plants and flowers in our own backyards!
Pumpkin Life Cycle
It's pumpkin season! We're excited to kick off a series of videos about these famous fruits. Today, Let's Go Outside with Laura to learn about the life cycle of a pumpkin.
See all of our Let's Go Outside activities here.
Neighborhood Singalong
We believe the voices of children and families can help us connect to each other, and the world - and what better way to start than a “Neighborhood Singalong” of the iconic song, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor,” from our friend and mentor, Fred Rogers?
Your response was both amazing and heartwarming. We hope it brightens your day as much as it has ours!
Want more music? Enjoy our Museum Spotify Playlist
New Ways to Say "Hi!"
Many of you shared the ways that you say "hi" in these days of social distancing. Thank you for sharing your creativity, humor and love in your posts!
The Makeshop Show
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, we created The Makeshop Show to introduce our (then) new MAKESHOP exhibit and making activities to our audience. We created online content for the show to show off some really cool projects and makers through videos, blog posts, contests and interviews. Please enjoy these throwback videos from 2011 - 2014 - because creative DIY projects never get old!