Dance Visions to perform on the LICM stage: Join Dance Visions as they present contemporary dance styles to LICM visitors. Celebrate the last lazy, hazy days of summer with Fun and Games at Long Island Children's Museum. Free your mind and play! This week visitors will have the chance to enjoy all kinds of exciting theater performances, learn more about life in Australia, create a work of art in the Jackson Pollack-style and explore what's outside in Our Backyard!

Program and Performance Schedule- August 11-17

Extended by Popular Demand: StarLab

Monday, August 11 - Sunday, August 17 at 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 p.m.

LICM offers you the chance to stargaze in the daytime! Take a tour of the stars in an inflatable planetarium - on loan from The American Museum of Natural History.

Age: 7 and up. Fee: $3 with museum admission. ($2 LICM members).

Live at LICM Theater -

SPLAT! - Join is some messy art fun as we explore the abstract art style of Jackson Pollack. Circus Mondays with The National Circus Project

Monday, August 11 at 1:30 p.m.

Each week different performers from the National Circus Project will arrive at our theater to introduce and perform many circus acts such as balancing, juggling, clowning and much more! Come watch the pros and then try it out for yourself!

Age: 3 and up. Fee: $3 with Museum Admission ($2 for LICM Members). $8 Theater Only.

Science Fun Tuesday - A Grand Experiment

Tuesday, August 12 at 1:30 p.m.

Join us in the LICM Theater for an exploration into the mysterious world of science! Become a member of the LICM Scientist Team and learn more about an everyday item.

Age: 5 and up. Fee: $3 with Museum Admission ($2 for LICM Members). $8 Theater Only.

Outdoor Exploration- Use all your senses as you explore the Museum's outdoor environmental gallery; then create your own multi-sensory flower to take home as a souvenir of your visit. Live at LICM Theater - Innovation in Dance

Wednesday, August 13 at 1:30 p.m.

Join Dance Visions as they present Innovation in Dance, an exploration into contemporary dance. Watch as this innovative dance troupe incorporates themes of science and visual arts into their presentation.

Age: 3 and up. Fee: $3 with Museum Admission ($2 for LICM Members). $8 Theater Only.

SUMMER ARTIST SERIES:

Jackson Pollock - American Action Painting

Wednesday, August 13 at 3 p.m.

Join us for this fun and messy workshop as we learn more about the artist Jackson Pollack and his artwork. Move and groove as you try your hand at creating your own abstract, Pollock-style 'action painting' to take home.

Age: 6 and up. Fee: $3 with museum admission ($2 LICM members).

Live at LICM Theater -

Nature Thursdays - Wildman Steve Brill

Thursday, August 14 at 1:30 p.m.

Did you know there are dozens of delicious things growing in your own backyard? Join "Wildman" Steve Brill as he brings many of these wild foods into the museum to discuss, share and taste. You'll never look at your backyard the same way again! This week we'll explore Herbs and Greens !

Age: 5 and up. Fee: $3 with Museum Admission ($2 for LICM Members). $8 Theater Only.

Didgeridoos Down Under

(Kangaroo Crossing Workshop)

Thursday, August 14 at 1 p.m.

Not only do didgeridoos have a fun name, but they are one of the world's oldest wind instruments. The indigenous tribes of Australia have included them in their dancing and singing ceremonies for many years, using tree branches and wild bees to make them. Learn more about how didgeridoos look and sound, and then create music with your very own didgeridoo. This program expands on concepts introduced in the Kangaroo Crossing exhibit.

Age: 5 and up. Fee: $3 with museum admission ($2 LICM members).

Garden Sense

Friday, August 15 at 3 p.m.

Let's get outside and explore Our Backyard. Use all five senses to discover the many things that grow, live and are part of our outdoor world. Participate in exciting activities that utilize your senses. Using different fabrics, textures and scents create your own multi-sensory garden flower to take home.

Age: 5 and up. Fee: $3 with museum admission ($2 LICM members).

Live at LICM Theater -

Friday Fun - Story Radio Live on WLICM

Friday, August 15 at 1:30 p.m.

Join us in the LICM theater and learn how old time radio shows were created. Using stories we all know and love help create this live broadcast as we add sound effects, character voices, old time radio ads, and live audience sounds. When the broadcast is complete you will be able to go into the museum to hear your broadcast replayed over an old time radio.

Ages 5 and up. Fee: $3 with Museum Admission ($2 for LICM Members). $8 Theater Only.

Summer Series - Globetrotters

Wednesday, August 13 from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and Friday, August 15 from 2-4 p.m.

Join us as we take off on adventures in far away places. Discover many of the diverse and fascinating cultures found all over the globe and the creative ways people live and celebrate. Go around the world with LICM as you try your hand at multi-cultural crafts and activities.

Week 6: North America

Native American Leather Bracelets

The early Native Americans used buffalo hides to tell stories of their hunting adventures. Learn about traditional Native American symbols as you use your imagination to create narrative art works on a decorative leather bracelet.

Age: 3 and up. Free with museum admission.

Outdoor Pop-Up Programs

Tuesday, August 12 and Thursday, August 14

Look for garden, water and environmental programs to pop-up in the Our Backyard exhibit this summer. Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon the Museum will offer hands-on workshops led by an environmental design educator. Join us as we dig, splash, create and learn in our beautiful outdoor gallery.

Free with Museum admission. Program support provided by nationalgrid Foundation.

Kangaroo Crossing

Take a trip to the land down under as you hop over the horizon and learn about Aussie life. During your visit to the other side of the globe, you can test your muscles with a kangaroo jump exercise, take a virtual swim with the fishes in the Great Barrier Reef, crawl inside a giant termite mound, spend time under the shade of a eucalyptus tree and visit the Sydney Opera House! Interactive video screens, hands-on activities and life-size models allow children to understand what it would be like to grow up in Australia.

This interactive exhibit is designed to introduce children to the geography, geology, biology, economy, architecture and natural wonders and climate of Australia. The exhibit answers the first questions children ask when thinking about other cultures - what is the same and what is different about this place?

Kangaroo Crossing was created by EdVenture Children's Museum, Columbia, South Carolina. Local exhibit support provided by Astoria Federal Savings.

All ages. Free with museum admission.

Community Gallery -13th Annual "Come Go With Me" Poster Contest

Through August 31

Each year Long Island Transportation Management (LITM) encourages children (grades K-8) to use art to illustrate the need to reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality by using commuting alternatives. The artwork on display encourages adults to consider such options as carpooling, vanpooling, telecommuting, biking, walking and mass transportation.

All ages. Free with museum admission.

KaleidoZone - Frame Of Mind: Stretching Imagination

5th Annual LICM Staff & Volunteer Art Exhibition

Museum staff and volunteers were challenged to stretch their imagination instead of the usual canvas for this year's annual art exhibition. See what these creative individuals come up with to fill (or overflow or design around) a simple wooden frame.

All ages. Free with museum admission.

Early Childhood Programs

stART (story+ART): Tuesday to Friday from 12:30-1 p.m. †

Creative Connections: Tuesday and Thursday from 10:30-11:10 a.m. †

Music and Movement: Wednesday and Friday from 11-11:30 a.m. †

Messy Afternoons: Saturday-Sunday from 3:30-5 p.m.

†Fee: $3 with museum admission ($2 LICM members)

All activities will be held at the Long Island Children's Museum, 11 Davis Avenue, East Garden City, NY. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Museum admission: $10 for adults and children over 1 year old, $9 seniors, FREE to museum members and children under 1 year old. Additional fees for theater and special programs may apply. For additional information, contact 516-224-5800.