Category Archives: Volunteers

Volunteers contribute thousands of hours each year to keep the Museum & Theatre up and running! Learn more about who’s doing it, why they’re doing it, and how you can help.

Inspired by pal and puppet, Bridget created Visual Impairment Awareness Day

Bridget Fehrs, an 8th grader at Lincoln Middle School, has been a puppeteer with Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine’s Kids on the Block puppet troupe for nearly three years. (If you come to our theatre productions, you’ve probably seen her on stage there, too – she’s been acting with us for years, and just [...]

Also posted in Events, Introducing…, Meet a volunteer!, Theatre | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Free admission + tons of events = Joyful Children’s Day (Friday, January 4)

On Friday, January 4, we’re celebrating children everywhere with a FREE admission day and evening (10am-8pm). To celebrate children and bring joy to the community, we’re filling the Museum & Theatre music, art, stories and more, all free and open to the public. Events begin at 10am and continue through First Friday evening. Scheduled events [...]

Also posted in Big (and little) news!, Events, Just for fun! | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Call to Action: Volunteer on January 4 to honor children everywhere

In the wake of the a tragedy like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary, we all feel a little helpless. We want to do something, but there isn’t anything that can erase what happened or even ease the pain of those who are suffering. Yet we want to find some way to make things better [...]

Also posted in Big (and little) news!, Events, Opportunities, Reaching out | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Looking to the Future

Stacy Normand is a Cultural Programs intern at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. She is blogging about the Youth Imagine Project. Read her previous posts here. This week during the Youth Imagine Project, a few students picked dates for their projects or for personal meetings to discuss their projects further. We also focused some [...]

Also posted in Guest Blogger | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Big Plans Ahead!

Stacy Normand is a Cultural Programs intern at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. She is blogging about the Youth Imagine Project. Read her previous posts here. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks! It’s SAT weekend for high school juniors (good luck to all you wonderful high schoolers who are taking them!) and it’s [...]

Also posted in Guest Blogger, Introducing…, Learning through play | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Lesson Plans

Stacy Normand is a Cultural Programs intern at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. She is blogging about the Youth Imagine Project. Read her previous posts here. An aspect of the Youth Imagine Project is giving students professional skills that will help them achieve success, no matter what path they may choose to take in [...]

Also posted in Guest Blogger, How does it teach? | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Starting Projects

Stacy Normand is a Cultural Programs intern at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. She is blogging about the Youth Imagine Project. Read her previous posts here. It seems like everywhere we look, someone new wants to help with our new greenhouse! Alias, one of our Youth Imagine volunteers, has decided that he wants to help [...]

Also posted in Exhibits, Guest Blogger | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Sketches & Erasers

Stacy Normand is a Cultural Programs intern at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. She is blogging about the Youth Imagine Project. Read her first post here. This Thursday I got the chance to meet with Elfriede, one of the Youth Imagine students I have mentioned in prior blogs. She brought in a sketch of [...]

Also posted in Guest Blogger | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

What’s in the Greenhouse?!

Stacy Normand is a Cultural Programs intern at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. She is blogging about the Youth Imagine Project. Read her first post here. Have you peeked out into our backyard lately? Have you noticed a new addition? We have a greenhouse now! Isn’t that exciting? We have started planting lots of [...]

Also posted in Exhibits, Guest Blogger, How does it teach?, Improvements and upgrades, Learning through play | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Polishing a Project

Stacy Normand is a Cultural Programs intern at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. She is blogging about the Youth Imagine Project. Read her first post here. It’s mid-term week at USM, which means I’m in the dregs of research and outlines for papers. Personally, I think the best part about doing a presentation, or [...]

Also posted in Guest Blogger, Introducing…, Learning through play | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment