Kidspace Children's Museum

And that's a wrap on Winter Frolic! Thank you to our members and guests for bringing the joy and making it magical.

Kidspace will be closed Jan 8-10 to reset the campus. Looking forward to so much more in 2024!

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Did you catch us on KCAL News with Sheba Turk in the SoCal Spotlight? 🔦

Kidspace Children Museum | SoCal Spotlight Sheba Turk reports from the Kidspace Children Museum in Pasadena, part of her continued spotlight on the world's most focused on city every new year.

It’s a Sock Puppet Pop-up with The Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry featuring an exclusive puppet show: “Where Do The Lost Socks Go?” 🧦

Final performances are December 30 at 11:15 am and 1:15 pm. Link in bio for details.

Plus you can create your own sock puppet in the Imagination Station or don your favorite socks for a slip-slipping dance party in the Sock Skating Rink!

Load ‘em up and head over to Kidspace! 🚙 We are open all week 10 am - 5 pm and NYE 9 am - 1 pm. Tips to plan your visit…

🎟️ reserve your tickets on our website before you arrive (members too!)
⏰ tickets have a timed entry but if you are few minutes off, don’t fret… we know you have kids
📝 sign your digital sock skating waiver before you arrive to save time
🧦 hop on and off the Sock Skating rink as often as you like… tickets are good all day
🍱 bring your own food and snacks or purchase from the Bean Sprouts Cafe
☺️ pack your patience and kindness… this is a busy week for everyone

Now, Let’s Frolic!

It’s giving JOY! 🥰🤗

Looking for a unique gift? Kidspace gift admission or membership makes the perfect gift for family, friends, and neighbors. 🎁

When you give Kidspace tickets to a child, you’re giving a day of exploration, imagination, and play at Kidspace’s 3.5-acre outdoor campus. Better yet, invite them to share the day with you! 💝

Link in bio for the best gift of the season!

The Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry and Kidspace Children’s Museum are pleased to present: Where Do The Lost Socks Go? 🧦

Join the adventure to find the lost socks in this delightfully silly puppet show, premiering only at Kidspace.

Performances are December 23 and 30 at 11:15 am and 1:15 pm. Link in bio for details.

Don’t let the fun stop there, put on your fuzziest socks to twirl, glide and penguin slide on the no-ice Sock Skating Rink or create your own sock puppet in the Imagination Station.

Raise the Roof for Kidspace! Donate today and double your impact! https://secure.kidspacemuseum.org/events/018bdf16-7815-790e-030b-4b055721361e

It’s Giving Tuesday! Let’s Raise the Roof for Kidspace!

This Giving Tuesday let’s Raise the Roof for Kidspace!Donate today to double your impact! No gift is too small. ❤️ There’s a rainy winter brewing, and we need your help to keep the museum safe and dry. ☔️   For the last 20 years, Kidspace has been inspiring kid-driven learning and shared family experiences in the historic Fannie E. Morrison Horticultural Center. These beautiful historic buildings need urgent roof repairs to withstand the predicted El Niño weather patterns.   Donate today and your gift will be doubled! We have received a generous $25,000 matching grant for our Raise the Roof Rainy Day Fund. Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar.   Kidspace is a nonprofit museum that depends upon supporters like you. Thank you for contributing to our efforts to invite all children in our community to play every day, rain or shine.   #kidspacemuseum #givingtuesday2023 #raisetheroof4kidspace #childrensmuseum

Your holiday shopping is in the bag! 🛍️ All weekend long in-store shoppers will receive a complimentary Muddy Boot Farm tote bag with purchases over $75 (while supplies last). 💚

On Sunday, November 26, Kidspace is participating in with other cultural institutions worldwide. Be a patron! 🩵

Come frolic over to the Kidspace Museum Store for gifts that are sure to surprise and delight every child on your list. Plus, each purchase supports the Kidspace mission. 💝

Thank you for choosing Kidspace again! 🧡 We are grateful to you, our community, for helping us create a space for enriched play and learning, where families can connect and children can thrive.

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

This Giving Tuesday 11/28 — let’s Raise the Roof for Kidspace! ❤️ Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar.

There’s a rainy winter brewing, and we need your help to keep the museum safe and dry. ☔️

For the last 20 years, Kidspace has been inspiring kid-driven learning and shared family experiences in the historic Fannie E. Morrison Horticultural Center. These beautiful historic buildings need urgent roof repairs to withstand the predicted El Niño weather patterns. 🌧️

Donate today and your gift will be doubled! We have received a generous $25,000 matching grant for our Raise the Roof Rainy Day Fund.✖️2️⃣

Kidspace is a nonprofit museum that depends upon supporters like you. Thank you for contributing to our efforts to invite all children in our community to play every day, rain or shine. 🌦️

Heading into the holidays like… 😄😆😍😁

Kick off the holiday season with some warm and fuzzy family memories at Winter Frolic! Explore, create, and celebrate the magic of the holidays together.

Kidspace will be open all weekend with special hours on Monday, November 20. Visit our website to plan your visit!

All thrills, no chill…Winter Frolic is here! Come make the warmest family memories at Kidspace. ❄️⛄️

We highly recommend reserving your tickets online before your visit, especially on busy weekends and holidays. 🩵

Kidspace is today 11/11 until 1 pm and 11/12 from 10 am to 5 pm.

Link in bio for tickets and info.

Zero Chill for today’s opening of Winter Frolic! We are completely SOLD OUT for today. Please come frolic and play another day! ❄️⛄️🧊

Kidspace is open from 9 am to 1 pm on Saturday, November 11 and 10 am to 5 pm on Sunday, November 12. Link in bio for tickets and information.

Make warm and fuzzy family memories at Kidspace Winter Frolic! Starting this Friday it's all the fantasy fun of “snow play” in warm and sunny Southern California—no mittens required.

🧦 Practice a penguin slide across our no-ice Sock Skating Rink
🧊 Build a fort with frost-free ice blocks
🪵 Camp out in a cozy cabin
⛄️Dress up a snowman family, including their dog

And that's just the tip of the iceberg!

❄️ Winter Frolic
📆11/10/23 to 1/7/24
📍Kidspace Children’s Museum

Come frolic and play the Kidspace way this holiday season and make everyone’s holiday wish come true—treasured moments that fill your heart with warm and lasting memories.

Visit our Website for Details and Tickets

This weekend make marigold paper flowers and enjoy music and dance during the season of Día de los Mu***os. 🌼💀Weekend performances are at 11:15 am and 1:15 pm.

On Saturday, November 4, enjoy the colorful twills and lively steps of contemporary dance in Mexican folklore with Técnica Arte y Folklore. 💃

Then sing, dance, and enjoy the melodies of Las Colibrí, an all-female mariachi ensemble on Sunday, November 5. 🎻

Link in bio for details, tickets and more stories about Día de los Mu***os. 🌼💀🎻💃🧡

Get a Free Pumpkin for a Friend!
Join us for the final days of our Very Happy Halloween celebration! 👻 Shake your skeleton bones 🩻and do the monster mash 👹 in our costume parades, befriend a sssensational snake 🐍 , and decorate the perfect pumpkin to take home. 🎃

Sunday, October 29, and Halloween, buy one pumpkin to decorate and get one for a friend FREE! Pumpkin decorating is $4 and can be purchased online with your ticket or at museum admissions. (Limit one free pumpkin per transaction. While supplies last.)

NOTE: Kidspace is closed today, October 28, for UCLA football. Join us on Sunday or Tuesday for Halloween fun.

Meet Owliver! 🦉
Created for Owl-o-ween by artist Ken Mori out of up-cycled cardboard boxes. 📦

Thank you to our members for submitting so many fabulous names - Owliver was the winner! 🏆

Special thanks to our partners Wild Wings of California, and for helping to make Owl-o-ween a magical, educational, and inspiring evening for all. 💫

Halloween is here 👻 Kick off Spooky Szn at Kidspace!

Special hours on Saturday 9/30 and Sunday 10/1. Visit from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. Parade times will be 10 am and 12 pm.

We’re strutting our stuff in our daily costume parades, picking our favorite pumpkins to decorate, make some fashion-week-worthy costume accessories, and meeting some sssssensational snakes.

Link in bio for info and tickets.

https://kidspacemuseum.org/halloween-2023/

Halloween - Kidspace Children's Museum You and your little pumpkin are invited to experience the magic and make-believe of Halloween at Kidspace Museum's delightfully not-so-scary celebration from September 28 to October 31! Feel the beat as you march in our daily costume parades. Meet a slithering snake up-close, decorate a pumpkin, or....

You and your little pumpkin are invited to a Very Happy Halloween at Kidspace! It’s the perfect way to kick off spooky season.

🎉 Join the rollicking costume parades
🎃 Decorate the perfect jack-o'-lantern
🐍 Meet some unspooky snakes up close
👻 Create your own costume accesories

📆 September 28th until Halloween

Note: On Saturday 9/30 and Sunday 10/1 Kidspace will be open from 9 am to 1 pm due to events at the Rose Bowl

The staff at Kidspace (pictured here) is busy preparing for our favorite season… 🎃 Halloween is almost here!

Kidspace will be closed today and tomorrow…take this time to work on your costumes 👻

Arr matey! Bein' that today be , Kidspace be sharin' our old "How to Make a Treasure Map" on ye ol’ blog. Let yer imagination take the lads and lasses on an adventure. 🏴‍☠️🗺️

Check the link, ye scurvy dogs!
https://kidspacemuseum.org/for-families-at-home/make-a-treasure-map-2/

(Also, get excited…Halloween is coming!)

Fall is a great time to cultivate connections with old and new friends. Kick off the school year with a playdate at Kidspace!

Get to know a new classmate. Reconnect with an old friend. Book a meet-up for your parent group.
 
Kidspace is the perfect environment to build the foundation of friendship for a new school year, with 3.5 acres of play-based learning to explore together.
 
Make your plans to share a day of play at Kidspace!

Come play this weekend! Visit our website for the latest hours and information.

We’re in the final stretch of Summer! 🏕️ It’s your last week to explore Kidspace Campout.

Hop on a trike for one more trip over the Golden Gate Bridge. Take one more spin on Los Trompos. Gather 'round for one more campfire singalong.

Campout closes for the Summer on September 4. Kidspace will be closed 9/5-9/7 for campus improvements.

Visit our website for tickets and info.

Special Art Worshop this weekend! Join us on Sunday, August 27 for Sunny Cyanotypes with artist-in-residence Georgina Reskala!

Through print making and cyanotype photography, engage all of your senses and create a one-of-a-kind piece of art. Learn about composition and the power of self-expression through art making.

Drop by the Campout Craft Cabin on Sunday from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm.

Sunny Cyanotypes with Georgina Reskala - Kidspace Children's Museum Join artist Georgina Reskala a free drop-in cyanotype-making workshop!

Due to the anticipated weather conditions, Kidspace will be closed to the public Sunday, August 20 and Monday, August 21.

If you had tickets reserved, please check your email.

Stay Safe!

Our private reception for SUPERHEROES!, the new exhibition of Tierra del Sol artists, was a ⚡️super⚡️ success!

We partnered with Transformative Arts for a show, currated by jill moniz, celebrating the Tierra del Sol Foundation and its mission to champion inclusion and value for people with disabilities through creative pathways to employment, education, and the arts. 🦸

Visit https://tierra-del-sol-gallery.myshopify.com/collections/kidspace to view the artwork or DM for information on viewing the art in person. All proceeds benefit the artists and the Tierra del Sol Gallery

Tierra graduates enrich the experiences of our guests and staff every day. For information about hiring through Tierra visit Tierra del Sol Foundation

Tierra del Sol Gallery Tierra del Sol Studios Tierra del Sol Foundation

Superheroes spotted at Kidspace! 👀

Unleash your inner hero 🦸‍♂️ this Saturday, August 12, from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm at our Superheroes Cape Workshop in the Campout Craft Cabin!

Kidspace is proud to host this unique workshop, developed and led by artists from Tierra del Sol Galleries.

Link in Bio for Details