Clinton Area Chamber Of Commerce issued the following announcement on Aug. 17.
The Felix Adler Children's Discovery Center, "Clinton, Iowa's Children's Museum!” will bring more musical creation to Funtime Friday with a music making experience. Also, a fundraiser for the children’s museum will be Monday, August 24, at Pizza Hut, in Clinton.
Funtime Friday: Music Music - ENCORE!
Funtime Friday is the Discovery Center’s popular program for young children and their grown-ups, held every Friday morning at 10:30 a.m. The activity for Friday, August 21, will be Music Music ENCORE! Children and adults will learn about different types of instruments. Rhythm, string and wind instruments will be on hand. Everyone can play Boomwhackers together to create great music. Participants will be socially distanced as they experience the shared activities. No snack will be served.
Pizza Hut Fundraising Night
Pizza Hut on North Second Street, in Clinton, will conduct a fundraising night for the Discovery Center on Monday, August 24, from 5 to 7 p.m. A previous Pizza Hut fundraiser for the children’s museum was on the day of the regional windstorm. The restaurant lost power and no pizzas could be sold. It is hoped this fundraiser can help the non-profit organization.
Customers can order pizza for delivery or carry out, as the restaurant is not conducting dine-in service. Carry out service is particularly easy for customers. Pizza Hut employees bring the pizza out to the customer’s car for ease of pick-up. The Discovery Center will receive 20% of everything sold during the two-hour fundraiser.
Monarch Caterpillar and Butterfly Exhibit
A seasonal exhibit currently on display at the Discovery Center is the monarch caterpillar habitat. Many monarch butterfly eggs, caterpillars, and chrysalises are on display to teach about the insect’s lifecycle. Guests can watch caterpillars eat milkweed, make chrysalises and hatch into butterflies. The exhibit will continue until after the Great Migration, sometime in late September, when area butterflies will join the group flight south to over winter.
Birthday Parties at the Discovery Center
The Discovery Center has two private event rooms each of which can be rented for your private party or special event. Hand painted mural adorn each room with one as a royal castle interior and the other in a woodsy outdoor theme. Each room has a kitchenette and tables and chairs for guests. There are no restrictions on food that may be brought in. Room rental includes admission to the children’s museum for all party guests. Arm painting is also available. Call the Discovery Center to reserve dates and times.
New Hours & New Way to Stay Safe and Play
The Discovery Center is open adjusted hours and is following a procedure for “a new way to stay safe and play.” Hours are Fridays and Saturdays with a morning play period from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and an afternoon play period from 2:30 to 5 p.m. The mid-day closure is a time for museum staff to sanitize and disinfect surfaces and to replace toys and costumes. On Sundays, the Discovery Center will be open for an afternoon play period from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Face masks are required for everyone ages two and older. Guests may wear their own masks or they may get one at the Discovery Center. Disposable masks are available for purchase for $1. If cloth masks are preferred, they are available to rent for $1.
Other reopening differences at the Discovery Center include the turning off of drinking fountains for hygiene reasons. Guests are encouraged to bring their own drinking water if desired. Bottled water will also be available to purchase for $1.
Guests are asked not to bring in food or snacks to be eaten during general playtimes. The only food allowed is for scheduled private parties held inside the closed party rooms.
Also, as a precaution, members of the public who are experiencing fever, cough, shortness of breath, or who have been in close contact with someone who is ill with COVID-19, are asked to not enter the Discovery Center at this time.
The mission of the Felix Adler Children’s Discovery Center is to provide a safe and positive environment for families to discover the world by exploring arts, culture, literacy and science through educational programs and interactive exhibits. They turn no one away based on inability to pay.
The Discovery Center is located at 332 8th Avenue South in downtown Clinton, Iowa, at the foot
of the U.S. 30 Bridge over the mighty Mississippi – where the Lincoln Highway meets the Great River Road.
Museum admission is $4 per person ages two to 64, $3 per person ages 65 and older, free for children one and younger, and free for members of the children's museum.
Contact them at (563) 243-3600, email at info@adlerdiscoverycenter.org or message them on Facebook at FelixAdlerChildren’sDiscoveryCenter.
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Source: Clinton Area Chamber Of Commerce
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