Join us for Drumming with Nina featuring a 45 minute interactive drum program focusing on connection, celebration, and fun led by Toca artist, Nina Rodriguez. Using voices, drums and boom whackers, Nina and her team will take you on a mgical and entertaining adventure. From drum rumbles to a game of call and response to making music together - the experience promises to be educational, exciting, engaging and tons of fun! *$3 per child + musuem admission

Get up close and personal with the creeping, crawling, slithering animals that make their home at the Animal World and Snake Farm Zoo! * Free with museum admission

Students will use learning games to “act out” ecosystem processes such as predator-prey relationships and population dynamics. We will spend the entire hour outside so please come prepared with water and proper attire.

On Saturday, July 10, 17 and 24, Heritage Square Museum presents its annual Silent and Classic Movie Nights series. In celebration of this year being the 90th anniversary of women receiving the right to vote, the museum is proud to feature the female stars of the Golden Era, including Louise Brooks, Theda Bara, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine and Clara Bow. Gates open at 7:30 PM.

Discovery Science Center and California State University, Fullerton, are teaming up to offer a day of hands-on science fun! The day of family-friendly activities will be hosted at Fullerton’s Titan Stadium. Free activities will include: carved-pumpkin contests (bring your own carved pumpkin), catapult contest, music & entertainment. http://www.discoverycube.org/fsea.aspx?q=46

They’re coming to get you…at Discovery Science Center! No magnifying glass needed here; these bugs are larger than life! Experience giant bug animatronics, a world-class insect collection, and interactive educational stations. See the world of bugs through their eyes, find out about “the good, the bad, the ugly” of the insect world, even play with our remote-controlled robotic bugs!

Most of the time you don't find your own smells and scabs and oozes too disgusting; it’s usually the same stuff on someone else's body that seems really gross. Join us on Saturday, August 14 and get grossed out, not only by the ickiness of others, but by the ickiness of yourself too! Meet your local waste management company and find out where your waste goes, meet those beautiful ladies in department stores that help you get rid of those nasty facial imperfections, and finally, get ready to Gross Yourself Out and get SLIMED!

DinoQuest, the world’s only interactive dinosaur exhibit, gets a fresh start with a grand re-opening with a weekend all about dinosaurs! Join us for a meet and greet with the baby triceratops from WALKING WITH DINOSAURS, enjoy Dino Quest game play for FREE, attend special guest lectures by renowned paleontologist Mark Roeder, and make your own dinosaur fossil!

FOR KIDS AGES 5 TO 12 Our Mid-Summer Sleepover is always a wonder-riffic night of activities, from Planet Kid exploration to indoor wall climbing to inflatable jumpification to gym game-ology! All activities are well-monitored and structured, ensuring your child's safety and good times. The kids will be treated to a ginormous wall-projected movie (age-appropriate) as they bed down for the night.

Sunday, July 18, 2010 Join us at 3p.m. at MGCCC Jeff Davis Campus for the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center's WINGS Performing Arts summer musical The Jolly Mon, a Caribbean musical fantasy based on the copyrighted book and song by Jimmy Buffet. The show is full of fun island music, an enchanted guitar, and a magic dolphin. Tickets are $12 general admission, and $6 students and seniors 65+. Tickets will be available on PayPal at www.lmdc.org or by calling 228-897-6039.