Join us for our weekly storytelling adventure, Tales for Tots, held each Monday and Friday at 11:00am. Staff will engage guests with interactive storytelling as well as movement and/or music activities that connect to the story theme of the day.
Mondays - Museum of Ancient Life
11am-11:20am (Please purchase a 10:30am or 11am ticket for this program).
Fridays - Butterfly Biosphere
11am-11:20am (Please purchase a 10:30am or 11am ticket for this program).
Included with regular venue admission.
Family groups will be encouraged to space 6 ft. apart in on open area of the museum using colored dots to indicate individual seating areas. Little to no props will be used and will be thoroughly sanitized after each program. The program will run about 15-20 minutes once a week. More offerings will become available as COVID-19 restrictions are released. Masks are required for all participants 3 years of age and above.
Upcoming Schedule:
Every week in January, we will explore the roots of Native American stories, the lessons they teach, and the moral and cultural values they carry. Come learn about Coyote, Cottontail and Buzzard, and how they all live in harmony on Mother Earth!
Museum of Ancient Life
January 4 | A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea by Jessica Law
What's at the bottom of the sea, do you know? It might be a lot more than you think!
January 11 | Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner
Come on a wonderful adventure where we will discover what Snowmen do at night.
January 18 | Tea Rex by Molly Idle
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have Tea with a Dinosaur? Join us for a tea party with a very special guest.
January 25 | How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth by Michelle Robinson
How would you wash a woolly mammoth would you start with trunk or would you start with the feet?
February 1 | Have You Seen My Dinosaur by Jon Surgal
How do you find a missing dinosaur who’s large and green and likes to roar? When a little boy’s dinosaur decides to play hide-and-seek, he is surprisingly difficult to track down.
February 8 | The Bravest Knight by Mercer Mayer
For the bravest knight, a day’s adventure involves rescuing a cat from a tree, forcing bad knights to pick flowers for the king, and boldly fighting a fire-breathing dragon.
February 15 | Little Ant’s Valentine by S.M.R. Saia
Little Ant hates Valentine's Day. None of the girls in the anthill like him, so he has nothing to celebrate. Then he meets the pretty ant.
February 22 | Nanette’s Baguette by Mo Willems
It’s Nanette’s first big solo trip to the bakery. But . . . will she get the baguette from baker Juliette? Or will Nanette soon be beset with regret?
Butterfly Biosphere
January 1 | No Tales for Tots
January 8 | Dine’ String Games with Guest Storyteller Eileen Quintana
Mother Dove is missing! Who will help her two little doves find their mother when wood, water and rock are being so unkind?
January 15 | Ms. Coyote and Doe (A Navajo Tale)
According to Navajo tradition, coyote tales are told in the wintertime. Come hear how Coyote learns the consequence of being jealous and why Coyote and Doe are enemies today.
January 22 | Cottontail Tames Wood, Water and Rock (A Uintah/Ouray Ute Tale)
Mother Dove is missing! Who will help her two little doves find their mother when wood, water and rock are being so unkind?
January 29 | Cottontail Shoots the Sun (A Uintah/Ouray Ute Tale)
Cottontail cannot bear the heat any longer, so he decides to teach Sun a lesson and fight him. Have you ever wondered why Sun moves so slowly and cautiously each morning?
February 5 | Frank the Seven-Legged Spider by Michaele Razi
Frank is a spider who loves to weave amazing artistic webs, only to wake up one day to discover he's missing a leg. Is he still a spider if he only has seven legs?
February 12 | Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett
Annabelle finds what looks like an ordinary box full of very colorful yarn. But this box is magic, and soon she transforms her entire town.
February 19 | Clumsy Crab by Ruth Galloway
Nipper the crab’s huge, clumsy claws always cause him problems until his friend Octopus gets tangled up in some seaweed and only Nipper can free him.
February 26 | Lettice the Flying Rabbit by Mandy Stanley
Lettice is determined to make her dream of flying come true. When a small plane lands in the meadow, she sees the perfect opportunity.