An opportunity for families to enjoy tours and hands-on workshops the third Sunday of the month.

Sunday, January 17    
Pattern and Design with Deborah Yasinsky

12:30 – 1:15 pm
Family Tour: Patterns and Design
Look, listen, and share ideas about the Victorian patterns and designs you find in historic Glenview. Explore the rich wall coverings, upholstery, and furniture carvings with Museum Educator Deborah Yasinsky.

1:30 – 2:30 and 3 – 4 pm
Pattern and Design workshop with Deborah Yasinsky
Learn how to design a “repeat pattern” and print your own textile design using basic print-making techniques.

Limited to 7 families, on a first-come first-serve basis. Suggested for families with children 7 years age and older.

Sunday, February 21
Celebrate Jacob Lawrence in a Print Making Workshop with Maggie Chang
1 – 4 pm

While Jacob Lawrence’s paintings and prints focus on the African American experience they reference universal themes of community. Enjoy a sneak peak of the Museum’s upcoming exhibition, Jacob Lawrence: Prints, 1963-2000 A Comprehensive Survey, in a printmaking workshop led by Educator Maggie Chang. Discuss Jacob Lawrence’s depictions of the Harlem neighborhood in which he grew up. Then, use a simple printmaking technique to depict your own neighborhood.

Limited to 7 families, on a first-come first-serve basis. Suggested for families with children 7 years age and older.

Sunday, April 18
Paper Making with Deborah Yasinsky

12:30 - 1:15 pm
Family Tour: Hudson River Museum’s Backyard
Celebrate Earth Day by exploring the plant life surrounding the Hudson River Museum and discussing the environment and art. Collect natural materials to embellish your own handmade paper.

1:30 – 2:30 and 3 - 4 pm
Paper Making workshop with Deborah Yasinsky
Led by Museum Educator Deborah Yasinsky, this workshop introduces participants to the simple papermaking practices using recycled and natural materials.

Limited to 7 families, on a first-come first-serve basis. Suggested for families with children 7 years age and older.

Sunday, May 16
Prints and Printing with Rachel Crumpler

12:30 – 1:15 pm
Family Tour: Prints & Printmaking
Explore the process of creation with Museum Educator Rachel Crumpler. Look at brilliantly-colored prints by Jacob Lawrence and discuss the process of creation for everyone, from artists to carpenters.

1:30 – 2:30 and 3 – 4 pm
Print Making workshop with Rachel Crumpler
Experience printmaking! After viewing prints by Jacob Lawrence, experiment with silkscreen techniques to make your own series of prints.

Limited to 7 families, on a first-come first-serve basis. Suggested for families with children 7 years age and older.

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Families join the Museum’s Junior Docents every Saturday and Sunday, 1 - 3 pm for arts-and-crafts.

Bracelet Bonanza
Create a colorful bracelet
Learn the process used to create early plastic bracelets in Bakelitein Yonkers: Pioneering the Age of Plastics before stringing your own foam bracelet.

Build Up
Paint wooden toy blocks
See the many toys displayed in Bakelite in Yonkers:  Pioneering the Age of Plastics and then design and paint your own wooden blocks.

Colorful Collage
Create a story collage
See the vivid stories told through the artist’s work in Jacob Lawrence:  Prints, then tell your own tale through a colorful collage.

Delft Designer
Paint a ceramic tile in the Dutch style.
Check out the exhibition Dutch New York: The Roots of HudsonValley Culture then design your own Delft tile.

Experiments in Printmaking
Make a colorful watercolor print
Visit the special exhibition, Jacob Lawrence:  Prints, and then create your own watercolor mono-print in the workshop.

Fluttering Fans
Design your own paper fan
See the exhibition Collecting for a New Millennium then decorate a folding paper fan with your own unique design.

Greetings from Yonkers
Create a postcard to send to a friend
See the exhibition Collecting for a New Millennium then design a postcard with         scenes from Yonkers and the Hudson River

Mold and Shape
Mold and shape modeling dough
See various shapes that were molded out of Bakelite plastics in Bakelite in Yonkers:  Pioneering the Age of Plastics.  In the workshop, visitors get their own modeling compound to practice various shaping and molding techniques.

River Explorer
Create a fold-out map of the Hudson River.
Travel from the Adirondack Mountains to New YorkHarbor in our interactive environmental gallery Hudson Riverama, then create an expandable map of the river.

Sailing Ships
Construct a mini wooden boat.
See Dutch New York: The Roots of HudsonValley Culture then create your own little vessel.

Setting Sail
Travel down the Hudson River in the interactive hands-on gallery Riverama then create your own little vessel.

Stitch by Stitch
Create a quilt square
View the beautiful quilts in Collecting for a New Millennium then design your own square with colorful fabrics.

Telling Tiles
Design a fairy tale tile
Visit the historical home, Glenview, and create your own fairy tale tile.

What a Character!
Create a Red Grooms’ inspired 3 dimensional character
Take a peek at all the characters created by Red Grooms in The Bookstore and then design your own three dimensional character.  Characters will be designed by drawing in clear plastic acetate with markers or acrylic paint.

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Creative activities and planetarium shows for students on school break 1 pm - 3:30 pm. (Museum open Mon - Fri, 12 - 5 pm).
FREE with Museum admission. Students must be accompanied by a caregiver.

Hudson River Week
Monday, March 29 - Friday, April 2
1 - 3:30 pm
Hudson River Week has been made possible by a grant from

Hudson Riverama Tour
Junior Docents lead workshops in the environmental gallery.

Craft
Decorate a Japanese windsock, after learning about the 200 species of fish that live in the Hudson.

Star Shows
1:30 pm - River Through Time
2:30 pm - Ocean of Air, Ocean of Space

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