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Enjoy this STEM challenge and create an aircraft. A hoop glider is a homemade paper aircraft that uses the four forces of flight to fly, much like a paper airplane. Curved surfaces on top of the glider help generate lift. An aerodynamic shape reduces drag. Gravity pulls the glider toward the ground and your arm

Enjoy the holiday season and its appeal to all the senses through the eyes of a cat, with the book A Pussycat’s Christmas, written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Anne Mortimer. Recommended for ages 3–6.

As we come to the Solstice at the end of the year, the nights are long and dark, with many beautiful sights waiting in the evening sky. This is also the time of year when we hear about legends of light—the Star of Bethlehem, holiday lights, yule logs, and the like. There are astronomical connections

Join Masha Turchinsky, Director and CEO of Hudson River Museum, live from the Museum’s Women to the Fore exhibition, as she connects with three featured artists from the exhibition—Joséphine Douet (11–11:20am), Seongmin Ahn (11:20–11:40am), and Shanequa Benitez (11:40am–12pm). The artists will discuss their pieces in the exhibition as well as what each is working on

Explore the exhibition Landscape Art & Virtual Travel with this fun activity as a guide. Learn how different artists render landscapes, both real and fantastical, by looking closely at different works of art as you hunt for clues, and travel to places you may never have imagined! Available in English and Spanish.

Welcome winter with an activity you can do at home—the classic paper snowflake, with a twist! HRM educators will show you how to make a perfect hexagonal snowflake, the kind formed by water ice on Earth, as well as a square snowflake, the kind formed by carbon dioxide ice on Mars. For a real challenge,

Our Gilded Age home, Glenview, aglow for the season, welcomes two of New York City’s holiday entertainment favorites! We invite you to enjoy this once-in a-lifetime opportunity to see dancers from NYC’s favorite Holiday Show, Alejandra Matos, LaTarika Pierce, and Megan Garcia, who perform dance numbers choreographed exclusively for the HRM. They will be joined

Join the father and daughter who go owling for the first time on a cold winter’s night in this 1987 classic, Caldecott Medal–winning story, by Jane Yolen, illustrated by John Schoenherr. Along their way, they encounter a great horned owl. Enjoy this story about a child’s companionship with a parent, about our relationship to nature,

Be inspired by the exhibit Landscape and Virtual Travel and celebrate the holiday season by creating a winter landscape of your own in clay and mixed media. Supplies required: modeling clay and other art and/or recycled materials.   Sponsored by Con Edison.

…Garden of the Divine Feminine, 2020. Tempera paint, spray paint, and mixed media. Commissioned for this exhibition by the Hudson River Museum. Supported in part by ArtsWestchester. Photo: Steve Paneccasio….