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Our main seasonal event - not an uncommon one, I suspect, is a Halloween
party for members. It's pretty popular.

The kids come in costume. We have a few Halloween-y activities, like a
haunted house/room, face painting, some creepy crafts, a scavenger hunt with
candy prizes. Plus we do some spooky variations on our usual schtick: we
have a Halloween laser show, some creepy demos, we take out the more
Halloween-ish animals from our collection (owls, spiders...) You know that
game where you guess the number of X in a jar? Works great if you have a
large collection of live hissing cockroaches.

We've also used a trick from Penn & Teller's book "How to Play in Traffic"
that lets you use a Polaroid camera to take photos of ghosts. Oddly, the
rest of the staff vetoed my idea for another P&T trick: one that lets you
fake having bitten into an apple spiked with razor blades.

Jonah Cohen
Outreach & Public Programs Manager
Science Center of Connecticut

"If you hear only one song this year, there's something terribly wrong with
you."
    -They Might Be Giants

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From: Eric Siegel [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:45 AM
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Subject: Seasonal Programs

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Hello, all:

I would be grateful if people would be willing to share their ideas for 
successful seasonal program.  Zoos do zoo lights, botanical gardens do 
holiday conservatory shows.  What has worked for you all around 
halloween, xmas, pass-easter-over, etc?  Thanks in advance.

Eric Siegel
Executive VP
    Programs and Planning
NY Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street
Queens, NY 11368
www.nyscience.org

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