Fox Chapel Herald
Join us for Remake Learning Days, a celebration of innovative learning! At this festival, you can make, code, play and tinker at many learning spaces like schools, libraries, museums, outdoor play spaces, and more. Between May 1-23, 2025, there will be many free events across southwestern PA, including 40 events in Fox Chapel. Learn more about these great events in your own backyard:
Operation Soft Landing: Egg Drop Challenge
May 1, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm (EST)
NLA's Remake Learning "Operation Soft Landing: Egg Drop Challenge" event will allow students to engineer a protective device to prevent an egg from cracking when being dropped.
Remake Learning Day: Solar Race Car
May 3, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm (EST)
A tech kit from Brown Dog Gadgets teaches kids about engineering, science, and art. Let’s have some fast-paced fun by building your own solar race car.
Flower Power Hours – Family Drop In
May 3, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (EST)
Families can drop in to the Library’s community room to celebrate May flowers with various art and science activities. Free and open to all ages. Young children should be accompanied by adult.
Kids Club – LEGO Building Challenge
May 6, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (EST)
Use LEGOs to complete a building challenge in this program that will help childen build fine motor skills and develop their problem solving skills and ability to interpret instructions.
Make-n-Take: Take Apart Day (Remake Learning)
May 6, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm (EST)
We'll take apart a variety of different, broken technology and explore what's inside and how they work.
Wear Your Creativity: Fashion for All Abilities
May 7, 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm (EST)
"Wear Your Creativity: Fashion for All Abilities" is an inclusive, hands-on event where students of all abilities design and create custom hats, shirts, and hoodies using a laser engraver, screen printer, and embroidery machine to express their unique styles.
Discover Scuba Kingsley Center: Exploring Marine Science & STEM Careers
May 7, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm (EST)
Dive into marine science with our Discover Scuba experience! Teens (14-18) will explore the science of scuba diving, learn about marine careers, & discover STEM fields like oceanography & underwater robotics. Sign up to try scuba & explore exciting careers beneath the waves!
May 7, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm (EST)
Join us in learning about Girih tiles and how Islamic cultures created the nonrepeating patterns used in these tiles hundreds of years before modern mathematicians.
Bilingual Storytime: A Celebration of Tamil
May 8, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (EST)
Come celebrate and learn about the Tamil culture and Pongal holiday through a bilingual story time event including dancing, art, crafts, and fun!
How to STEM-ify Your Lessons with Mad Science
May 8, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm (EST)
Join us on an exploration into the wonderful world of Mad Science! We'll explore hands-on ways to bring STEM into your K-3 classroom.
Relax and Unwind Before the Pre-test Climb
May 9, 2025 @ 3:30 pm - 7:00 pm (EST)
Engage in exciting art projects that foster communication, teamwork, planning, and organizing, with a focus on having a "finished product" at the end.
May 9, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm (EST)
Get ready to have a blast at the International Learning Party! Make & create learning about STEAM through the cultures of your neighbors!
Green Roots Sustainability Fair
May 9, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm (EST)
Community festival to celebrate sustainability at ECS
REMAKE Learning Days: Warhol Art Making Event
May 10, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm (EST)
Come out to the Homewood Early Learning HUB & Family Center for an all-ages hands-on event. Families can silk screen, make souvenirs, and learn about Warhol’s work as part of the HUB & Family Center's Remake Learning Days event!
May 10, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm (EST)
Join us for a day of family-friendly fun and hands-on activities!
Rejuvenate Educators & the Classroom with WQED and Open Up
May 10, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (EST)
Learn practical skills to attend to your social emotional wellbeing as an educator and helping your students self-regulate alongside you in the classroom.
May 10, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm (EST)
Paired with their colossal celebration of all things clay, Union Project presents a free, creative, and thought-provoking hands-on activity for all ages, exploring the art of clay.
Leap Into Action with Attack Theatre
May 10, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (EST)
Let’s Leap into Action in Attack Theatre’s creative movement workshop! Rooted in curiosity and imagination, this workshop will invite participants to experience the joy and creativity of dance and movement. Recommended for ages 6-12, families welcome!
Kids Club – Seeds and Gardening
May 10, 2025 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm (EST)
Build your curiosity about seeds, plants, and gardens with a hands-on investigation.
World Migratory Bird Day at Frick Environmental Center
May 10, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm (EST)
Join us at Frick Environmental Center to celebrate World Migratory Bird Day! We'll have multiple bird hikes (including accessible birding), family-friendly activities, story time, garden planting, and more. Come learn about how migratory birds are part of our Pittsburgh community!
May 15, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm (EST)
Celebrate with us at the SWPA Arts Ed Expo and artlook® SWPA relaunch! This event is perfect for district and school leaders, teachers, arts and culture organization staff, teaching artists, and funders.
Teen Time – Paper Roller Coasters
May 15, 2025 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm (EST)
Come and use your engineering skills to build a roller coaster entirely out of paper and tape.
May 16, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (EST)
Choose your own adventure at our Lawrenceville Clubhouse Arts Fest and find a station that helps you to express your talents & feelings!
Remake Learning Days at The Frick
May 17, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm (EST)
Join us for a day filled with artmaking, history, movement, and conversation during Remake Learning at The Frick!
May 17, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (EST)
Color Me Beautiful is a vibrant, hands-on experience where participants of all ages can relax, explore their creativity, and craft unique tie-dye designs using natural dyes.
May 17, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm (EST)
Join Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media Papermaker/Teaching Artist Katy DeMent to create your own unique archival collage without glue!
May 17, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm (EST)
Join us for an interactive event celebrating Black business pioneers! Kids will explore haircare science, design sneakers or dresses, and create their own imaginary ice cream flavors using scents and colors—all while learning about the impact of Black entrepreneurs.
Reimagined Recycling Open House
May 18, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm (EST)
Join us at Reimagined Recycling's studio for an afternoon of turning single-use plastics into reusable items through craft and art making!
May 19, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm (EST)
Step into the Mad Science Lab and experience the excitement of hands-on science!
May 20, 2025 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm (EST)
Join us in exploring stop-motion animation through gekimation--a type of Japanese animation.
Wilkinsburg School District STEAM Night
May 21, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm (EST)
Join us for an evening of fun STEAM activities, displays of projects students have worked on throughout the year, and presentations from our art and foreign language departments.
May 22, 2025 @ 3:05 pm - 4:30 pm (EST)
Calling all Verner students who like fun Math, Engineering and Coding activities!
HCV Community Schools presents: Village Game Night
May 22, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm (EST)
Join us for Village Game Night, where fun meets learning through exciting games that build teamwork, problem-solving, and creativity for all ages!
May 22, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm (EST)
STEAM Night is a fun time for families to engage with local organizations in science, technology, engineering, art, and math related events.
Kindness Grows Here: Shaler Area 143 Day of Kindness Event
May 22, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm (EST)
Join us for the 4th Annual 143 Day of Kindness: Kindness Grows Here, a celebration of kindness and belonging inspired by Fred Rogers. This K-12 event empowers students to spread kindness through interactive activities, fostering a more caring and connected community!
May 23, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm (EST)
Get Set create, art, science and math fun.
Family Hike en el Bosque con La Escuelita Arcoiris
May 28, 2025 @ 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm (EST)
Please join La Escuelita Arcoiris’ educators and families for a bilingual stroll through Frick park. * Únase a los educadores y familias de La Escuelita Arcoiris para un paseo bilingüe por Frick Park.
May 1, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm (EST)
We invite you to learn a variety of maker technologies from circuitry to 3D art together at the library in our weekly Make Together Lab where creativity and innovation rule!
Squonking @ Penn Hills Library
May 5, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm (EST)
Join Squonk as we enter the world of sound effects!
May 8, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm (EST)
Students will present a booth-style showcase to parents and families in which they present projects that they have completed in class or create projects in real time using the skills they have learned.
To learn more about Remake Learning Days and the 200 fun and FREE events across southwestern PA, visit us at https://remakelearningdays.org/southwesternpa/. Families with kids of all ages can easily find hands-on learning activities. Build robots, create art, try new technology, enjoy outdoor learning and more. You can filter events by recommended age, learning themes (arts, maker, science, tech, outdoor learning and youth voice), date and cost. (The majority of events are free!) Students can also earn a Career Ready PA badge from the PA Department of Education at select events. Let’s explore, wonder and learn together.
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