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Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition
Travel around the world with Plato to learn about building healthy meals. Eat avocado toast in Australia, baobab fruit in Benin, and sautéed reindeer in Finland! Yum! Pick your favorite plates for morning, midday, and evening meals. Be sure to meet your daily nutritional needs while not going over your budget!
Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition is an educational nutrition game that will help teach students about building healthy meals while using nutritional guidelines from countries around the world!
Read MoreKovetous Kobolds
A 2-4 player versus game designed to have an arcade-style feel. It uses a real-time combat system with grid-based movement for unique, fast-paced, and frantic gameplay.
Read MoreIndiepocalypse
Indiepocalypse is a monthly indie game collection bringing together a wide variety of games to showcase to breadth of what indie games can be. The games are playable through a launcher and the collection also includes a companion zine about each game as well as comics and other features.
Read MoreGnome Adventure: Journey to the Market
Gnome Adventure is a narrative Game Boy game that tests the morality of your decisions as you quest to make the best birthday cake. Will you mug that child for a few extra cents? Or will you go through your adventure with kindness?
Read MoreDark Swords
Dark Swords gather some of the most better features that defines the 16-bits era games like Ninja Gaiden, Megaman, Zelda, Super Metroid and Ghost and Goblins, along with a beautiful pixel art graphics and modern gameplay with unique story.
Read MoreARTstrology: Libra
September 23 – October 22
Bea Nettles. Bridge, 1984. Dye transfer print. Gift of the artist 2011.27
As a Libra, you love building bridges to make sure everyone is happy. Your peacemaking often means you don’t like confrontation, but try putting your foot down every once in a while. You never know what good could come from it!
Read MoreARTstrology: Virgo
August 23 – September 22
René Magritte. Les pas perdus (The Wasted Footsteps), 1950. Oil on canvas. Purchased with funds from anonymous donors 1966.2
You’re a rock, dear Virgo. Like this stone eagle, you’re always holding steady. Your strength is a huge asset, but don’t be afraid to let your hair down and fly free every once in a while!
Read MoreMuseum Games
Nothing better than enjoying a puzzle on a summer day. Here’s a little brain teaser for your weekend!
Fill in the blanks. Unscramble the circled letters to get the letters for the answer.
Chamberlain’s media _ О _ _
This Sir’s pastime _ О _ _ _
Abode of Ken Price О _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Not just a walk in the park _ _ О _ _
Bread Follower О _ _ _ _
Unscramble the words. The bold letters, when unscrambled, are the two-word answer.
BPARIUNSTH
INGDWAR
HECTKS
KORTWRA
DECASLNAD
EAMRF
EDY
ANSWER:
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
Art Adventures Mad Libs
You can play AAM mad libs with your friends or by yourself. Here’s how to play: Creatively fill in the list on the next page with whatever words you like, then transfer your list to the blanks in the story. Finally, read the story from start to finish and enjoy your silly creation! Be sure not to peek at the story until you’ve chosen all of the words to complete it.
Helpful Reminders!
Adjective: Describes things or people
Examples: crazy, short, annoying, messy, fluffy, brave
Noun: Person, place, or thing
Examples: cell phone, spider, home, father
Action Verb: An action
Examples: run, kick, hunt, jump, swim
Verb Ending in “ing”: An action in the present
Examples: running, kicking, hunting, jumping, swimming
Past Tense Action Verb: An action that happened in the past
Examples: ran, kicked, hunted, jumped, swam
Exclamation/Interjection: Expresses a strong emotion
Examples: Oww!, Wow!, Yay!, Yikes!
ARTstrology: Leo
July 23 — August 22
David Zeldis. Fireworks, c. 1983-1984. Colored pencil on paper. Museum Acquisition Fund 2002.29
Baby, you’re a firework! Leos are the life of the party and you’re always bringing a little extra color, zing, and pop to the world. But partiers beware! Remember to leave room for those around you to shine as bright as you!
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