Your Gift Just Doubled — Here’s How
Your gift could help fund new museum art, updated exhibits, and more — and right now, it's matched dollar-for-dollar through September 17.
Play is Serious Business
When your child is building a blanket fort or running a pretend restaurant, they're not taking a break from learning — that IS the learning. A few simple ways to lean into it at home.
Calling All Kidpreneurs! Sell Your Creations at the Bois d’Arc Bash.
Got a young artist, baker, or inventor at home? Sign them up for the Kidpreneur Marketplace at the Bois d'Arc Bash on September 26 — a real kids' business market, free to join, with registration open through September 18.
The Science Behind the Play: What Research Says about How Children Really Learn
Play looks like fun – and it is. But research from the American Academy of Pediatrics and child development researchers shows it's also how young children build the cognitive and social skills that carry them through life.
Featured in Voyage Dallas: Meet Our Executive Director
After twenty years in public education, Rachel Bounds made an unexpected pivot: Executive Director of the Northeast Texas Children's Museum. In this Voyage Dallas Magazine interview, she talks about that leap, the museum's decades-long road to its permanent home, and the advice she'd give anyone building something worth the wait.