Category Archives: Children & Teen

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Jul 14 & 21 at 10am

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Jul 14 & 21 at 10am

Watkins Nature Center at Watkins Park presents a nature-themed puppet show and a chance to meet an animal.

Appropriate for ages 2 to 3, with an adult.

Each session is two Fridays from 10:00 to 10:45am
July 14 & 21, 2023
August 11 & 18, 2023

Watkins Nature Center, Location: 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro MD 20774, Phone: 301-218-6702

Puppet Friends in Storyland: Wanda Woodpecker & Conner Crow

Join us for an interactive lesson with a hands-on activity. Your little one will play, laugh, and dance with their puppet pals while they work on social skills, early literacy development, listening, communication, fine motor skills, attention span, and their creativity!

Come enjoy nature story and craft time with us! Join Wanda Woodpecker and Conner Crow in the month of July as they read you a story about their family, and then join them and a naturalist as they led you through a nature themed craft!

Tickets: $10 for 2 sessions. Click here.

Drama Kids of Bowie at the Bowie CPA, Apr 15

Drama Kids of Bowie at the Bowie CPA, Apr 15

Drama Kids of Bowie and DKI Acting Academy present
12th Annual Spring Production
Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 1:00pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Join Drama Kids of Bowie and DKI Acting Academy as they perform three original productions: PIRATE JOE, BIG MYSTERY AT THE BIG TOP, and THE TRIUMPH OF TREVOR TRUELOVE!

Featuring casts from the following Drama Kids Class Locations: Glenn Dale ES, Tulip Grove ES, and Samuel Ogle MS.

Tickets: $25.00. Click here.

The Joy Gods Return at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 4-11

The Joy Gods Return at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 4-11

2023 Greenbelt Youth Musical
The Joy Gods Return
by Chris Cherry

Saturday, March 4, 7 pm
Sunday, March 5, 3 pm
Saturday, March 11, 2 pm and 7 pm

Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium 15 Crescent Rd.

A year after 9/11, actress Felicity Knox makes a surprise appearance as Iris, the messenger goddess of joy, on the Channel Four morning news. The stunt is meant to publicize the Broadway premiere of her late husband’s retro-musical, The Joy Gods Return, but it blossoms into a campaign of joy that lifts the spirits of the entire city. New York falls in love with Iris, and so does jaded newscaster Brian Banning, whose quest for an exposé
nearly wrecks everything. The Joy Gods Return celebrates the resurgence of joy after isolation and grief. It’s about the return of laughter, music, color, glamour, life – and love. After the hiatus of the pandemic, it’s exactly the show we need.

Tickets: $5; advance sales at (301) 397-2208

Puppet Making Workshop at the Greenbelt Community Center, Jan 8

Puppet Making Workshop at the Greenbelt Community Center, Jan 8

The Artful Afternoon presents:

Puppet-Making Workshop

Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 1pm and 2pm

Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium 15 Crescent Rd.

Make simple hand puppets from easy to find materials with Black Cherry Puppet Theater. All ages welcome. Materials will be provided. The workshop will take place in the Community Center’s ground floor east space; enter by the flag pole. Please dress in comfortable art-making clothing.

This workshop will occur in two shifts, 1pm – 2:00pm and 2pm – 3:00pm. Sign up below to reserve seats for yourself or for a group; please reserve enough “slots” for everyone in your party. Walk-ins also welcome as space allows.

Mask wearing is strongly recommended, but not required. Participants may be seated with other guests.

Free workshop, registration recommended. Sign up here.

Who is Making that Noise? at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Oct 23

Who is Making that Noise? at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Oct 23

Yard Dramas presents:
Who is Making that Noise?
Puppet Show

Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 2 pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Whom can you hear in the Anacostia Watershed? Rabbit, Bear, Wolf, Fox, Vulture, Cricket, Frog, Locust. Using stories from indigenous cultures from around the world as inspiration, and with our imaginations, we discover the rhythms and songs of nature and explore our musical gifts that are part of the living world.

Tickets: $5. Click here.