Fossil Finders: Fossil Fashion

Enjoy fossilized fun at five drop-in stations designed for young learners ages 3–8. Hold fossils and casts at the touch table, make scientific discoveries in the dig pit, create a craft to take home, and collect a new stamp each month in your Fossil Finders Passport.

Happy Halloween! Bring your costume from home or make costume crafts at the Burke. Transform into a T. rex, become a beautiful ancient flower, make-believe you’re a mysterious sea creature — there are millions of years and millions of organisms to inspire you! Take a picture in the photo booth, then visit the touch table station to learn about horns, teeth, spikes, frills and more.

Show off your fossil fashion in the photo booth

Visit the touch table station to learn about horns, teeth, spikes, frills and other fashionable fossils!

Learn about spectacular skeletons during story times at 10:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.

Discover tiny terrors at the DIG microfossil sorting station

Chat with members of the Northwest Paleontological Association and meet “Judith” the Spiclypeus shipporum dinosaur.