Fall Break Camps 2025
REAL Fossils, REAL Scientists, REAL Idaho
We are excited to offer a variety of activities during Pocatello/Chubbuck School District 25's fall break, October 2 and 3, 2025. Price includes all supplies, materials, and transportation. Lunch will not be provided by the Museum.
Space is limited and registration is required, no same day registration.
Museum Members received a 10% discount. If you did not receive your discount code please email ambertews@isu.edu
Story & Natural History Art
October 2, 2025
9 to 10:45 am, 12 to 1:45 pm, or 2 to 3:45 pm
Ages 5-9
$26.50
Have your young learners come an enjoy story time at the museum, and take home a fun craft! They will be enjoy a story time in our cozy reading nook in the museum gallery, surrounded by dinosaur fossils, and then work on an engaging craft related to what they have learned from the story. This is a great way to have your learner get to stretch their brain and their artistic side at the same time!
Registration is required. Museum Members receive a 10% discount, need a code email ambertews@isu.edu
Skull-o-Lantern
October 2 - 3, 2025
9 am to 12 pm
Ages: 10+
$126.50
Are you fascinated by 3D printing and modeling? Do you know how these technologies are used to make dinosaur exhibits? The Skull-O-Lantern Camp (two morning sessions) offers you the opportunity to create your own museum-worthy exhibit for your home! You will be able to mount a 3D printed skull of our state dinosaur, Oryctodromeus, and learn real museum mounting techniques that you can use in a future museum career. You’ll also be able to paint your dinosaur skull; learn realistic painting techniques or make it wild and colorful.
Registration is required. Members receive a 10% discount code, if you didn't get your discount code please email ambertews@isu.edu.
Fall Colors Camp
Oct. 2nd or 3rd
1 to 4 pm
Ages 10+
$66
Celebrate fall colors with our bona-fide museum botanist! Pressing plants is a fun hobby that also provides real, important data for scientists. Tour our herbarium and spend the day mounting plants while flexing your creative muscles. You'll take your creations home at the end of the workshop.
Registration is required. Members receive a 10% discount, if you need your code please email ambertews@isu.edu
Paint-a-Critter
October 3, 2025
9 am to 12 pm
Ages 5-9
$27.50
Want your young ones to experience the wonder and excitement of a museum, and create a fun, hand-made toy at the same time? Join us for Paint-A-Critter! From 9 am to 12 pm, participants will get a tour of the museum, a lesson about the ancient animal they are painting, and will paint and take home a fun rendition of one of Idaho’s iconic prehistoric critters.
Registration is required. Members receive a 10% discount, if you need your code please email ambertews@isu.edu
Botany Builders
October 3, 2025
1 to 4 pm
Ages 5-9
$57
Let your young ones express their inner florist in this plant-themed afternoon arts and crafts class. Your learner will make felt plants of their choice, which they can take home at the end of the workshop.
Registration is required. Members receive a 10% discount, need a code email ambertews@isu.edu
Learn Fossil Preparation
October 3, 2025
9 am to 4 pm
Ages 14+
$70
This one-day class is designed to teach teens and adults the basics of preparing fossils in a museum laboratory setting. Participants will receive a tour of the museum and collections and direct, hands-on instruction in our paleontology lab on real fossils. Participants will also learn about volunteer opportunities at the museum if they would like to continue their training and prepare more fossils at the IMNH. Spaces are exceptionally limited due to the size of the lab.
Registration is required. Members receive a 10% discount, need a code email ambertews@isu.edu