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Kids Explore: STUCK! The LaBrea Tar Pits

Grades K-5, Registration Required
2025-12-11 16:00:00 2025-12-11 16:45:00 America/Chicago Kids Explore: STUCK! The LaBrea Tar Pits At the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California, Ice Age fossils can be found in bubbling asphalt pits. Let's read about this living museum & make Ice Age shadow puppets. Registration required. Main Library - Story Room

Thursday, December 11
4:00pm - 4:45pm

Add to Calendar 2025-12-11 16:00:00 2025-12-11 16:45:00 America/Chicago Kids Explore: STUCK! The LaBrea Tar Pits At the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California, Ice Age fossils can be found in bubbling asphalt pits. Let's read about this living museum & make Ice Age shadow puppets. Registration required. Main Library - Story Room

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At the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California, Ice Age fossils can be found in bubbling asphalt pits. Let's read about this living museum & make Ice Age shadow puppets. Registration required.

Registration for this program begins October 15, 2025. Please register each child SEPARATELY. 

Have you ever visited a place where sticky, black tar oozes up from the ground? This happens at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California.  Over thousands of years, animals got stuck in the tar and their bones were preserved, making this a great place to learn about Ice Age critters that lived long ago.  Let's read about this crazy living museum and make Ice Age shadow puppets. 

Please note: This program will take place in the Story Room (the door with the "book windows" in the KidSpace hallway).

For a list of possible books that we may use in this program, click here. 

If you register but later are unable to attend the event, please call 847-429-4685 to cancel as soon as possible. This allows a student on the wait list to join the event with adequate notice. We will be taking attendance at the programs, and staff members reserve the right to move a registrant to the wait list if they are found to be consistently absent from programs. 

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