• Tinkering for Tots @ AMNR

    Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources 4087 Smackover Hwy, Smackover, AR, United States

    Our littlest museum visitors can participate in a hands-on, interactive tinkering activity designed with our preschool visitors in mind.

  • Jitterbots @ Museum of Natural Resources

    Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources 4087 Smackover Hwy, Smackover, AR, United States

    Join us as we make and decorate Jitterbots using small motors with batteries.  What will your Jitterbot look like?  What will it do? *Organizations wishing to bring groups of children, please contact the museum in advance for scheduling to ensure that enough materials are available.

  • Outdoor Toys and Games of the 1920s @ Museum of Natural Resources

    Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources 4087 Smackover Hwy, Smackover, AR, United States

    Did you ever wonder what children played with or did for fun during the time of the Oil Boom?  Today, we'll go outside to play some of the games that they enjoyed outdoors.  Expect to see hopscotch and jump rope for sure, and maybe a few other fun things as well! *Organizations wishing to bring […]

  • Let’s Go Fly a Kite!

    Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources 4087 Smackover Hwy, Smackover, AR, United States

    Come make and decorate paper sled kites with us and then we will go fly a kite!

  • Toys and Games from the 1920s

    Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources 4087 Smackover Hwy, Smackover, AR, United States

    Did you every wonder what children played with at different times in history?  Come join us to learn about and play with some of the toys and games that kids enjoyed in the 1920s.

  • Oil Field Park Tour

    Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources 4087 Smackover Hwy, Smackover, AR, United States

    Join us for a guided hike through the oil field park.  As we walk, we'll look at vintage gas pumps and see oil derricks and pump jacks from wooden to modern.  The trail is approximately 1/4 mile and is paved except for 2 wooden bridges.

  • Lego Oil Derrick Challenge

    Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources 4087 Smackover Hwy, Smackover, AR, United States

    How are your Lego skills?  Could you build an oil derrick?  How tall could you make it?  Come show what you could do!

  • The Geology of Oil

    Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources 4087 Smackover Hwy, Smackover, AR, United States

    How are rocks and oil related?  Join us at the museum to learn more about how rocks are related to the process of how oil was formed in south Arkansas.  We will have rock samples for viewing and touching.

  • Oil Field Park Tour

    Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources 4087 Smackover Hwy, Smackover, AR, United States

    Join us for a guided hike through the oil field park.  As we walk, we'll look at vintage gas pumps and see oil derricks and pump jacks from wooden to modern.  The trail is approximately 1/4 mile and is paved except for 2 wooden bridges.

  • A Gathering for Reading the Declaration of Independence

    Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources 4087 Smackover Hwy, Smackover, AR, United States

    Today marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  We'll have a public reading of this foundational document.