Nancy Maes

When Carl Berg did his practice teaching in the early '70s, the teacher he worked with was doing a pioneer unit and built a fort in one part of the...

The age-old game of "Cops and Robbers" isn't what it used to be. "It's not car chases and running down the street after criminals anymore," says Kirsten Ellenbogen, who developed...

Youngsters who come to the Chicago Children's Museum on Saturday and Sunday to learn how to juggle from Kevin Adair will first have to forget what they already know. "I...

Recently Jacqui Russell, director of children's programs at the Old Town School of Folk Music, got an idea while she was watching a group of the school's young ukulele students...

When children come to see a program with a variety of excerpts performed by Ballet Chicago, they are given some intellectual leeway. "We show them an array of the art...

When Ald. Ted Mazola decided that it would be a good idea to have prominent civic leaders read to children in Grant Park, he made a bargain with Karen Danczak...

Artist Walter Arnold grew up near the University of Chicago and the campus left a lasting impression. "I used to look at all those old buildings and by the age...

While bats won't return to the Lincoln Park Zoo until 1995, when the Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House is scheduled to open, bats can currently be seen at Brookfield Zoo. Visitors...

There is a new Earth Day dawning in Chicago this spring. Earth Day Chicago, founded in 1989, is merging with the international organization called United Earth, which is headed by...

Paula Person, founder of a program called The Children`s Spoon, which teaches social manners to young people, collects books on tea. She knows all about the aromatic beverage and about...