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Discovery Design Time

This week’s Discovery Design Time gets moving with Monster Dancers, a Monsters in the Museum-themed session exploring kinetic motion through engineering. Guests will discover Newton’s third law in action — every push or pull has an equal and opposite reaction — and put that concept to work building their very own dancing monster.

Guests will engineer a rubber band-powered wheel from bottle caps, then attach it to a decorated paper cup body to bring their monster to life. Along the way, they’ll test, adjust, and troubleshoot their designs just like real engineers, discovering how elasticity and rolling motion combine to create movement. Once the mechanics are set, guests can decorate their monster with horns, eyeballs, stripes, and more.

Guests will build new vocabulary like kinetic, design, and engineering, while exploring the physics of motion through hands-on creativity.

Discovery Design Time is a weekly program held every Thursday at Discovery Center at Murfree Spring — each session features a new theme and activity, so guests can join again and again for a fresh hands-on art experience.

📅 Date: October 1, 2026
🎨 Theme: Monsters in the Museum
📍 Discovery Center at Murfree Spring, Murfreesboro, TN

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