University Kaleidoscope to Offer Children’s Science, Sports Events

Cal State Long Beach will present its fifth annual Kaleidoscope festival and open house from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The festival will feature a variety of children’s activities in science, art, music and sports.

A mobile science museum will provide a “touch tank” allowing participants to handle a variety of sea animals such as starfish and sea slugs. There also will be viewing tanks with crabs, lobsters, turtles and tarantulas. Children may pet Henrietta, a 14-foot python, or have their picture taken with an iguana.

The Old-Fashioned 49er Barnyard will have chickens, rabbits, goats and other farm animals and an aviary. There will be musical activities near the barnyard for children age 10 and younger.

The chemical engineering department will sponsor a wizard show illustrating chemical reactions by students dressed in wizard costumes.

For budding young artists, there will be “Make Your Mark” hands-on art projects, featuring a wall mural to be colored by children with Crayola markers, and paper sculpting demonstrations. Both events will be sponsored by the University Art Museum. Ceramics Guild members will operate a booth at which children can form clay on a potter’s wheel.

Head basketball Coaches Joan Bonvicini and Seth Greenberg will present free basketball clinics from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., teaching fundamentals of the game to children ages 6 to 15.

ROTC students will offer camouflage face-painting, a rope bridge and military parade to be held at 10 a.m. beginning at the football field and proceeding through the campus.

A Kaleido-Carnival, sponsored by the Associated Students, will feature clowns, a dunk tank and arcade games.