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  • Desi Smith/Gloucester Daily Times Some children play with Legos while adults relax with a cup of tea or coffee and watch their kids play. Desi Smith/Gloucester Daily Times

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  • Desi Smith/Gloucester Daily Times. Len Burgess of Essex helps his grandson Brant Burgess make a race car out of Legos. Desi Smith/Gloucester Daily Times.

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  • Desi Smith/Gloucester Daily Times Liam Virden 4, looks over the cover of a Lego box with Luke Renz,i 5, to see how well they did in recreating the project. Desi Smith/Gloucester Daily Times

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  • Liam Virden 4, of Essex looks over his Buzz Lightyear creation that he made fron some Legos Wednesday afternoon at the Essex Ship Building Museum's Orientation Center.

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  • Oliver Bazdar, 2, of Rockport looks to Arianna Richards, 13 months, of Beverly for a crayon for his project as Tamar Richards looks on.

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  • Desi Smith/Gloucester Daily Times photos Above, center, Luke Renzi, 5, shows off his spaceship at the Essex Ship Building Museum's Orientation Center. Parents came with their children to relax with a cup of tea or coffee and watch their kids draw, color, create and build with Legos and other games. Top left, Len Burgess of Essex helps his grandson Brant Burgess make a race car out of Legos. Top, right, Liam Virden 4, of Essex looks over the Buzz Lightyear creation he made from Legos Wednesday afternoon. Desi Smith/Gloucester Daily Times photos

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  • Desi Smith/Gloucester Daily Times Olivia Renzi, 9, colors a print of a schooner created by artist Nancy Marculewicz. Desi Smith/Gloucester Daily Times

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  • Children play with Legos at the museum. With the turnout, more Wednesday play times may be added. Feb. 27 is the last scheduled one.

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February 22, 2013

Tea and toys

Recipe a success for Shipbuilding Museum

By Times Staff Gloucester Daily Times

ESSEX — They’re things you wouldn’t think would mix — tea and Legos — but it’s proving a successful recipe for relaxation when mixing adults and children together.

This Wednesday, during school vacation week on Cape Ann, the Essex Ship Building Museum offered its first “Legos and Tea” program in its Orientation Center at 66 Main St.

Every Wednesday through March 27, from 3 to 5 p.m., the museum is inviting adults to take a break and relax with a cup of tea or coffee and watch their children build with Legos, draw, color, create, and just plain play with games.

A museum spokesman said this Wednesday’s event was so popular, with a bigger turnout than expected, that the program may be extended past March 27.

The museum is closed for the winter, but open for tours and special events, of which this is one. It will hold a special boat building class for adolescents in April during spring break; details on the class are available by emailing education@essexshipbuilding.org or calling 978-768-6441.

The “Tea and Legos” program is free, but may canceled for extremely bad weather. For more information, contact the museum at 978-768-6441 or 978-768-7541 during program hours.

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