Programs are designed for children ages 4 and up and include storytelling, observation, and hands-on activities in the galleries. Spanish and English While exploring a landscape painting and reading the story The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry, children will take an imaginary journey to South America and discover the richness and diversity of the Amazon rain forest. Children will then create a travel journal using recycled materials. In this program children will explore how artists use color and line to create a mood or evoke an emotion. That Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis, children will create a work of art using vivid color and expressive line.
Space is limited.
Please arrive fifteen minutes before the program. Discover how one young girl plants a small flower garden in a window box for her mother's birthday in The Flower Garden by Eve Bunting. After viewing a painting filled with fragrant flora, children will decorate their own unique garden container. Flower seeds will be provided. Then, listen to The Emperor and the Kite by Jane Yolen, a tender tale about a princess who flies her kite high in the sky to rescue her father.