Last month we had a great time attending our first Family Day at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens. The theme for the month was exploring color. Each kid got an activity sheet and a pencil. Soon Eli was wandering through the galleries looking for the first piece of artwork of a treasure hunt.
There were questions about how various artists used color and Eli worked diligently to spell each word of his answers. All through the museum there were kids pointing and pondering and discussing art with their parents.
As somebody with two degrees in Art Education, it made me happy to see!
There were also hands-on stations scattered throughout the galleries.
Brilliant! Eli loved leafing through color swatches or seeing the world turn colors through sheets of plastic.
After he was all finished with his activity sheet, Eli got a button to wear
on his shirt and then joined other kids downstairs doing an art project.
The kiddos cut pieces of thin colored plastic and placed them on a rectangle of clear contact paper. Once they had their design the way they wanted it, another rectangle of contact paper sandwiched their work and this was placed in a paper frame. Eli's finished piece looks lovely in our kitchen window.
One Mama's Two Cents:
We had a great time at the free Family Day. I always mean to take Eli to the art museum more than I do, and this was a great way to have a fun and meaningful experience that didn't last too long or require too much listening. Families can go at their own pace and we stayed about an hour. Family Days are on Saturday mornings once a month. You may wish to go early as it seems to get more crowded as the day goes on!
Click HERE for more information on GMA's Family Days.
Click HERE for another blog post about visiting GMA.
When we got home, we broke out Eli's Learning Resources brand Color Mixing Glasses. If you haven't seen these things, they are really fun and help teach color mixing. The glasses have two slots for slide-in plastic lenses. Kids can mix the three primary colors -- red, blue, and yellow to create the other colors on the color wheel. There is also a pair of clear "prism lenses" that give the world a kaleidoscope effect.
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