Category: Museum Tours and Art Workshops

Dinosaurs at Prairie Fire!

All images courtesy of American Museum of Natural History. On Monday we visited Prairie Fire Museum for the new Dinosaurs exhibit. We began our tour in the Discovery Room, which is a huge favorite with the kids. The kids enjoyed…

Light Painting at Nelson-Atkins

The kids had an awesome workshop at Nelson-Atkins yesterday!  They turned an LED light, a coin-shaped battery, tape, cardboard and decorative paper into wearable circuitry fashion.  Then, they turned that fashion into amazing light art! They started with a collection…

Plains Indians at Nelson-Atkins Museum

photo by Leslie R. Adams and courtesy of the Nelson-Atkins Museum On Thursday the 6th we toured the Plains Indians exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. We saw some beautiful and amazingly detailed works created by Plains Indians artists – from…

Mythical Creatures Art Workshop

On Friday, May 9th, we attended a wonderful art workshop on “Mythical Creatures” at the Nelson-Atkins Museum.  The kids observed dragons in both medieval European culture and Chinese culture, as well as Hindu gods to get an idea of the…