Family Arts Festival

Our friends joined us for the Family Arts Festival at the BYU Museum of Art a couple of weeks ago.  It was on a Friday morning and was well-attended, though not stress-inducingly crowded.  With this year being the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, all of the activities were National Park-related.  The kids made bird feeders using plastic water bottles, drew and painted animal tracks, learned about and touched stuffed animals from the Bean Museum, learned about real Utahan artifacts from the BYU Museum of Peoples and Cultures, looked at an exhibit of National Park-themed art, created their own constellations, and learned about how to keep yourself and the park protected when you are visiting.

Animal Tracks

Cat spent quite a while trying to upload a FB app onto my busted phone in order to post this
picture with #MPC so that the kids could all get a free arrowhead from the Museum of Peoples and Cultures.
She succeeded and everyone was grateful!   (Ironically, the picture never showed up on FB, but it did on Instagram...?)

Another take.  It's hard to get a picture of 8 kids looking at the camera,
let alone smiling.

Luke was really enamored with the bobcat from the Bean Museum.
They also brought the pelt from a black fox.  Very cool.

Gone Fishin'.

Constellationing.
These boards were really cool - the buttons were sewn onto fabric,
which was then wrapped around a square piece of wood.
The kids just wrapped the white string around the buttons to
show an actual constellation, or create their own.

We put the kids' bird feeders up in the front and back yard and were so excited

to see a bird eating from Luke's bird feeder last week.