We've done our best to explore what Birmingham has to offer this school year, and I know we've barely skimmed the surface. In May we visited the Birmingham Art Musuem for the first time with two other families from our homeschool group. They have free, docent led children's tours scheduled every week, and they even do it on demand, and will focus the tour on whatever topic you want! The docent was excellent and the children were quite engaged during our tour about animals. We went from early Native North Americans and Mayans...
...all the way to a present day sculptor from Birmingham.
After the tour we spent some time in the children's rooms, where there are various art activities for them (still for free!) like sculpty clay,
... a big touch-screen finger-painting canvas, and several other activities. My little artists loved it. Elsa was really curious about all the other rooms that we didn't see, so I'm sure we'll be coming back for more!
What fun!
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