Real quick, I will say this about it - it's a real art museum with big open galleries of blank white walls with the original artwork very precisely lined up at an adult's eye level, and a square bench in the center of the room. There is a library of children's books, an art studio, and an auditorium separate from the galleries, which were great. But I probably won't go there with our kids again unless we're going to an event.
The book festival was themed around fairies. There were some book signings, but obviously I'm not up on my fairies outside of Disney characters because I didn't recognize any of the authors. There were activities all over the place - reading time and coloring pages in the library, making a little fairy craft in the lobby, dress-ups and a photo spot, an art project in the studio making flower gardens out of miscellaneous things (wire, buttons, lots of different papers, etc), and a puppet show in the auditorium. We spent a lot of time on the patio outside making fairy houses out of bark, dried flowers, rocks, moss, and other outdoor items. Birdie's "house" was a bunch of seashells glued to a piece of bark. They asked that the kids leave their fairy houses there to be part of a big fairy village in and under the trees. It looked pretty cool.
Making little fairies with pipe cleaners and wooden beads.
Yes, the fairy dressup pictures are sideways - sorry. My photo editing program won't rotate them for some stupid reason. But I'm putting them here anyway for the grandparents.
Fairy houses!
After the puppet show, the puppeteer let all the kids come up to "meet" the puppets. Our girls were front and center for the conversation.
The girls wrote letters after we went and it's interesting to read their descriptions of the museum. They're a lot different than what I would say - they focused primarily on the puppet show, which quite frankly, I thought was too long and kind of boring. My opinion doesn't matter. I didn't let them put the letters in the envelope until I'd copied them.
Sunny:
On Saturday, we went to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. It was fun. We did all sorts of fairy stuff. I might have seen some fairies while we were having our picnic lunch. We read fairy books. We built fairy houses and left them there to be part of a big fairy village. I put flowers on the top to make a roof, and I put 3 sticks on to hold them up. We also watched a fairy puppet show and got to meet the puppets after the show. There were 3 girl fairies and a boy fairy named Cobweb. Lily, one of the girl fairies, looked after the fairy babies. Blossom was in charge of petals and flowers. Blossom and Cobweb helped Mr. Badger fly to the fairy village so he could dig the foundation for a playground that was for the babies. Each of the fairies, except for Lily because she looked after the babies, had 1 baby. Cobweb's baby was messy but the girls' babies were neat. Mr. Badger wanted to learn to fly and be a fairy, so Cobweb taught him to fly. But he didn't actually fly because he didn't have any wings. They fly with one foot in the air because they don't have wings. That's what the puppeteer told me. Cobweb had forgotten to tell Mr. Badger that! At the end, we met all the puppets and I told Mr. Badger that the thing the fairies left him was cake. Mm mm mm!
Posy:
We made fairy houses, and made fairies out of pipe cleaners and big wooden beads, and read fairy books in the library. There was a book about a fairy child named Alice who lived in a castle. She wasn't really a real fairy at all. I like fairies. We saw a fairy puppet show. After the show, we got to meet the puppets. I got to feed Mr. Badger fake potatoes stuck together in a fake bucket. One of the fairies was a boy, and his name was Cobweb. He had a baby that wore brown like him and was messy. Dewdrop's baby liked to skateboard down the slide. She was really clean, and so was Blossom's baby. Blossom's baby liked to swing on the flowers and a little hammock. The whole thing was fun. We ate pretzels and goldfish on the way home.
Posy letter 2:
We watched a puppet show about fairies and a badger. The badger went to a garden and swiped potatoes. He said, "I love potatoes." Then a fairy named Blossom asked Mr. Badger to dig a place for a playground for the babies. A fairy in brown named Cobweb helped Mr. Badger fly. Lily took care of the crying babies. Dewdrop and Blossom were sisters and they pleaded with Mr. Badger to build a playground. When he was finished, Dewdrop's baby went down the slide on a little red skateboard. Blossom's baby liked to enjoy the flowers while Cobweb's baby splashed in a mud pit.
2 comments:
How delightful. What a great trip.
Thank you for the beautiful fairy pictures. I put them on my computer and rotated them. I can't wait to have more adventures with my fairy princesses.
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