GLAZER MUSEUM AT-HOME FUN Images courtesy Glazer Children's Museum
The Glazer Children’s Museum can be a source of fun and learning for your family even while you’re at home. The museum recently launched GCM@ Home, a virtual learning platform packed with science experiments, recipes, art projects and so much more. We asked the team at GCM to tell us their favorite at-home activities and they gave us some great ones. Try these at home and don’t forget to share your creation by tagging the Glazer Children’s Museum on social media with #GCMatHome.
Happy 10th Anniversary to Glazer Children's Museum!
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TampaBayParenting.com SEPTEMBER 2020
Cave painting with Ashley Williams, Field Trip Educator Cave paintings can be found all over the world, even in your own home— with a little imagination, of course. Some cave paintings are over 35,000 years old, created during the Paleolithic time period when our ancestors lived in caves and first started making tools out of stone. Some of the most familiar cave paintings are found in France in the Lascaux Caves (you can help your kiddos find images of this cave online). Early artists painted different animals they may have seen and used their hands as stencils. HERE’S HOW YOUR LITTLE ONES CAN CHANNEL THEIR INNER CAVE PAINTERS: 1. Gather your materials: crayons, markers, colored pencils and paper. You can even make your own paint by mixing different spices found at home with water. Use any paper you have; I used the inside of a brown paper grocery bag so that my art looks more like it was created on a cave wall. 2. Find a place to create! Your little ones can create a blanket fort cave, sit under a table, or anywhere they feel comfortable. 3. Create! Show your children how to use their hands as stencils like the early cave painters to make animals. 4. Hang up the artwork in your cave!
