Tuesday, April 21, 2009



This past Sunday I took my kids to the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. I have an Art project to do for one of my classes that includes a research paper on a piece of artwork so I thought the kids would have fun if they came along. When I looked at the Amon Carter website before we left I saw that they were having a Family Fun day Sunday that day also, although I had no idea what was involved in a family fun day I thought that surely that would just make it better for the kids! So when we got there they gave each of the kids a brown paper sack for them to put their artwork in and off they went...they had mobiles that the kids could make, picture frames for them to decorate, a jewelry table and a place where the could decorate sacks. They even had a snack table with free cookies and lemonade. Nicholas made about 6 trips to the snack table and this time he came back with 7 cookies!!! In this picture I had just given him my greatest 'mommy is getting embarrassed because you've eaten about 27 cookies' look, and he's saying "WHAT!?!?"..... They all had a blast though and at the end of a nearly four hour trip to the museum I had my painting chosen for my class, and the kiddos had three brown paper sacks full of artwork that they had done by themselves. And the best part? It was completely 100% free fun! Amon Carter doesn't charge any admission and there were no charges for the crafts. Or the 27 cookies....













4 comments:

  1. OMGosh! We go there all the time. It is Target Family Fun Days and they do one each weekend at different museums around town and they are always free!

    We were supposed to go Sunday but we were all wiped from haning out at Main Street the day before. Bummer!

    Glad ya'll had fun and maybe we'll see you next month :>

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  2. Thanks so much for writing this wonderful post! I am so glad that you and your family had a great time at the Amon Carter Museum's Family Funday.

    We used to have Target Family Fun Days once a month, now we have moved to offering Family Fundays every few months. Our next one will take place on August 9th. We hope to see you there!

    Nora Puckett
    Student, Family, and Adult Program Manager
    Amon Carter Museum

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  3. Oops! I forgot to mention in my previous comment that our Family Fundays are now made possible through Alcon.

    Nora Puckett

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