Preparing kids for museum and gallery trips
A bit of advance preparation before a museum, gallery or city vist can make all the difference to how your kids react. Just turning up at an art gallery and walking through rooms of paintings is not the best way to do it. Take 3 famous paintings that are on show at your local gallery. Pin them on the kitchen wall. Find out about the artist who painted them and tell your kids the story.
We do this with our short educational movies about Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Goya, Leonardo da Vinci and Gainsborough. Rembrandt actually went to see the doctors cutting open a dead body to prepare his picture and your kids can imagine the sight, the smell and the sound of that gory business.
Darwin’s fossils? B-O-R-I-N-G, your kids might think. But no! Not if you’ve watched our movie about Darwin’s life, his huge trip on the Beagle, riding on giant turtles and getting seasick. He found lots of interesting stuff in the countries he visited and he carefully sent them all home to England – where you can see them. Amazing! And those fossils are part of what led him to his theory of evolution.
All this stuff is interesting – you’ve just got to deliver it in a fun and appealing way.
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