DMA with cousins

Around the end of Sept. we had an awesome outing with our Sorensen cousins
at the DMA family day. They had a free day with a new exhibit for kids
called Spaces. It was about how different perspective produce
different art. We got to build a little cardboard house and Lea put
hers on their display shelfs. Very cool.

They also had this great play house where you could write on walls and play with magnets. One of our cousins wanted to pile all the magnets together, unfortunately it was a horizontal stack.

So we did an experiment to see how many magnets would stick together. 22 magnets before they fell off!

We visited with Arturo (the DMA's puppet mascot) in his nest and heard a story.

The kiddos had a blast in that room.

But my favorite was the cardboard room. It was upstairs and on its last day. Lea liked that there was a play house with little people.

I liked the art. This was my favorite. It inspired me.

So a week or so later Lea and I made pictures using cardboard and string. I remembered the image as a bird cage so we painted, cut, colored and glued to make these pieces.

LEA'S BIRD. The black dot above the bird is the moon. The orange line is him peeing. The orange stick to the right is a broom to clean up the pee. The squares and circles to left are eggs. We talked about if the bird was happy or sad to be in a cage and that some birds need to be free, but Grandma & Grandpa Jones have Bart who lives a very happy life in a cage. But she drew a sad face on her bird. He is unhappy in his cage. But he is singing (see the music notes to the right) about being free to fly. And of course some Tinkerbell stamps to round it all off.

Mine is just a bird in a cage with some circles. Lea signed it for me.
 It was a really fun project to do wtih Lea and I loved that the idea came from something we saw in the museum.