Dec 18, 2020 Activities & Education Welcome to Virtual Winter Break Wonders! As school winds down for the holidays, we’ve collected activities for your family to make memories over winter break with artmaking activities and museum-inspired fun. Enjoy At-Home Art Activities Make art inspired by the winter season and the Crystal Bridges collection with these artmaking projects from our museum art educators. Color Your Favorite Crystal Bridges Artwork Coloring pages of Maxfield Parrish, The Lantern Bearers (1908) and Joan Brown, Self-Portrait with Fish and Cat (1970). Color your own American masterwork! We’ve taken several artworks from the Crystal Bridges collection and turned them into coloring pages for you to enjoy. All available pages can be downloaded in the link provided. Create with Studio at Home Videos Join our museum educators in their home studios to learn creative artmaking inspired by artworks in the Crystal Bridges collection. Enjoy a Piano Concert Van Cliburn Concert Put on some tunes in the background while you work on your act activities! Treat yourself to soothing piano music from renowned national and local pianists in these videos from our first-ever digital Van Cliburn Concert Series. Pick Up a Free Create Together Kit at Crystal Bridges Photo by Ironside Photography / Stephen Ironside. Stop by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Drop in and pick up a Create Together Kit, or hang out and explore the museum with a scavenger hunt. If you plan to stay for a visit, free timed-entry tickets are required. Admission is still free for all, but please reserve your tickets to help us maintain proper social distancing at the museum. Watch Hamish the Cat Visits the Museum In this animated video book, we learn about a curious cat who finds out what there is to see on a trip to Crystal Bridges. This video is the perfect introduction for young students who are learning about art and art museums for the first time.
