Museum Scavenger Hunt
Directions:
If you're looking for ways to make museum trips more exciting for your kids, give this activity a try.
First, stop by the information desk and pick up any maps and brochures about the exhibition. Before you set off on the tour, sit down for a moment, look over the materials, and devise a list of five to ten very specific things to hunt for. In a natural-history museum, these could include the T-rex skull, the Atlantic puffin, the trilobite diorama, gypsum needles, and the Audubon print of a giant egret; in an art museum, the list could include a painting of a vase of flowers and a pair of gloves on a table, a sculpture of a child with a bird, a mask from the Aleutian Eskimos, a small gold Mayan figure, a round fan, or "uchiwa," from Japan, and a sculpture of a ballerina with a real net skirt.
Once you've compiled your list, set off for the museum. You can either work together to find all of the items, or you can break into teams with specific assignments.
Perhaps you'll even find a painting of the man who looks like Uncle Fred!
© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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