How Do You Define Health?
On Saturday, March 22, we will be celebrating our annual Healthy Kids Festival. In the event, the museum visitors will learn about health and healthcare through various fun activities. While I…
Creative Confidence – Idea 9 – Humility
Creative Confidence – Idea 9 – Humility Having creative confidence is trusting and valuing each and every one of your ideas and taking creative risks. In the Art Studio this…
Sometimes You Just Get Lucky
Trying to find information about objects that were added to collections a century ago is not always easy, especially when the object in question is more than a hundred years…
Making Sense of Art
At the start of every month, the Boston Children’s Museum Art Studio unveils a new creative endeavor intended to get the gears turning in our young visitors’ minds. For the…
How Did I Do?: Reflections on parenting as my son leaves the nest
This is our 100th Blog post. In the 99 posts that preceded this one we’ve learned about developing a child’s creative confidence, tips on fathering, more inventive ways to play…
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder…I hope
Collections have been missing from the blog lately, and as it is already February, I am compelled to make up for that absence. We have been keeping quite busy lately.…
Enjoy the Olympics at Home!
The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics/Paralympics will be starting soon! (To avoid redundancy, I will just say “Olympics” when referring to both the Olympics and Paralympics.) Watching the Olympic Games is…
Strengthening our Schools through the Arts
As a young girl growing up in the vital and creative Detroit of the 1960s, and with parents who loved to explore the city, I was taken early to the…
The Power of Play 