Springville Museum of Art

I wish I had this information sooner, but I found it by accident Friday morning and decided to go. The art museum in Springville has an annual Children's Art Festival. They had booths, food and entertainment. Each of the kids got a punch card. As they visited each booth, it was punched and when they had visited 7 booths, they could enter it in a drawing.

The booths were so much fun. All of them were hands-on art activities. We created Styrofoam ink prints, puppets and books. My 2 year old had fun doing the fingerprint art. Her hands were covered with ink. My 7 year old loved making her own bracelet out of copper wire and beads. My 10 year old really enjoyed the leather stamping booth. And my 13 year old liked making the sun catchers out of sequins, glitter, thread and contact paper. There were also paper lizards, 'china' plates and face painting.

There were storytellers scheduled throughout the day as well as entertainers. I especially enjoyed the Native Americans that shared their heritage, music and dances.

They also had food available to purchase- hotdogs, otter pops, kettle corn, etc.

My kids came home with a bag full of art projects and I came home with a bunch of ideas for school. We will definitely go back again next year!

You can visit the museum for their regular exhibits year round. They also have great materials for school teachers. Their website is: http://smofa.org/