April School Vacation Week

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Every day of break.

Wondering how you're going to keep your kids engaged during a school vacation week stuck at home? The PMA is happy to help inject some creativity into their break with at-home art activities for you and your family. Each day of school vacation, we will share new activities designed to explore artworks from home and help you to engage with art, the PMA, and each other.

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Make your own self portrait
Make your own self portrait

Learn how to stage self-portraits at home and how artists have long used self-portraits as various forms of self-expression.

Best for ages 8 and up.

Design A Shrine
Design A Shrine

In this activity, we'll be folding small boxes and then filling them with images, ideas, or words that relate to the things we hold dear to us. All that is required is knowing what you love, a little creativity, and a few basic materials!.

Movement Activity for Kids
Movement Activity for Kids

Explore Carrie Moyer’s "Intergalactic Emoji Factory" using movement as a way to connect with the lines and expressive paint layers in this artwork. Movement helps us look at artwork in new and different ways.

Recommended for ages 2-8, and the young at heart.

All-Ages Haiku Activity inspired by Claude Monet
All-Ages Haiku Activity inspired by Claude Monet

Use your senses to examine Monet's The Seine at Vétheuil and come up with a list of descriptive words. Then, use these words to create a haiku poem meant to be shared with someone.

Recommended for ages 6 and up.

Collaborative Drawing, Inspired by Opera Buffa
Collaborative Drawing, Inspired by Opera Buffa

Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe talk about collaboration as being fun, playful, and experimental. In this activity, you will work with another artist to create two collaborative drawings. You will use a window in your home as a way to observe and frame life outside.

Ages 5 and up.

A Blue Savanna Scavenger Hunt
A Blue Savanna Scavenger Hunt

Dahlov Ipcar’s Blue Savanna is full of animals! Each of these creatures is doing something; some are running, some are jumping, and some are making animal sounds. Take some time to look at this amazing painting, and see if you can answer the questions below.

Best for ages 3-8

Three Writing Activities inspired by Jeffrey Gibson's PEOPLE LIKE US
Three Writing Activities inspired by Jeffrey Gibson's PEOPLE LIKE US

Try three different writing activities based on Jeffrey Gibson’s PEOPLE LIKE US.

Best for ages 6 and up

Help us "Art at Home" together 
Help us "Art at Home" together 

We are working every day to bring artworks, activities, and stories that lift you up, spark your imagination, and connect you to the world and your community. And so, we want you, our community, to become a part of our Art at Home messaging!

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