Thursday, December 16, 2010

Curious George Exhibit at Contemporary Jewish Museum

Both my kids are fan of Curious George (and me too!). His curiousness resembles so close to that of little kids! Recently I heard a quote on KLOK 1170, "A mistake is just another way of doing something...". It goes so well with Curious George and kids. We always want our kids to do things in a certain way forgetting that they have a brain which is not polluted by the constraints. They can have ideas and thoughts that we might rule out as incorrect or mistake. So much for the philosophy...

I had read about the limited time Margaret and H.A.Rey's drawing exhibits in the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. In order to get most out of our visit we chose sunday when they had preschool gallery and drop-in-art-making. To cover the museum appropriately, we did a divide and conquer strategy, I took the little one for preschool and story telling activities, meanwhile N took the older one around the museum to see the Jewish exhibits.



My little one first enjoyed the story telling time listening to 4-5 stories.


Then we visited the curious George exhibit, as no pictures were allowed I don't have any to post here. However we did take pictures with the mascot. Below is "I" at the entrance to the exhibit:

The exhibit was very informative, I read aloud the words on each of the displays to my little one as we passed by each of the them and tried to name the Curious George book in which it appeared.

Finally in the drop-in-art-making the kids spent 30-45 minutes making light puppets. I would surely want to visit the museum again to see the other exhibits that I did not cover.

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