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BIRTHDAY PARTIES
We offer exciting birthday parties for children ages 4 and older at various museums around New York City. We can customize your child's birthday party to his or her interests or a particular exhibition or you can choose from a list of possible themes. The basic birthday party package is for 10 children and their accompanying adults. The cost is $600,each additional child is $15, up to 20 children in total. The birthday party tour will last approximately 1 1/2 hours and will include a fun art project to take home for each child. The children will participate in looking, searching, imagining, talking about the art around them. Catering generally takes place outside the museum but ARTKIDS can help to find a suitable location nearby. The following are possible themes to choose from:
Kids will discover that there are princes and princesses who live at the museum: in paintings and in the objects made for them. We will discover who they are and how they lived: from the palace rooms to the chairs they sat on and the desks they wrote on, from the beds they slept on to the armor that they put on for parades. Each object will tell its own story but all will connect through their royal owners.
Projects: can vary from decorating a fan to a treasure box, or a crown.
The African collection has some of the most amazing and fantastical animals portrayed in the masks of the collection. We will discover which animals were used for the masks, why were they used? We will do a drumming dance (for ages 3-6 years old) and listen to two African stories.
Project: make your own African mask and decorate it.
Every object in the museum has a story to tell. We will traverse the galleries of the Met to find out what those stories might be: from the materials, to the makers to the stories contained in each one.
Project will vary depending on the interest of the child.
Did you know that there are monsters and dragons throughout out the museum? Come along to find where they might be hiding while traveling through many cultures and periods to find them. Some are good and some are bad but all were used by artists to turn paintings or objects into exciting and fantastical stories.
Project: put together your own fantastical monster from many parts, name him and give him some powers.
Who were these mysterious Egyptians? What did they look like? What did they wear? What did they do? How did they write? Study? What did they eat? We will find out all these answers and more through a truly interactive journey using: reproductions of actual Egyptian clothing that can be worn, writing on papyrus, reading hieroglyphs, eating dates and figs and hearing stories.
Project: make your own ancient Egyptian gold foil bracelet with beads.
Kids will meet some very famous Ancient Greek stars: athletes and Gods and heroes. We will hear stories about them and see them in Greek vases and in sculpture.
Project: make your own Greek Vase drawing
There are many kids who live in paintings here at the Met. Some of them lived 200 years ago and some 100 years ago but they were all real at some point in time. We will find who they were and meet them through the paintings or sculpture.
Project: A drawing of one of the children in the paintings. The drawing can be framed with colorful, 3-D decorative borders and stood on a stand.
Come with us to discover some of the fanciest rooms that came from castles, palaces and grand homes and are now found at the Met. We will travel to many different countries: France, Italy, England and America with a passport for each country we pass through.
Project: Be an architect and outfit a room plan with some fancy furniture pieces.
This is art history for kids. We will see many portraits and self-portraits painted through the ages. Sometimes these are by the artists themselves making their own portraits and others are portraits of friends, family members or some mysterious people. All artists have their own individual way of expressing themselves.
Project: make a self-portrait using a mirror.
Discover Pablo Picasso and other artists of the 20th century. Colors, shapes, action painting, abstract art and cubism are all explored. This is great for any age.
Project: make your own abstract sculpture from provided materials, see if it can be exhibited at the museum.
Kids will discover that they can step back in time and step right into some ancient rooms from around Pompeii that were transported to the Metropolitan Museum about a 100 years ago. We will see their paintings, sculptures, Gods and Emperors, and even find an ancient Roman chariot.
Project: make your own ancient mirror, or gold coins.
Brother and sister runways, Claudia and Jamie, spent two weeks hiding in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Take a closer look at the galleries the kids spent their time in and the objects that caught their attention.
Other birthday tours can be arranged at the Guggenheim Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, The Copper-Hewitt National Design Museum, The National Academy of Art, The Japan Society, and the China Institute
ARTKIDS is open to kids 3 1/2 to 12 years old. Children younger than 5 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. To register for classes click here.
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