Fun summer activities offered at museum
Karen Chaney read to preschool children about colors.
The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum has activities for kids this summer on Fridays at 10 a.m. through July 18.
“This is our summer kids program. We have two groups. This summer program is geared toward children ages 3-5 and 6-12. School-age children meet Fridays for six weeks every summer, and families are welcome to explore the museum after each session,” said Jennifer Bush, director of the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum.
The preschool group is the color detectives. Each week they learn about a different color.
“They are reading a really cute book about crayons, going on a scavenger hunt,” Bush said. “Last week they made clay creatures, and this week they are painting them with markers.”
The school-age group is learning about metal and how some things were made of bronze during the 14th and 15th century and it is still the same process used today.
“They are going to learn that technique, and we will make some things out of wire,” Bush said. “We can’t really visit a foundry because there is hot metal everywhere. So we are making things out of metal and looking at a few metal artifacts.”
Administrative assistant Karen Chaney worked with the preschool class on colors through songs and stories. One of their colors was yellow. The children looked for objects in the museum that were the color yellow and found a bright-yellow vase on display.