Gina was busy on Saturday morning and Leah requested that we do something "fun". It was cold outside, and we have a six-month old foster son, so the zoo was out. Leah also suggested (OK, begged) for the Children's Museum, which would have been fine but it cost money and, frankly, I'm cheap. But I knew that our local art museum was free on Saturday mornings (10am-noon) but I thought, "What do they have for a six-year old at an art museum?" So I did some research.

The answer is that the[Joslyn Art Museum][] has a lot of kids stuff. [Quite a bit in fact.][] Actually, [they have a whole website worth of stuff.][] And we had a ball.

We kinda walked around the special exhibits and[saw some interesting things.][] But Leah wanted to make her own. Leah sat at the Can Do Art display, where they have paper, crayons, colored pencils, etc. Even a few games! If you know Leah very well, you know that she loves that kind of stuff. A grandfather was there with two grandkids and he started making paper airplanes. That meant we made some too.

After that, we went to the Cafe and had a little snack. Then Leah asked for something that I casually mentioned to her. I read it off the website but really didn't know what it was. So we went and got an [Art Pack][] and got going.

We did the "Go West!" pack. The best way to describe it is a scavenger hunt or a geocache in the museum. They gave us a backpack and it had a journal with directions, and a compass. The journal told us where to start and then gave us directions of "Walk 6 paces North then turn East . . ." until we eventually got to a painting. We read about the painting, and then reached in the backpack and got an activity out there to do (make a journal, play a bingo game, etc.) And we had a blast with it! And, while we didn't see a lot of different art on this activity, we actually learned a lot about the pieces that we saw -- and isn't that the point.

Leah is excited to do it again and I am as well. We need to take Gina next time. And how did our foster son do? I had to feed him during our stop at the Can do Art display, and then he slept until waaay after we left.