Museum Bags
I'm gearing up for our Museum Year with small people. We've got snacks and water bottles, phone and camera and power bank, rain jackets and sunscreen... all the usual suspects. But these aren't just day trips , they're museum trips . The kids already have their favorites that we've learned about, but we're not going to take the train to Amsterdam or The Hague just to see two paintings -- and then immediately head home. Then again, they're kids, and I don't expect them to progress calmly and intellectually past 2000+ works of art while making grad school level notes. So what's in between? What would make a museum trip memorable without being too fact heavy or too shallow? I looked up museum activities for kids. The Rijksmuseum has an art bag (pencils, notebooks, and prompt items), as well as audio tours (including one with stuffed animals). Mauritshuis has art workshops for different age groups, with actual art lessons or DIY crafts that tie into wor...