"The Austin Symphony invites children and their parents to join in discovering the wonder and excitement that the performing arts can bring when they attend Children’s Day Art Park, an Austin tradition for more than 25 years. Wednesday mornings this June and July, Symphony Square will be transformed into a secret garden of cultural delights waiting for the youth of Austin and Central Texas to enjoy. An amphitheater teeming with balloons, bubbles, roving symphony musicians, magicians, mimes, arts & crafts, storytellers, clowns, smiling faces, and musical instruments await the imagination of the young and the young at heart. This summer at Symphony Square, come experience the magic for yourself!
During the morning festivities, musicians of the Austin Symphony Orchestra stroll through Symphony Square visiting with children, demonstrating their instruments and playing their favorite tunes. Kids can also visit the Instrument Petting Zoo to see, touch and play real orchestral instruments.
After the performance, a real Pied Piper leads everyone down the Lemonade Trail to the Magic Oak Tree for stories and fun in the Art Park “Big Top.” The myriad of available activities in which children can participate include having their faces painted and making craft projects."
Unfortunately, this was the last event for this summer, but fortunately we went and enjoyed every single bit of it. Ava really enjoys listening to instruments on the classical music station and was fascinated by the trombone player performing "Happy Birthday" for her.
Lemonade break.
Aunt Jill demonstrating the trumpet (Ava's favorite instrument) with a little help from Aves, all during the "Instrument Petting Zoo".
The instruments all hung down and the name of each was displayed. P.S. Alcohol wipes were available for wiping the mouth pieces down.
Ava trying out the clarinet.
And the cello.
The cousins with Aunt Jill.
Quartet performance.
Face painting afterwards. Kiwi the clown is often talked about in our house after she came to Abigails 3rd Birthday party. Ava is not a fan of "typical" clowns, but she recognized Kiwi and actually let her paint her face. Ava picked out "look like a dog".
Kiwi is AWESOME! She did this in a matter of minutes. Ava was so exciting and running around barking like a "doe-gy"
Dancing to some live tunes.
Enjoying popsicles. They were huge and took them forever to eat. Everyone was a sweaty, but happy, mess by the end of it.
Aunt Jill demonstrating the trumpet (Ava's favorite instrument) with a little help from Aves, all during the "Instrument Petting Zoo".
The instruments all hung down and the name of each was displayed. P.S. Alcohol wipes were available for wiping the mouth pieces down.
Ava trying out the clarinet.
And the cello.
The cousins with Aunt Jill.
Quartet performance.
Face painting afterwards. Kiwi the clown is often talked about in our house after she came to Abigails 3rd Birthday party. Ava is not a fan of "typical" clowns, but she recognized Kiwi and actually let her paint her face. Ava picked out "look like a dog".
Kiwi is AWESOME! She did this in a matter of minutes. Ava was so exciting and running around barking like a "doe-gy"
Dancing to some live tunes.
Enjoying popsicles. They were huge and took them forever to eat. Everyone was a sweaty, but happy, mess by the end of it.
Thanks to Aunt Jill for showing us this exciting event! We had fun with cousins Abigail and Emery and our friends Evan and Avery, as well. Fun times were had by all!
On the way home, Ava wanted to listen to some "instruments" on the radio and kept "ooing and aweing" at the sounds she heard. How perfect is this...
"At Children’s Day Art Park learning about the arts happens naturally!"
3 comments:
That looks like so much fun! Ava is adorable with her face painting too!
So glad you shared...this sounds amazing! We will have to remember this for next year!
p.s. Love the face painting!
that looks like so much fun!! wish we had something like that here!
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