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Children's Day

March 27, 2010

Photos from Children's Day 2009.

Celebrate the arrival of spring at the Fort Bend Museum's annual Children's Day festival! The FREE family event will take place on Saturday, March 27 from noon until 5 p.m.The Fort Bend Museum will open its doors during the festival with free walk-through tours of the Museum gallery and guided tours of the historic Moore Home. Other activities will include:

• Making paper pots and planting seeds with the Fort Bend Master Gardeners;
• Learning about wildlife with Brazos Bend State Park;
• Watching wood-carving techniques by the Brazoria County Woodcarvers Club;
• Participating in a real archeological dig with the Fort Bend Archeological Society;
• Listening to music from the Brazos Bottom Dulcimers;
• Decorating -- and eating! -- cookies with the Fort Bend Museum Docents;
• Seeing a real cotton gin, rice mill and corn grinder brought by the Fort Bend County Farm Bureau;
• Practicing chores of the past, including clothes washing, ginning and carding;
• Watching spinning demonstrations

If you are interested in volunteering to help with the 2010 Children's Day, please call Claire Rogers at (281) 342-6478 or e-mail her.

Photos from Children's Day 2008.