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Children's Day Festival at the Fort Bend Museum

2011 Date TBD

Photos from Children's Day 2009.

Fort Bend County families celebrated the arrival of spring at the Fort Bend Museum's annual Children's Day festival on March 27, 2010! The FREE family event took place at the Fort Bend Museum from noon until 5 p.m.The Fort Bend Museum opened its doors during the festival with free walk-through tours of the Museum gallery and guided tours of the historic Moore Home. Other activities included:

• Playing period games with the T.W. Davis YMCA;
• 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 2011 Children's Day, please call Claire Rogers at (281) 342-6478 or e-mail her.

Photos from Children's Day 2008.