The Fort Bend County Museum
More than 100 years of Texas History
Children's Day Festival at the Fort Bend Museum
March 24, 2012
Fort Bend County families will again celebrate the arrival of spring at the Fort Bend Museum's annual Children's Day festival on March 24, 2012! The FREE family event will take place at the Fort Bend Museum from noon until 5 p.m.
Activities will include:
- Free admission to the Fort Bend Museum & historic Moore home;
- Performances of "The Story of the Lone Star State" by Houston's InterActive Theater Company (at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.);
- 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;
- 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 2012 Children's Day, please call Danielle Jennings at (281) 342-6478 or e-mail her.
Photos from Children's Day 2009.
Photos from Children's Day 2008.