Both Free First Saturday and Sensory Friendly Sunday fell on the same weekend this month! On Saturday, I assisted Hibaaq again, this time with a zine-making activity, highlighting things participants care about! Visitors could choose from 3 templates: one with words and drawings they could color, one with just words, or a blank one so they can write and draw their own ideas. It was warm out on Saturday, so three was less traffic than normal since people wanted to spend time outside instead of in the museum. Most participants needed help with folding and cutting the paper after they were done, so we were both assisting with that pretty frequently as well. There were two kids who were super engaged, one of them asked me to teach her how to draw a cake and her and her brother were begging their dad to take them to see my work that is up in my senior show; it seemed like they really looked up to me and it felt like I had really impacted them by taking the time to have conversations with them!
On Sunday, I assisted teaching artist Nicole Thomas with a seed-bomb activity using colored tissue paper and wildflower seeds native to Minnesota! It was rainy so we only had a couple visitors, but it was a relaxing and meditative project in combination with the weather. Participants made a drawing as a thank you to mother earth, and then a colorful seed bomb. One group who visited were Nicole's friends, and they really enjoyed the activity, and the other person who visited is leading two Sensory Friendly Sunday activities this summer!