We have a membership to the Anchorage Museum and while we don’t make it there very often, we still get emails about fun events they are hosting. They have had events that sounded interesting, but I hadn’t ever made it to any of them until today. They were having a dinosaur drawing event and it sounded super fun - and not just for me!
Nonni loves art as much as I do and Thomas has definitely gotten interested in drawing as well. Plus, who doesn’t love dinosaurs?!?! So I informed Matt he was in charge of the littles this afternoon and signed up for the class. (The recommended age for the class was 6+, so we decided Henry might get bored with it…)
The drawing was only part of the event and a lot of time was spent talking about dinosaurs native to Alaska. There was a pretty epic road trip by artist Ray Troll and paleontologist that led to the current awesome dinosaur exhibit at the museum - Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline. Amongst the fossil drawings, there is also 10 cheeseburgers, multiple polar bears and even a santa claus.
Thomas was super in to the drawing part of the class. This part was focused on looking at a dinosaur drawing or model and drawing it on your own paper. Unfortunately, they didn’t have enough clipboards, so mine was a super fast sketch once Nonni was done with hers.
But Thomas had plenty of time to work on his and came up with this awesome dinosaur. Doesn’t he look so proud of his toothy dino??
The next part was even more fun though! Each group got parts of a dinosaur skeleton and had to interpret how to put the bones together. Who doesn’t love a good puzzle?!? Of course we had no idea what the final product was supposed to look like, but that was the fun part of it!
You can see Cait & Abby were there as well! Cait was wondering if it was weird for an adult to want to go and I told her we were going with Thomas already. So they joined in the fun!
After we got to see what our dinosaur bones were interpreted to look like by the “experts”, we got to draw our own interpretation from the bones! Thomas and I decided that our dinosaur probably had spikes along the spine, but Nonni went with a smooth back.
Thomas and I showing off our final products! When he was mostly done with his, he asked if I liked it. I said I loved it, but I wanted to call it a Taco-saurus because it looked like a little bit like a taco! He took that feedback and ran with it to make it look even more like a taco. Ha - I love this kid!
It was a super fun class and I hung our drawings on the wall of art when we got home. I arranged them so that the half sun on our pictures lined up - it looks like we did it on purpose, but it was a total coincidence.
We will definitely have to go to more events at the museum as fun as this one was! :)