Buell Children's Museum presents Dreaming Beyond The Book: The Arts & Literacy

Hands-on fun activities featured through May 29

The award winning Buell Children's Museum at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center presents hands-on fun with arts and literacy in the Spring exhibition Dreaming Beyond The Book. The museum experience of reading a good book with the help of the Crayola Dream-Maker'® curriculum. Jump into activities for the whole family through May 29.

Create Experiment Think

Discover the book Rainbow fish, Feathers for Lunch and Navajo wood carvings - creations that tickle your fancy and inspire you to write your very own fish story or fashion a fine-feathered friend.

Ever wonder how movies and cartoons are made? Find out by spinning one of Kenny Schneiders's zoetropes, flipping over Fliptomania or making your own animation storyboard.

Giggle Giggle Giggle

Walk through the pages of Riddle Me This. This giggle book, as retold by Hugh Lupton and illustrated by Sophie Fatus, inspired the newest Sensations experience - a jest house of mirrors, optical illusions, wacky sounds and more. Thanks go to Danny Studen and John Wilbar, respectively for the technology and environment.

Manipulate monstrous magnets to make mischievous mutants. The magnetic board is Where The Wild Things Are.

Invent Educate Imagine

Be an author. Be an illustrator. Conjure up a good book to make-and-take in Artrageous. You'll have oodles of interactive fun, compliments of Whoozit, The Book Wizard. Cover your creation with a collage using paper you make yourself.

Think inside the box - once you've decorated it just right. Collectors Joleen Ryan and Pam Holder share a collection of containers to spark creativity for a miniature story library.

Grow Peek Delight

Can you imagine building a house, a school or a barn before there were tractors, trucks and cranes? Well, the pioneers did it with plenty of help from their neighbors. You and you friends can cooperate and build your own barn in our Barn Raising exhibit by author/illustrator Craig Brown. Or, maybe you'd rather go on a silly adventure of family fun. Stop by the Kid Rock Café and take A Trip To The City via Lokken Millis' color washed prints.

And don't forget to see the cast iron banks fashioned as a storybook characters. These banks are definitely beyond the book and a must have. But don't just dream about them. Pick your favorite and start a collection.

Thanks to the Pueblo City-County Library District for help with all the books.

Pretend Believe Perform

Dress up and head for the ball. Our version of Cinderella's coach has everything you need to dance the night away.

Choose improv. We're make The Mouse and The Cheese into a one-act play in the El Pomar Magic Carpet Theater.

Visit the Puppet Planter and play with classic pop-ups or colorful marionettes. Take home one of your favorite from the Toy Cupboard to make a movable puppet of your favorite storybook character.

Celebrate Wonder Explore

We're having a Seuss-a-bration! In honor of Dr. Seuss's 100th birthday, you can visit all your favorites, like Green Eggs & Ham and The Cat In The Hat. Read or re-read these whimsical verses in our Lizard Lounge, re-enact their stories with our interactive computer games and make-and-take your own top hat.

And, back by popular demand - Magic Nuudles® and Builder Boards®, sponsored by Stachler Family.

When hunger strikes, just "dig-in" at the Kid Rock Café, open 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission to the Arts Center, including the Buell Children's Museum and Helen T. White Galleries, is $4 for adults and 43 for children. Members of the Arts Center receive free admission. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, please call 719-295-7200 or stop by the Arts Center located at 210 N. Santa Fe Ave., just off of I-25, exit 98b.

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