ACTIVITY IDEAS

GRAB AN ACTIVITY SHEET!

MOCA’s team has put together a variety of activity sheets for kids. You can grab one or more to help your child engage with museum content, learn new things, and get creative! Activity sheets and colored pencils can be found at the front desk for use at the museum.

GET CREATIVE WITH THE ELEMENTS OF ART!

Bring your own paper and pencils to the museum or borrow an activity box at the front desk. Use the different elements of art to create your own masterpiece.

LINE – The most basic element of art, a line is a single point moving around in space and is used to create shapes, contours, texture, and shading.

COLOR – When light is reflected off an object, it creates color.

VALUE – Value is how light or dark the colors in an image are. Value can be created in tints, tones, and shades.

SHAPE – Enclosed 2-dimensional areas are shapes. Shapes can be geometric or organic.

FORM – A 3-dimensional shape or the illusion of a 3-dimensional shape. A form takes up space and has volume.

SPACE – Space is when something has a sense of depth. It can be created on a 2-dimensional surface using techniques like perspective, overlapping, size, and placement.

TEXTURE – The way a surface feels or looks like it would feel if it were touched is texture. A surface can be soft, rough, smooth, fuzzy, etc.

DO A SCAVENGER HUNT!

TELL A STORY! Find a work of art that tells a story. Tell the story you see.

WHAT IS HAPPENING? Can you find a work of art with people in it? What are they doing? What emotions do you think they are feeling?

I SPY A SHAPE! Find 3 different shapes in the artwork.

TAKE A TRIP! Is there a work of art that shows a place you would like to go? What do you think you would see there? What kinds of sounds and smells do you think you would experience?

IT’S FLAT! Find a 2-dimensional work of art. This means a work of art that is mostly flat. These works only have two dimensions – lengths and width – like drawings, photographs, and paintings.

I SPY A COLOR! Find three works of art with the same color in them.

IN THE ROUND! Find a 3-dimensional work of art. This means a work that is not flat. These works have three dimensions – length, width, and depth – like sculptures or installations.

STRIKE A POSE! Find a work of art with a person in it and try to mimic their pose.

HOW DOES IT FEEL? Look for a work of art with an interesting texture. What do you think it would feel like if you could touch it? Would it be soft, bumpy, spiky, or smooth? How would you describe it?