From exciting music and dance performances to an extravaganza of hands-on activities, artist demonstrations and free goody bags, Sizzlin’ Summer Saturdays gives kids and families a cool and creative way to spend the next few Saturdays.
Even better, Mom and Dad can explore the
Heard Museum for free courtesy of Target.
Coming events include:
Saturday, July 18
“Bugs & Butterflies!”Bugs rule at the Heard! Make a fabulous foam bug bead necklace, color fuzzy butterfly pictures, create a foam spider bracelet, scratch your own design onto a butterfly and make a clothespin butterfly. Enjoy the Yellowbird Indian Dancers, who will perform a variety of dances including Apache dances and the popular hoop dance. Plus, meet Jeanette Chimerica, a Hopi basket weaver, who will show how she makes both coil baskets and plaques using bright colors and traditional and contemporary designs.
Saturday, July 25 “By the Sea!”
The sea and its denizens are a vital part of tribal cultures near the ocean. Learn more about the sea and its creatures by creating a necklace from foam sea creatures, coloring a tissue paper fish, painting a whale pin, scratching your very own designs on a fish and coloring a fish bag to tote all your new treasures home!.
Saturday, Aug 1 “Plant It!”
Plants and flowers have been used by Native peoples for centuries for food, basketry and other items, and for other purposes. Kids can feel like they’re part of the action by scratching their own patterns onto leaves, creating flower rubbings, making a necklace from candy corn beads, making leaves from tissue paper and painting a corn cob pin. Young girls and boys who make up the Hopi Dance Group will perform several Hopi social dances, whose purpose is to bring essential moisture to their corn and other crops.
Saturdays, July 18, 25 and August 1, 2009, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Heard Museum
2301 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ
For more information, call 602-252-8848
