Sunday, April 20, 2008

Field Trip, part 2



Indoors at the Jomon museum, we found a number of hands-on activities that the kids enjoyed. It was a nice break from the outdoor chill and misty rain.

Jomon era pottery is characterized by the rope-imprint designs on the exterior. John, Joseph, and Matthew reconstruct a vase:





Joseph tries to make fire:



Ahhh...a better method:




Katie, Tommy, and Patrick have fun with the computerized face-painting activity:


These look a bit like Maori facial markings to me.


Two faces are better than one, apparently. ;-)

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