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Target FREE Family Saturday: Calling All Kids!

Community Event
In Person
Japanese American National Museum
100 N Central Ave Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Date: May 8, 2010

Time: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.


FREE ALL DAY!

Celebrate International Children’s Day at JANM! Fun crafts, readings, performances and food tastings for the whole family!

ALL DAY CRAFT ACTIVITIES:

  • Create a fun and festive tanabata decoration using a variety of materials.
  • Maneki neko is a Japanese beckoning cat that is considered to be a lucky charm in Japan. Make one of your own to bring you good luck.
  • Design your own koi nobori (Japanese fish kite) to celebrate Children's Day
  • Ruthie’s Origami Corner: Create your own Mother’s Day card!
  • SCHEDULE:
    11 to 2 PM – Spring has sprung and Kidding Around the Kitchen is here to show you how to make kid friendly fruit kebobs with yogurt dipping sauce

    1 PM – Try traditional Japanese Children's Day sweets from Fugetsu-do Sweet Shop!

    2 PM – Come see the special shadow puppet show, “Urashima Taro,” and hear, The Last Kappa of Old Japan, book reading with Sunny Seki.

    3 PM – Listen to the award-winning writer Naomi Hirahara read from her newest book Blood Hina (available to purchase through the Museum Store )

    Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together.

    For more info, visit: http://www.janm.org/events/2010/05/#08


    Blood Hina (book) cat dolls Children's Day crafts families folk art Fugetsu-do koinobori maneki neko (talisman) Naomi Hirahara puppet theater shadow play Tanabata Urashima Taro

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