The Peekskill Museum will be hosting a one-of-a-kind event unlike any other event they have ever held. On Sunday, November 10, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., the Peekskill Museum will be holding a Children’s Day where parents and grandparents can bring their children and grandchildren to take a few hours and step back in time to experience old-fashioned and fun-filled activities from the past.
This one-of-a-kind event will allow kids and parents to have fun and exciting things to do while parents can relive their childhood and show their kids and grandkids how they played in the past. This is an opportunity to play games you may have forgotten about or have not seen or played in decades.
At the Peekskill Museum Children’s Day, guests will have the opportunity to play with vintage toys and games from the past, participate in arts and crafts, take part in various activities, visit a story time area, and take a tour of the Peekskill Museum’s Children’s Room and experience what it was like to be a child in a simpler, gentler time all without a cell phone or modern technological device. To make guests really feel like they have stepped back into a previous time, members of the Peekskill Museum will be dressed in periodic costumes. All of this is free and open to the public.
The Peekskill Museum Children’s Day will allow kids of all ages (and adults who are still Toys-R-Us kids) to play with vintage and antique toys that require skill and dexterity such as yo-yos, paddleballs, pickup sticks, jacks, Tiddlywinks and spinning tops. Museum members and volunteers will teach and show guests how to play with the toys if they are unsure and talk about how kids played in previous ages as well as what they played with.
The Peekskill Museum Children’s day will also offer a unique range of activities that children can choose from including playing different board games popular during previous era’s such as Checkers, Chutes and Ladders and Candyland. Moreover, guests can enjoy making arts and crafts that include creating paper dolls, coloring with crayons and coloring books, painting with watercolors, and learning how to make cornhusk dolls.
TIn addition to all of that, there will be a story time area where museum members will provide a range of readings for different age groups including classic books, poems and nursery rhymes like Peter Rabbit, The Owl and the Pussycat, The Walrus and the Carpenter, and Mother Goose. Milk, juice and cookies will be available for the kids and apple cider for the grownups. On top of all of that, there will be tours of the Peekskill Museum Children’s Room and discussion about all the things contained in it. Music played on an old Victrola will fill the museum and its grounds with music from the past keeping in theme with the days events and activities.
Parents, grandparents or guardians are encouraged to not only bring their children to participate in all of the activities of the day, but they are encouraged to play with them, building bonds that will last a lifetime by showing them how to play with some of the toys and games they played with as kids. To finish the day off, kids will be able to bring home balloons and win prizes.
This is an event that you will not want to miss. Best of all, the entire event is free. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
The Peekskill Museum is located at 124 Union Avenue. For more information, visit the Peekskill Museum website at peekskillmuseum.org and follow the Peekskill Museum on Facebook.
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