Children's Day Art Park

Every Wednesday in the summer the Austin Symphony Orchestra puts on a big event for kids. They have a musical guest, balloons, jesters, story times, instrument petting zoo and crafts. Today the kids and I ventured out to our first one. The musical guest was Joe Mcdermott, he's a children singer/songwriter. The kids thought he was soooo funny. It was really cute to watch Wyatt and Kailyn dancing and laughing at this guy. After the show we followed the musical piper to the craft tents (down the street, this was all downtown) where Wyatt and I made a clay (not a tootsie roll like it looks) train and Kailyn made a fan (out of a paper plate and a tongue depressor). They had face painting and story time. The Symphony was playing music the whole time while the kids walked around doing all these different activities. We sweated a ton (103 F) but I came prepared with water and fruit galore and the kids had a lot of fun! Wyatt was so excited about his little train and Kailyn was very proud of her fan. (They both carried it all the way back to the parking garage which was 4 and half city blocks away!) They we're such good troopers (especially Wyatt who hauled butt walking everywhere) and it's great that it was all FREE! (50 cents per kid, if you get there on time, which of course we didn't) We love Austin!