Fine Art Friday: Make Your Own Button

  • Friday, May 3
  • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM MT
  • SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: 1050 OLD PECOS TRAIL, SANTA FE, NM 87505

Decorate your backpack, jacket, or lunchbox with a button of your own creation!

Join us on the first Friday in May as part of the Santa Fe Children’s Museum Fine Art Friday program! We will lead an activity wherein participants can design and create their own button. The sky is the limit for how many buttons you can make! 

Materials include paper, markers, crayons, pencils, and colored pencils. This activity is perfect for kids of all ages. Button press machine will be handled by Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Educators and Santa Fe Children’s Museum staff. 

Hosted by the Santa Fe Children’s Museum, Fine Art Friday is a weekly program that explores hands-on art activities with special guests. To learn more about Fine Art Friday, please visit SFCM’s website. 

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Santa Fe Children’s Museum
1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87505
(505) 989-8359

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