The children's museum in Atlanta is helping honor King day with several events targeted towards the younger set.
Have you ever tired to explain the something so complex like why we have today off, or who Dr. King was to your kindergartner? Well, if you had some trouble, you have help now. Today the Children's Museum of Atlanta is doing a whole day long program focused on King Day.
"The theme is MLK, his life, his words, his legacy." explained museum Imaginator Jerry G. White.
He helped develop the program that's running all day today between 10am and 3pm
"Our Reader's Theater program, then we'll do a music and movement, and story time, and then we'll repeat that." said White.
Which is helpful especially for their target audience, toddlers to 3rd graders and their caregivers explained museum exhibit and education director Karen Kelly. "I don't know if you have children, but they don't get up when you want them too all the time, and get moving as fast as you'd like. So the program runs throughout the day, so any time during the day a parent can show up with their kid and have a great experience." said Kelly.
In the reader's theater Jerry delivers on of Dr. King's speeches "and believe it or not when I'm finished [the kids say] 'Mr. King, Thank You." said White
Then for story time, to help the concrete thinkers in the group, Kelly explained there's a great book, "so we try to give them real life examples that match something they've experienced, which shows what life was like for Dr. King. How he couldn't sit in the same seats with this friends in the movie, how he had to have a different water fountain."
And for music and motion lots of paper birds. "So we're going to get [paper] doves that we're going to stick on the kids hands and get everyone to clasp arms throughout the museum" as they sing. Wrapping up with everyone joining in song. "And of course we end with Happy Birthday, the Stevie (Wonder) version." said White
Museum officials say it's best to purchase your tickets at their website before you head down to avoid the lines.
