Pretend City Children’s Museum invites you to welcome 2010 in a little big way
Kidsguide Magazine Online
Dec. 28, 2009

New Year, new slate! Celebrate the New Year a tad early at Orange County’s newest children’s museum on Dec. 31.

Pretend City will operate its holiday hours that Thursday – staying open until 1 p.m. – and have packed an evening’s worth of festivities.

At the Art Studio, young artists will take a leaf from the Spanish. According to their tradition, you must eat 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight to ensure good luck for the next 12 months. Taking inspiration from this, the day’s project will be creating “grape skewers” and New Year’s Eve hats. Afterwards, join the museum’s spirited staff at the Orange Plaza at 11:59 a.m. (11:59 p.m. KST – kid standard time), kids and their parents will count down to ring in the New Year. After watching the New Year’s Ball drop, get ready to kick up your heels to join the museum’s dancing parade.

Then, come back in January to experience:

• The hatching of a “real” chicken at the museum’s miniature farm.

• Free Class Preview Week, the perfect opportunity for you and your tyke to drop in and check out Pretend City’s roster of classes, which include Therapeutic Martial Arts, Action Aerobics, and Tiny Tots Hi-Hop.

• Celebrate legendary historical figures Amelia Earhart, Louis Braille and Martin Luther King Jr. with themed art studio classes, storytimes and songs.

• Pretend City’s Children’s Night In/Parent’s Night Out.