Reinforce the things your children discovered with these suggestions.

Remember Your Visit
Encourage your children to draw, write, and talk about the things they saw at the museum. What was their favorite work of art? What didn't they like? Why?

Relate Art to the Familiar
Mention how everyday objects and things in your home are similar to things you observed in artworks at the museum.

Explore Picture Books Together
Looking at and reading picture books helps children become familiar and comfortable with developing a visual vocabulary even before they can read text. Find a picture book without words and take turns creating a narrative together. Or have your child close his or her eyes and imagine the illustrations as you read a story. Choose part of the story to illustrate and let your child describe how their illustration fits with the text.

Start a Mini-Museum at Home
Suggest that your children start a collection of their favorite objects and build their own mini-museum at home. Whether they collect trading cards, erasers, or stuffed toys, it can be the beginning of a more thorough appreciation of what museums are.

The Curious Corner
Did your child enjoy the Curious Corner at the museum? Play with and learn about art at home too! The Curious Corner is available online so enjoy it whenever you like!

For more ideas, check out Faces, Places, and Inner Spaces and Looking at Art Together: A Parent Guide to The Art Institute of Chicago. These family guidebooks are packed with games, suggestions of works of art to visit, and tips to help families have fun at the museum. Both guides are available in the Museum Shop.