MFA St. Pete hosts free, kid-centric, ‘Painting In the Park’ festival this weekend

There’ll be activities for kids of all ages.

by Ray Roa May 8, 2024October 24, 2024

Bringing kiddos to the MFA St. Pete is always a good experience (especially when a croissant from the museum’s Clementine cafe is involved), but talking about painting and works of art only gets you so far with a four-year-old.

Painting In the Park is a good resolution. Attendees get a “Painting In The Park Passport” that guides them through 10 activity stations as they create make-and-take masterpieces inspired by the MFA Collection, earn stamps, then get a prize. The MFA says it’ll have activities for “toddlers, tweens, and in-betweens.”

There’s no cover for MFA St. Pete’s Painting In the Park festival happening Saturday, May 11.

Register in advance to get a special friendship bracelet.
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This article appears in May 2-8, 2024.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief... More by Ray Roa