Virtual Junior Curators


Junior Curators activities are designed for children 6 and older and their families.
Activities are adaptable to other ages.

 

Choose a Theme!

 

Hand holding a paintbrush, painting a landscape showing seals.

Animals in Art
Drawing of a berry plant in a sketchbook, colored red and green with colored pencils.

Berries
A plastic figurine of a whale next to a homemade DNA model.

Big Things
A beaver skull sitting on a skull-patterned tablecloth, next to a card with a picture of a beaver skull and the words "Whose bones?"

Bones
Close-up of hands carving a linocut print.

Carving
Sunlight shining in rainbow colors on a child's hand.

Colors
A tent under a starry sky.

Exploration
Child holding binoculars to their eyes.

Light
Sea otter floating on its back in water.

Marine Mammals
Variety of dried seeds, beans, and rice glued to a mountain outline.

Mountains
Child wearing a paper bumblebee mask and holding origami flowers.

Pollinators
A whimsical artist's view of a girl dreaming of space exploration.

Solar System
Artist's conception of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun.

Sun
A homemade paintbrush next to a red paper plate with light blue paint in the center.

Tools
Two children dipping their hands in a tub of ice water, with shortening to insulate their hands. An adult sits in the background.

Whales
Orange and black butterfly sitting on a child's hands.

Wings
 

We welcome your feedback! Share your pictures, videos, comments, or thoughts with us via email: ua-museumlearn@alaska.edu or on the museum's Facebook page. We look forward to hearing from you!

Image Credits: 

Animals in Art: Gail Priday.
Berries: pure julia on Unsplash.
Bones: UAMN photo by Roger Topp, 2018.
Carving: Free-Photos on Pixabay.
Colors: Yingchih on Unsplash.
Exploration: Pexels on Pixabay.

Light: night owl on Pixabay.
Marine Mammals: National Park Service.
Solar System: NASA/Jenny Mottar. 
Sun: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben.
Wings: David Clode on Unsplash.
Big Things, Mountains, Pollinators, Tools, Whales: UAMN photos.