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Winter Palooza for Utah Residents #utah, #winterpalooza #event

Hey guys!

I just wanted to let you all know, that this Saturday, January 24, 2015 there is a family event at the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy, Utah!

!!Winter Palooza!! Get $7.00 tickets at www.WinterPaloozaUtah.com FREE Photo Opp’s Featuring: Snow Princesses! (yes, Frozen favorites) Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, All the Princesses Batman, Superman,…

From planning the activities, to watching everything come to life, working on Winterpalooza was truly magical. Coming up with activities for Winterpalooza is always the best part because only the sky is the limit. With that mind set, we came up with many kid friendly activities.  The activities I prepped for were Magic Snow and the Snow Globe Cups. Snow globe cups were very popular and it was so much fun to see the kids enjoying themselves. My favorite part of the experience was watching the opera performance with the kids participation.

Jana 

Winter Palooza was an experience that could best be described for me as transitional. I choose transitional to describe my experience with Winter Palooza because I had started working on the cardboard castle as I was working on the shadow puppet interactive. During the castle building process I jumped at a chance to intern for youth programs. Aside from transitioning from internships, I went from spending little physical engagement with the community to having multiple interactions with them in one day. When the castle was finished I wish I could have done more. I wish I had more time to spend on the castle so that I could add more details to the castle; paint, accessories, and ways for kids to be able to engage more with the castle.

When I was working at the interactive my expectations or rather fears, were not met. I feared that the children at the interactive would have a difficult time or not be interested with the activity. In my mind I feared the kids would hurt themselves, feel insecure about their houses, and that I would slip up and say foul words. I was expecting there to be a situation that I would not be able to handle but fortunately it turned out that working with kids was not as difficult as I made it out to be in my head. The kids were eager to participate, courteous and respectful to one another and the parents that did attend the interactive with their children were hands on and involved with the activity. A lot of the pressure was resolved during the interactive thanks to the help of my partner Charlotte. Charlotte has prior experience and helped me handle a situation where I was indecisive on how to respond to a child who would not comply with the rules.

Brandt

Former Exhibitions Intern