It really depends on your schedule and location. RE: Membership Museums - Best Option for 2-year-old? Stitching is the toughest since I can't sew, but it's fun to learn something together and probably heartening to her that our skill levels are roughly similar. Finally, I am trying to extend the creative approach to cooking, gardening and sewing to teach that we can create art with many media in our daily lives. It sounds like you are already over-scheduled for weekly activities but an occasional extra might fit in. Some places I'm keen to try but haven't yet are the drop-in programs at the Museum of Children's Art (Oakland) and Hands-On and Sticky Art Lab in Berkeley. The book is out of print but I bought it on Amazon. We also have a lot of exhibit catalogues and other large format art books and periodically my daughter will pull one down and flip through it (all those big color pages are probably very alluring to a non-reader), which I hope is the precursor to a genuine interest down the road. Half the book details types of art and examples of activities while the other half places art within the overall context of creativity and gives some straight talk about how children's creativity and independence may be at variance with other common child-rearing goals like following direction and conforming to get good grades. Art for the Fun of It is my all-time favorite in terms of being supremely confident, child-focused and process-oriented. I use Pinterest a lot to find art projects but I love books and a few on our shelves are The Artful Parent (Van't Hul), Art for the Fun of It (Jenkins), Doing Art Together (Silberstein-Storfer), Making Things (Wiseman), Stitchery for Children (Enthoven), Making Make-Believe (Kohl) as well as every book I see about printing because I like prints. They focus on different artists (recent examples are Gaudi and Kusama) and create kid-level projects borrowing from the artists' techniques. Among all the other attractions there are three art rooms with rotating projects and a helpful staff. If it fits your budget I strongly recommend a membership to the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito. She is not quite four, whereas your daughter is likely making at least some transition from purely process art to a greater interest in results, but these are my recommendation. We have the opposite situation - my daughter's preschool does minimal art and we do more structured projects at home - but I've also made it a focus of enrichment. How wonderful that you are prioritizing art for your daughter.
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