Santa Paula Art Museum — Let’s Stay Inspired While We All Stay Home

Art projects and resources to inspire you and your family

Create a Found Object Color Wheel

Create a found object color wheel to learn about primary and secondary colors during an in-home scavenger hunt! We love YouTube’s Mrs. K and her kid-centered approach and even her meditation time at the end. Bigger kids can help the little ones for a great learning activity.

Art from Nature

Combine your fresh-air outings with a nature walk and art project! In spring, nature is exploding with beautiful elements just waiting to become your artistic materials.

Free kids’ online art classes:

Pressed Flower Project for Adults

Take a basket or bag on your next walk and collect colorful flowers and leaves to create a beautiful pressed flower project like the one demonstrated by YouTube’s Do It, Gurl.

ArtSPARK at Home

Our museum educators have designed a step-by-step art project for you to do at home. Share your story with us and you could win a gift basket of art supplies and goodies worth $50.00!

Community Creativity Challenge

As we all stay close to home, we encourage you to fully embrace being an “artist-in-residence.” That’s why during the month of April, we’re giving our community a new creative challenge every day. (We promise they’re fun and easy!) You can follow along on our website and even share your creations on our community creativity board for your chance to win a gift basket of art supplies and goodies!

Virtual Book Club

#MuseumFromHome

Santa Paula by Cornelis Botke, oil on canvas, Collection of the City of Santa Paula.

While the Museum remains closed, we still hope our exhibits bring some beauty and joy to your days! There’s a small exhibit currently hanging on the second floor of the Museum that we titled, quite simply, “We Love Santa Paula.” It’s comprised of paintings and photographs of Santa Paula from the Museum’s permanent art collection. We wanted to share some of those images here and say, we love Santa Paula and Ventura County! Click here to view the slideshow.

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