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Ring in the New Year and the Year of the Snake with fun arts ‘n crafts, food, exciting cultural activities, and performances!
PERFORMANCES & FEATURED ACTIVITIES
| 12PM – 5PM |
Snake Sculpture Candy Watch world-renowned candy artist Shaun Ichiyanagi make snake sculpture candy! (For children only. Candy snakes will be raffled off at the start of every hour) |
| 1PM – 3PM |
Onigiri Design Contest Learn how to make onigiri rice balls in our Onigiri Contest. Sponsored by Common Grains |
| 2:30PM & 4PM |
Mochitsuki Mochitsuki (traditional rice cake pounding ceremony) performance and demonstration by Kodama Taiko |
| 3:30PM |
Onigiri Contest Winners Announcement of Onigiri Contest winners |
ACTIVITIES
| 11AM – 5PM | Snake Jumper Jump around in our fun snake jumper! |
| 11AM – 5PM | Toddler Room Come enjoy our fun Toddler Room |
| 11AM – 5PM | Fukubukuro Sale Special fukubukuro (lucky bag) sale at the Museum Store |
| 11:30AM – 1PM | Taste and purchase different varieties of rice Sponsored by Common Grains and JRE (Japan Rice and Rice Product Export Promotion Association) |
| 12PM – 3PM | Omikuji Omikuji (sacred lottery) will let you know what kind of year to expect! |
| 1PM – 3PM | Reptile Petting Zoo Reptacular Animals presents a Reptile petting zoo! Come meet real snakes and other cool reptiles! |
| 1PM – 4PM | Face Painting Party Faces will paint your face like your favorite zodiac animal! |
| 1PM – 5PM | Zaru Soba noodles Begin the New Year with lucky zaru soba (buckwheat noodles) with Kidding Around the Kitchen |
| 2PM & 3:30PM | Learn to Play Taiko Drums Learn how to play Japanese taiko drums with Bombu Taiko! |
ALL-DAY CRAFTS (11AM – 5PM)
- Celebrate the Year of the Snake by making some slithering snakes of your own!
- Make a decorative wreath including all the Asian zodiac animals
- Ruthie’s Origami Corner: Fold your own origami snake
