Presidential Family Fun Day

Visitors and their families can celebrate American commanders-in-chief over Presidents Day weekend at the Family Fun Day. From calligraphy workshops to scavenger hunts, games, music and hands-on activities, there will be something for everyone.

Schedule
Noon Linton Hall Fife and Drum Corps performance
12:30–2:30 p.m.Appearances by the Washington Nationals baseball team mascots
12:40 p.m. Lansdowne portrait spotlight
1 p.m. Linton Hall Fife and Drum Corps performance
1:30 p.m. Virginia Reel workshop
2 p.m. Meet Flora Fraser, author of The Washingtons: George and Martha: Crown’d by Friendship, Crown’d by Love
2:30 p.m. Virginia Reel workshop


Ongoing Activities
Visitors can:
• Take a scavenger hunt led by the Portrait Gallery’s Teen Museum Council
• Write love notes like George and Martha Washington—just in time for Valentine’s Day—in a calligraphy workshop
• Create and break codes, using codes that George Washington used during the Revolutionary War
• Dress and pose like George Washington in their own Lansdowne-inspired portrait
• Help make a large-scale recreation of the Lansdowne portrait
• Create their own tricorn hat
• Make a top hat in a workshop led by staff members from President Lincoln’s Cottage