{"id":1050,"date":"2011-05-02T11:42:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/?p=604"},"modified":"2011-05-02T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T15:42:09","slug":"cultural-fair-at-boston-childrens-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/2011\/05\/02\/cultural-fair-at-boston-childrens-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Fair at Boston Children&#8217;s Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-618\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2011\/05\/IMG_08641-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0864\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2011\/05\/IMG_08641-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2011\/05\/IMG_08641-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2011\/05\/IMG_08641-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2011\/05\/IMG_08641.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>May 1st was a day of cultural education and fun, sponsored by Au Pair in America at the Boston Children\u2019s Museum. Over the course of the afternoon, hundreds of enthusiastic children and parents toured the exhibition, received earth and skin friendly tattoos, had their faces painted with country flags, and chatted with au pairs representing countries from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Au Pair in America Cultural Fair was truly a multi-modal event.<br \/>\nTraditional dance in authentic costume highlighted the presentation by Thailand while the German au pairs entertained visitors with traditional German spring egg craft and painting.\u00a0 South African au pairs proudly painted their country\u2019s flag on little and big smiling faces alike, while a\u00a0 colorful and tempting pi\u00f1ata dangled overt the Mexico booth.\u00a0 Au pairs from many other countries served as international teachers of the culture and beauty of their homelands as well.\u00a0 Photos of this great event are available on our cluster photos link below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s760.photobucket.com\/albums\/xx247\/Pattiestabrook\/Boston%20Cultural%20Fair%202011\/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ24\">Cultural Fair Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 1st was a day of cultural education and fun, sponsored by Au Pair in America at the Boston Children\u2019s Museum. 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