For Teachers

For Kids

For Families

Children's Orientation Video

For Kids

Gari Melchers Home and Studio is a fun place for kids and their families to visit. Be sure to ask for your scavenger hunt when you arrive in the Visitor's Center. Successfully find everything on your sheet and you'll win a prize.

Don't forget to ask about our art classes!

View or print out our new "Gari Melchers Timeline - A Visual History" (PDF)

Studio Activity Pages

Print out our full-color activity pages to prepare for your trip to Gari Melchers Home and Studio or to work on just for fun on a rainy day.
These pages are also available in the Studio.


photo credit: Alexandra Borys

Printable Coloring Pages

Create some art of your own! Print out coloring/story pages that not only tell you about Gari Melchers, but also give you the chance to color some of the art you can see when you visit. You can also purchase the complete coloring book in our Museum Shop.

What do you want to be when you grow up? A school principal, an astronaut, a weatherman?
Ever since Gari Melchers was a small boy growing up in Detroit, Michigan, he had just one dream, to be an artist....a great painter.

"The Story of Gari Melchers Coloring Book" (all files are in PDF format)

photo credit: Alexandra Borys

Self-Portrait ; In Holland ; The Choirmaster ; Mother and Child
The Fencer ; Mrs. Gari Melchers; Belmont; Still-Life with Watermelon
Early Spring Landscape ; Conspiracy of the Potomac ; A Native of Virginia