Create Playdate

Create Playdate | December 2025

Want to make art inspired by your favorite Phoenix Art Museum works on view? Create Playdate offers young artists a hands-on maker experience during their visit through our mobile, in-gallery art cart. Each week’s Create Playdate offers a fresh and fun theme featuring an artwork on view, an art making activity to do at the Museum, and kids’ projects to extend the fun at home! 

The Thorne Miniature Rooms represent a fascinating world on a tiny scale. Created at an exacting scale of one inch to one foot, several of the rooms replicate actual rooms found in the United States and Europe, while the remainder were inspired by the architecture and interior design of their respective periods and countries. Using these miniature scenes for inspiration, visitors will have an opportunity to create their own miniature, three-dimensional paper rooms that reflect the spaces that are important to them.

Create Playdate is included in general admission and no registration is required. Drop in any Saturday in December. 

Please purchase General Admission HERE.

Programs take place onsite in the galleries at Phoenix Art Museum. Create Playdate is free for members and included in general admission for the general public.

Create Playdate is made possible by First Things First, The Discount Tire Endowment for Children’s Art Programs, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs.