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On Sunday, January 5th, JANM rang in the New Year and the Year of the Horse with fun arts ‘n crafts, food, exciting cultural activities, and performances!

Oshogatsu Family Festival is one of JANM’s biggest events of the year, and we were glad to see so many guests come to join in on the fun. From folding a prancing horse origami, to jumping around in a horse bounce house, all of the activities celebrated the New Year and the Year of the Horse.

Thank you to all the JANM staff, volunteers, and friends who helped out at Oshogatsu Family Festival, and of course, thank you to all the guests for helping JANM kick off the New Year with a fun and exciting day!

Check out these photos from the 2014 Oshogatsu Family Festival (click on the thumbnails to see the full pictures):

Customizing a stick horse in celebration of the Year of the Horse.

Prancing around the Museum with a newly made stick horse!

Constructing a horse wall-hanging craft.

Beginning the New Year with lucky zaru soba with Kidding Around the Kitchen.

Tours of “Common Ground” are given throughout the festival.

Purchasing a fukubukuro (lucky bag). What was in your mystery grab bag?

Successfully folding a prancing horse origami with Ruthie!

Forming a line to sample some osechi-ryori, or traditional Japanese New Year foods!

World-renowned candy sculptor Shan Ichiyanagi sculpts candy into a horse.

A lucky raffle winner gets a special horse candy sculpture.

Bouncing around in a horse bounce house.

Learning how to make onigiri rice balls and entering the Onigiri Design Contest.

Rushing to finish an onigiri for the design contest!

Decorating onigiri for the Design Contest.

Common Grains presents a gift to one of the winners of the onigiri design contest.

Waiting to watch the mochitsuki demonstration.

Kodama Taiko performs a demonstration of mochitsuki, a traditional rice cake pounding ceremony.

Onigiri Design Contest winners for “Good Effort”

Onigiri Design Contest winners for “Happiest”

Onigiri Design Contest winners for most “humorous”

Onigiri Design Contest winners for “Kawaii” (Cute)

Onigiri Design Contest winners for “Personality”

Photo Credits: Richard Murakami, Caroline Jung, Russell Kitagawa, Richard Watanabe, and Tsuneo Takasugi

Check out more photos on our JANM Facebook page >>

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Don’t miss our next Target Free Family Saturdays: Aloha from Hawaii with KoAloha Ukulele on Saturday, February 8th from 11AM to 4PM. It’s FREE all day! Visit www.janm.org/target for more information.

Visit JANM for a winter-themed Target FREE Family Saturdays event on December 14th, from 11AM to 4PM! All day activities include: decorating a holiday picture frame; constructing a tiny winter wonderland to fill with seasonal cheer, and folding a winter reindeer in Ruthie’s Origami Corner.

From 11AM to 2PM join Kidding Around the Kitchen for a simple, yet delicious, Winter Wonderland cereal mix that will make a delicious snack as well as a fun home-made present the kids will be so proud to give away to family, friends, and teachers alike.

From 12PM to 2PM take a picture with Asian American Santa Claus, and don’t forget to let him know what you want for Christmas!

From 12:30PM to 2:30PM join a guided tour of JANM’s latest exhibition, Go For Broke: Japanese American Soldiers Fighting on Two Fronts (on view through March 2, 2014).

From 1PM to 3PM enjoy a ride on a horse-drawn carriage that will be fun for the whole family!

At 1PM and 3PM don’t miss Star in a Glass Jar, a winter-time story performed through kamishibai (paper drama), a Japanese art form of storytelling. The story is about an incredible adventure of one child’s letter with no address which finds its way to the other side of the world. Paper character craft to follow performance.

Photos by Russell Kitagawa, Richard Murakami, Tsuneo Takasugi, and Caroline Jung.

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Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together.

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