The 4th annual Noon Year's Eve celebration is a midday event featuring ball and balloon drops, as well as hands-on educational activities and musical entertainment. It's the feature fundraiser for the Pikes Peak Children's Museum. Tickets were purchased for $13 per family.
"They're gonna walk around and have different booths of doing a lot of hands on fun, because that's what a children's museum is all about is the inter-activity," said Kelly Parthen of the Children's Museum board. "So even though it might just look like they're painting faces, there's usually a lesson that goes along with it."
Though the museum is only in the planning stages, events like Noon Year's Eve are to show to city leaders that there is a base for supporting such an endeavor.
"Out of the top 50 cities in the U.S., there are only 8 that don't have a children's museum and Colorado Springs is one of them," says Parthern.
With the future of such a museum unknown, the children at Noon Year's Eve were making the best of the makeshift museum attractions. everyone got to celebrate the coming if a new year, and nobody had to stay up past bedtime.
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