We were stuffed into a yellow school bus, bun to bun in the late heat of  Southern California September. I hated every minute of it. The shaking of the seats, the smell of stinky, sweaty schoolmates, the stop and start driving of the busdriver.

We wound down the highway, air coming in through cracked windows and pulled into the park that housed all of the city’s museums. Several kids stifled groans and expectations of boredom. We filed with our field trip buddies in through the doors of the art museum.

Then, for me, the magic happened. Beautiful colors painted in bold strokes leaped from tall white walls, spilled with sunlight from vintage windows. Luscious fruit painted in dark rooms, looked ripe and vibrant even though the paint crackled with the sheer centuries of of clinging to the canvas. Tiny flowers represented as small touches of a brush, impressionist art was my favorite. It reminded me of how colors muted and morphed while I dreamed.

I was enraptured, enthralled. I wanted to know how to create those beautiful pictures, how to look at this world of science and logic and bring a little beauty to it. It inspired me then, to paint. It inspires me today, to write. A lifelong passion, born of busrides, packed lunches, and a museum. A lifetime love affair on the heels of a field trip.

I hadn’t thought about that specific trip in years, although the appreciation it spawned lives deep inside of me and is all around me. So, when Lunchables first contacted me about Project Potential, a program to give away 50 field trips, I thought “But, I’m not a mom”.

Ah, yes. But YOU are. Lunchables wants to instill the same passion in your kids that my field trip instilled in me. Field trips present things in an exciting, unexpected way and can absolutely fire interest in Science, History, Art and so many other areas into your child. Watch the video below and see what Lunchables is doing to help inspire young minds. Then get ready to nominate your kid’s class for more than just a field trip,

This is a sponsored post from Lunchables, I received financial compensation to write this post

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