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Museum to host a Dinosaur Christmas

Event set for Saturday, Dec. 14 at Clack Museum

Some special visitors are at the H. Earl Clack Museum, inviting people to a special Christmas event.

Christmas dinosaurs are now at the museum.

"They're there to advertise our Christmas event a week from Saturday," Clack Museum Board Chair Judi Dritshulas said.

She said Clack Foundation Board member Thora Beck and her husband, Ken Beck, and son, Trevor, made the festive dinosaurs to put in the museum.

Dritshulas said the event the festive dinosaurs are promoting, A Dinosaur Christmas, will run from 1 to 3 p.m. Dec. 14 and will include another new tenant of the museum, the albertosaurus-head replica displayed over the paleontology exhibits.

Dritshulas said the children at the event will vote to name the display, selecting from a list of names submitted by children.

"We're going to make this a very serious thing," she added, with each child only getting one vote and a true election atmosphere to the selection.

Children have selected the names of several other exhibits in the museum, including Ducky, a display of locally found infant duck-billed lambeosaurus fossils, Melvin, the 1/10th size casting of an infant maiasaura, and Stigy, the casting of a stygimoloch head the museum won in a Montana Dinosaur Trail contest.

The children at the event will have several activities, including the main event, making dinosaur gingerbread houses. They also will make dinosaur Christmas decorations and decorate dinosaur sugar cookies that Gary & Leo's Fresh Foods will bake for the event, Dritshulas said.

Dinosaur stories will be read to the children, and local author and Museum Board Member Gary Wilson will be autographing his newest book, "Adventure Tales of Montana's Last Frontier."

 

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