Laycee Barragato-Gibson of Mission Viejo helps her son, Lorenzo Barragato-Gibson, 2, as they paint wooden ornaments in the backyard of the Potocki Center for the Arts during Family Arts Day on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Helena Ooka, 8, of Mission Viejo, creates an art fingerprint magnet at one of the arts and crafts stations during Family Arts Day at the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by (Jeff Antenor, Contributing Photographer)
Families visit various arts and crafts stations in one of the rooms at the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo during Family Arts Day, presented with support from the Kiwanis Club of Mission Viejo, on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Jesse Hartman, 2, of Mission Viejo paints a wooden ornament on the patio of the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo during Family Arts Day on Saturday, April 14, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Families come and go from the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo during Family Arts Day on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Belle Zappia, 5, of Rancho Santa Margarita, has her face painted by Christy Ryan, a youth mentor with the City of Mission Viejo Character Committee, during Family Arts Day at the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo on Saturday, April 13 2024 (Photo by Jeff Antenor, Contributing Photographer)
Tanya Anticevich leads a group of children in improvisational games in one of the rooms of the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo during Family Arts Day on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenor, Contributing Photographer)
Families visit various arts and crafts stations in one of the rooms of the Potocki Center for the Arts during Family Arts Day, presented with support from the Kiwanis Club of Mission Viejo, on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenor, Contribute photographer)
Stacey, of Aliso Viejo, and her daughter, Isabelle, 9, sit together on the patio of the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo as they paint wooden ornaments during Family Arts Day on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenor, participating photographer)
Former Mission Viejo Mayor Robert Breton, now chairman of the city’s Cultural Arts Committee, helps Helena Ooka, 8, of Mission Viejo create an art fingerprint magnet during Family Arts Day at the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenor, Contributing Photographer)
April Cannon of Placentia helps Geo Cannon, 3, create a multicolored Playdough snake at one of the arts and crafts stations hosted by the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity during Family Arts Day at the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo on Saturday, April 13, 2024 (Photo by Jeff Antenor, Contributing Photographer)
Sherry Basile, left, library specialist for the City of Mission Viejo, helps Stacey Vinson of Irvine and her children, Ethan Vinson, 3, Brooke Vinson, 6, and Hannah Vinson, 8, left, as they create magnet art using their own fingers prints during Family Arts Day at the Potocki Center in Mission Viejo on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Sunil Parekh of Mission Viejo watches as his children, Anushka Parekh, 9, left, and Anand Parekh, 7, paint wooden ornaments on the patio of the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo during Family Arts Day on Saturday, April 13, 2024 (Photo by Jeff Antenor, Contributing Photographer)
Violet White, 10, of Trabuco Canyon holds a multicolored Playdough dragon she created at one of several arts and crafts stations during Family Arts Day at the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Laycee Barragato-Gibson of Mission Viejo helps her son, Lorenzo Barragato-Gibson, 2, as they paint wooden ornaments in the backyard of the Potocki Center for the Arts during Family Arts Day on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Lulu Hallenbeck of Laguna Hills helps her granddaughter Caroline Hallenbeck, 5, learn how to draw a cartoon character step by step at one of the arts and crafts stations hosted by the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity during Family Day arts at the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, featured photographer)
Kimberly Hamm of Mission Viejo and her daughter London Hamm, 7, create resin ornaments using molds and ultraviolet light to dry them in one of the rooms at the Potocki Center for the Arts during Family Arts Day Saturday, April 13, 2024 .(Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Families visit an ornament painting station in the backyard of the Potocki Center for the Arts during Family Arts Day, presented with support from the Kiwanis Club of Mission Viejo, on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenor, Contributing Photographer)
Families got creative together Saturday at the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo.
Family Arts Day included all kinds of opportunities to create, paint and express yourself.
The Potacki Center regularly offers art activities to the community, some are one-day events, such as a pre-Mother’s Day candle-making project, and some are held over several sessions, such as a bookbinding workshop. For more information, visit cityofmissionviejo.org.
