Through Thu 12/31
Are your kids a little skeptical about Santa Claus? Or maybe they just find dinosaurs more fascinating, for which you can’t blame them. If they’d rather write a letter to a dinosaur — and get a response back! — they’re in luck.
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is offering kids and families the opportunity to write letters expressing their hopes for 2021 (an end to COVID!) to “Happy the Helper,” the museum’s late Jurassic Era sauropod “haplocanthosaurus delfsi.” This remains of this plant-eating giant, who was likely more than 72 feet long and weighed 25 tons, was discovered by a CMNH team in Colorado in 1954, and has become a favorite with visitors to the museum.
Happy — or someone acting on his behalf — will respond to kids’ letters via USPS to any letters received before Thursday December 31. Find a form to send a letter here.
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106