In the hallway between the two rooms, a long table was covered with the collected materials. Families walked along both sides of this colorful buffet and selected items to use in creating family portraits. Some worked at small tables, and others found space on the hallway floor in the room was full. With a poster board, a cool-melt glue gun, and their collected items, families began their portraits. Piven wove through the room, discussing the emerging creation. Parents and children enjoyed being creative together-using coins for eyes, magnifying glasses, soft drink tabs for braces, combs for mustaches, and drinking straws for hair. Parents had quality interactions with their children, and children had the rare opportunity to watch their parents become playful and childlike.