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Discovery museum workshop teaches Utah kids how other cultures ring in the new year

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lucy Bagley, 4, shoots colored paint out of a squirt gun at the Discovery Gateway, during their New Years Day celebration of cultural traditions from around the world including Romania, Iran, and Myanmar. In Myanmar they celebrate the new year with a water festival. Monday, January 1, 2018.

Children celebrated the new year with a special event at the Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum on Monday.

The workshop explored the ways in which some cultures acknowledge the new year, including those in Romania, Iran and Myanmar.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lizzie Campbell, 5, works on crepe paper fire, at the Discovery Gateway, during their New Years Day celebration of cultural traditions from around the world including Romania, Iran, and Myanmar. In Iran they celebrate their new year buy building bon fires and jumping over them. Monday, January 1, 2018.