Who has the most fun at the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Trustees toast over four-course dinners, while single city dwellers meet and mingle at Apollo Circle cocktail hours. But it’s the under-10 set that really knows how to rock the Temple of Dendur. At the museum’s 12th annual family benefit, children had free reign of the museum’s first floor.

In the sculpture court, they made party hats. Near the Great Hall, they dressed up for a fashion show. Jay Gravatt, 12, enjoyed making a sundial, while 4-year-old Mariah Hesser liked dancing with her father and creating a clock.

So much activity can work up an appetite. The museum sated its future patrons with mountains of hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken fingers, and vegetable wraps. More than 1,400 adults and children attended the party, themed “As Time Goes By: From Seasons to Centuries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.”

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After a big day Monday, the energy under the tents at Bryant Park was a bit subdued yesterday – this is a marathon, not a sprint, and the ladies do it all in heels. The mix of guests included Allison Aston, who does public relations for Robert Lee Morris, and Tinsley Mortimer, who has worn Monique Lhuiller to several charity events and will likely don a gown by the same designer for the Save Venice ball on March 4. The chief executive of Monique Lhuiller, Tom Bugbee, showered attention on the buyers attending the show, such as Sunnie Spencer of Bergdorf Goodman and Renee Prince Phillip of Neiman Marcus.