Family Band (5+ years)
Artist: ArtPlay Staff
What kind of a family band is yours?
Use everyday items around your home – like drinking glasses, plastic containers, chop sticks and straws – to make instruments. Then be inspired by your favourite music genre to compose your own song.
Choose a name for your band name and then perform for yourself at home. Rock on fam bam!!
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Museum (6+ years)
Artist: ArtPlay Staff
Create a museum exhibition at home.
Head off outside on an exhibition expedition to collect some natural specimens (or find interesting things around the house).
Then do some scientific drawings of your specimens and get them ready for display at your… grand exhibition opening!
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Drawing with Rules (6+ years)
Artist: Briony Barr
Create an abstract drawing using simple rules.
Grab some friends or family members to try out these fun and easy drawing exercises to create your own abstract visual art masterpiece.
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Little Wing Puppets (5+ years)
Artist: Jenny Ellis
Make a bird puppet to star in your show.
Make a simple bird puppet using paper and easily accessible materials.
Then give your bird a name and a backstory… so they can star in your show!
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Haunted Home (6+ years)
Artist: Gillian Howell
Compose your own scary music using sounds from your house.
Explore all the creepy sounds your house can make. Look for squeaking or slamming doors, creaking floor-boards, scratching, rustling, brushing, fluttering or slapping sounds, and others. Some might occur as part of a normal day’s activities, but others you might invent. Don’t forget vocal sounds – sometimes these are the scariest of all!
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A Senspirational Play (5+ years)
Artist: Jodie Ahrens
Use your senses as the inspiration to make a dramatic play.
Learn how to use your senses of touch, smell and taste as a starting point for inventing stories – as you match them with characters, places and events.
Could the feel of a pine cone suggest a Park Ranger? Or the smell of incense suggest a fortune teller’s table? And the taste of a biscuit represent the school fete?
Play with different techniques to come up with your own play to practice and perform.
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Stories, Stories, Stories (5+ years)
Artist: Ailsa Wild
Explore lots of ways to write stories with some simple tips and tricks.
Use three different techniques to write stories: taking inspiration from a household object, a character with a very silly name or your own drawings.
And don’t forget to bring your stories to life by reading them aloud.
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Earth Art (5+ years)
Artist: Kathy Holowko
Create artworks outdoors with natural materials.
Be inspired by different textures, colours and shapes from the outdoors such as sticks, rocks, leaves, flowers, grasses, seeds and dirt to make your own patterns and transform them into an artwork.
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Visual Treasure Hunt (5+ years)
Artist: Charlie Sublet
Hunt for visual treasures around your everyday environment.
Use your imagination to hunt for visual treasures around inside and outside your home. Then photograph or draw something that makes you buzz!
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Dance for Babies
Artist: Sally Chance
Play with your baby to choreograph a dance.
Play with music and movement and allow your baby to lead the action - as you choreograph a playful dance with your baby.
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Get Dressed Dance (2 to 3 years)
Artist: Emma Salzano
Who thought getting dressed could be this much fun?
Use a playful game of getting dressed to choreograph a dance with your toddler.
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Boxes, Tape, Sticks and String! (2+ years)
Artist: Ben Goodes
Foster an environment for imaginative play with simple materials.
Use everyday items around your home to create an environment for building forts and fostering imaginative play.
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