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The Children's Museum of Western Australia

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

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25.01.2022 Are you wondering what is inside our Outside the Box (Activity Box) APRIL (New boxes available every month)? Well here it is! 7 Activities, a cut out 3D sculpture to create, materials for 3 of the activities and even some dad jokes! First boxes start getting sent out/ picked up/ hand delivered on Thursday 9 April (If the rest of the paints arrive in the post!) and the rest will follow ASAP! Perfect for 5 - 10 year olds. ... Available to order here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/outside-the-box-activity-bo See more

25.01.2022 If you're looking for a top show for the little ones (and big kids too!) at Fringeworld, then the Trash Test Dummies - Perth Fringe World are for you!

23.01.2022 I don't give many shows 5 stars, but this was just too cute not to!The season starts next week. Enjoy!

22.01.2022 Who has two thumbs and a set of keys for an amazing building in Freo that could one day be a Children's Museum??? Me! Early days yet and many steps to go...but hopefully this is the real deal... Watch this space, and cross your fingers, pray, anything you think may help!!

22.01.2022 With lots of children back at school, would it still be a good idea for us to continue the monthly Activity Box, or would you prefer one (perhaps a larger one) every holidays? We are prepared to do a May one, but just unsure, so thought we would put it out into this strange strange world we are now living in! All suggestions welcome!

22.01.2022 Todays Summer Art Camp (Ages 5 - 12) was all about getting slimy, paper chain competitions, faces, a collaborative mural and creating a puppet show! Tomorrow will be completely different! New activities every day - sign up for one or multiple days.

22.01.2022 We have just added a small bunch of new Kids Camera Club Workshops (Cottesloe and the City) and Meet the Masters Art Classes, both in the school holidays, and during term time, even with Thursday classes for home school families to partake in. Book now! More events to come next week, stay tuned!

22.01.2022 So many activities today! We had a bit of an Aussie art day, painting en plein air (outside) like the Heidelberg artists, and using some indigenous painting techniques to create layered art work! Last day of Summer Art Camp for these holidays tomorrow!

22.01.2022 Well the funnies are ready for our first edition of our Outside the Box Activity Box! Each box contains instructions and some materials for 7 activities! Fun with food, an Easter craft, info and activities on a featured artist, learning an old skill and a fun language and conversation task. Not to mention the 3D templates to put together... and the jokes! Orders can be placed until May 1st from https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/outside-the-box-activity-bo Boxes start getting sent from Thursday 9 April.

21.01.2022 2 more workshops left!

21.01.2022 Today's Summer Art Camp (Ages 5 - 12) was all about experimenting with raised salt painting, marbelling paper, learning how to turn oil pastels into paint, and a little art history and activities based on Sonia Delaunay, with a story about the amazing Yayoi Kusama thrown in! See you next week folks! Some spots still available.

21.01.2022 Thursday is set to be a sunny 20 degrees in the city, a perfect day for a camera workshop walkabout! Book your tickets on Eventbrite! We will wander through Elizabeth Quay, Brookfield Place and the terrace, taking shots of water, wildlife, architecture shots, city views and more!

21.01.2022 Another sample of the activities in This months 'Out of the Box' Activity Box! (Not everything is shown here). Available to order here https://www.thechildrensmuseumofwa.org/shop

20.01.2022 Do your kids love photography? We have two Kids Camera Club workshops coming up next week! The 1st, on Monday 5th October is at the amazing Canning Eco Education Centre. We have a look at their little museum, and take a bushwalk through the gorgeous wetlands, stopping at different interest points along the way. Our resident Photography teacher Cyrus can spot crazy bugs, hidden birds and other wildlife from a hundred paces, so all sorts of opportunities arise for our budding photographers! Bring a camera, phone, tablet, whatever! Come and walk with your kids or just drop them off. For more info and tickets, check out https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/kids-camera-club-nature-tra

20.01.2022 It doesnt look like schools are closing at the moment, but for those that may keep children at home either during school time or holidays, a site that I use a lot as a teacher has an amazing offer available... details below. The code for free resources is: www.twinkl.co.uk/offer Hello, As the Coronavirus spreads, were aware that more schools are closing and pupils learning is being disrupted. Parents, carers and teachers are looking for ways to ensure the continuity of edu...cation during school closures so that no children miss out on valuable learning time. To support you during this period, Twinkl is offering every teacher in Australia access to all Twinkl resources with a One Month Ultimate Membership, totally free of charge. Were also extending this to every parent and carer in your school so your pupils can still have access to high-quality learning during any periods of disruption. Setting this up is really easy to do - go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code AUSTRCODE Wed like your support to get this message out. Please let your wider school and leadership team know about this opportunity so that you can all share it with your school community. Please also share this code with parents and share the link above on your website so parents know where to activate their code. Weve also put together some helpful guidance to outline a few ideas for how you can support parents and carers during school closures, ensure high quality learning continues and support teachers, parents and carers to make the most from this offer of help. If you are an existing Twinkl subscriber on Core or Extra you will be able to use this code to upgrade your current membership using the same link as above. Its easy to arrange access yourself through our website. If you do have any questions please get in touch with our TwinklCares team. As we are supporting people globally please bear in mind that we are receiving a large number of enquiries so please only get in touch if your enquiry is of an urgent nature at [email protected] You can also visit our website - www.twinkl.co.uk Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the Coronavirus outbreak and we hope that this will go some way towards helping. Best wishes, Jonathan Seaton Twinkl CEO

20.01.2022 Today's Art Camp was messy! We did paper mache, plaster of paris, positive and negative (Chillida), painting with scissors (Matisse) and wire sculptures and jewellery (Calder). Spots available for Wednesday at Kerry Street Community School and Thursday at Victoria Park Community Centre!

19.01.2022 Hello everyone! Truth be told we have not organised any holiday classes or workshops (yet), as right up until two days before Christmas we were in talks about getting a building... but these processes are a bit slower than hoped! If we were to organise art classes and photography workshops and put them up over the next few days - would ya come or are we too late?

19.01.2022 Happy 2020 everybody! Talk about timing - Yesterday we received the best email ever and we are now an officially recognised Incorporated Association/Non for Profit! We can now apply for grants and funding and while we will keep looking for investors to help us get a building, as well as putting on smaller events to build income and spread the word, this puts us one step closer to putting on bigger and better events and eventually creating the full dream! This year's gonna be a good one!

19.01.2022 If you are looking for things to do between now and Sunday on these rainy holidays, head to Kids Wonderland under the big top in Stirling and check out the Alice in Wonderland maze we created!

18.01.2022 Wednesday 7 October we have our CITY Kids Camera Workshop! We get to explore, sculpture, architecture, public art and more! These workshops are all about teaching some new skills and building interest, so that budding artists can be inspired! Still spots left! See you tomorrow under The Cactus (big green sculpture in Forest Place)!

18.01.2022 The Summer Art Camp (Ages 5 - 12) is about children learning about the processes of art, rather than making beautiful end products. We want to help people think and engage creatively by exploring with materials, working on collaborative art and learning new skills by experimenting. This is all about growing confidence, taking risks, welcoming the unexpected and helping new ideas and interests develop. We go through some art history every day to look at how masters of the f...ield used patterns, colour, texture etc, then we let children explore the process - last week everyone was working on their 2D patterns, when one child saw another using patterned paper to make 3D shapes, which then sparked ideas in other minds to make their own 3D patterns! It was amazing! There is no right or wrong in art and we are trying to take this away from product art like they often focus on at school, and open up the learning experiences! Process art is not only important in Early Childhood, but for older kids too, and each task can be tailored to suit all ages. For more about process art, head to https://tinkerlab.com/what-is-process-art-for-kids/ See more

18.01.2022 Do you have little animals? Make them an awesome art gallery like this clever soul did!

17.01.2022 Today's Summer Art Camp (Ages 5 - 12) was all about getting slimy, paper chain competitions, faces, a collaborative mural and creating a puppet show! Tomorrow will be completely different! New activities every day - sign up for one or multiple days.

17.01.2022 If you are doing anything to commemorate Anzac Day today, here is a simple wreath that just kids, or the whole family could get involved in making - using handprints, black dots and red cutouts or circles (however you fancy!). Also a short video about what Anzac Day is all about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rapkYgnXxWA

16.01.2022 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT! For anyone who has kids, or is a big kid inside (I have seen this show twice), GO AND SEE 'NEW OWNER', by wonderful WA company The Last Great Hunt. It is on for two more days at the Octagon (UWA), and is a completely magical tale! BOOK HERE:

16.01.2022 Tomorrow is set to be a lovely 21 degrees, perfect for our Kids Camera Club NATURE TRAIL Workshop (Ages 5 - 10) at the beautiful Canning River Eco Education Centre. Here are some photos taken by a mini photographer on a previous walk - her mum put them all in these gorgeous little collages! Spots still available - click the above link for info.

16.01.2022 Here are some of the fun shots taken by our intrepid photography leader Cyrus Roussilhes on our Kids Camera urban adventure walk through the city last week!

16.01.2022 Tuesday (tomorrow) we start 3 more days of Art Camp! Its called Art Camp not because you have to come every day, but because parents can drop kids off for 5 whole hours of freedom! Tuesday and Thursday we are at Victoria Park Community Centre and Wednesday we will be at Kerry Street Community School! Tomorrows activities include paper mache, plaster of paris, learning all about Henri Matisse and how he painted with paper, wire sculptures and more!

16.01.2022 Tomorrows Art Camp includes a collaborative painting based on workshops by Herve Tullet, art history activities based on Eduardo Chillida (positive and negative painting) and Matisse (painting with scissors/collage), foam printing and miniature watercolour paintings... With art games and activities in between! Limited spots left at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/summer-art-camp-ages-5-12-t

16.01.2022 Well the funnies are ready for our first edition of our 'Outside the Box' Activity Box! Each box contains instructions and some materials for 7 activities! Fun with food, an Easter craft, info and activities on a featured artist, learning an old skill and a fun language and conversation task. Not to mention the 3D templates to put together... and the jokes! Orders can be placed until May 1st from https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/outside-the-box-activity-bo Boxes start getting sent from Thursday 9 April.

15.01.2022 Todays Summer Art Camp (Ages 5 - 12) was all about experimenting with raised salt painting, marbelling paper, learning how to turn oil pastels into paint, and a little art history and activities based on Sonia Delaunay, with a story about the amazing Yayoi Kusama thrown in! See you next week folks! Some spots still available.

14.01.2022 This coming Tuesday and Wednesday are the last two days for Summer Art Camp. Children are welcome one or both days! This week we will be model making, embossing, mono-printing, painting en plein air and much more! We will also be looking at masters of their craft like Zaha Hadid, Vivienne Westwood, Andy Warhol and iconic indigenous artist Emily Kngwarreye. Tickets available at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/summer-art-camp-ages-5-12-t

14.01.2022 Todays Art Camp was messy! We did paper mache, plaster of paris, positive and negative (Chillida), painting with scissors (Matisse) and wire sculptures and jewellery (Calder). Spots available for Wednesday at Kerry Street Community School and Thursday at Victoria Park Community Centre!

14.01.2022 6 days of holiday Art Camp done and dusted! It never ceases to amaze me how kids walk in knowing nobody and quickly start chatting, making friends and helping each other. It's a beautiful thing to watch and we have had some great groups these holidays! Art Camp is all about learning through fun - art history stories with process art activities and some play and climbing thrown in. Huge thanks to Victoria Park Community Centre and Kerry Street Community School for hosting us, and Sally Renshaw - without whom this would be impossible. See ya'll next holidays! X Victoria

13.01.2022 Today's Art Camp was messy! We did paper mache, plaster of paris, positive and negative (Chillida), painting with scissors (Matisse) and wire sculptures and jewellery (Calder). Spots available for Wednesday at Kerry Street Community School and Thursday at Victoria Park Community Centre!

13.01.2022 Tune in to ABC Perth @ 9.20am to listen to why The Children's Museum of Western Australia would be a perfect fit at the East Perth Power Station! It's a long shot - but hey, people gotta dream! They are in major buildings all across America and Europe, revitalise and energise areas where they are positioned and help communities - it's a win win!

13.01.2022 Art Camp details are up and tickets are on sale now. :) Every day will be different, so children can be enrolled in one or multiple days!

12.01.2022 Today at Summer Art Camp, we traced around bodies to make a huge collaborative drawing, looked at the collage techniques of Henri Matisse, studied positive and negative space through the eyes of Eduardo Chillida, read a story about Frida Kahlo and experimented with water colours and borders. More experimenting with different techniques tomorrow!

12.01.2022 4 more days to catch this little cracker of a show, great for really young ones.

11.01.2022 The first two days of Art Camp have been full of Keith Haring stories and pictures, paper mosaics, crazy faces and looking at the old Masters... With stories and play thrown into the mix! Spots still available tomorrow at Victoria Park Community Centre, and again next week at Kerry Street Community School and Victoria Park Community Centre .

11.01.2022 If you have children 6 or over, take them along to the latest production by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, The Farmers Daughter. It’s a truly gorgeous little story and is a great way to introduce children to the wonder of theatre!

11.01.2022 Another sample of the activities in This months Out of the Box Activity Box! (Not everything is shown here). Available to order here https://www.thechildrensmuseumofwa.org/shop

11.01.2022 A fun, cheap idea for today (now that paper towels are easy enough to find in the shops again)!

11.01.2022 It doesn't look like schools are closing at the moment, but for those that may keep children at home either during school time or holidays, a site that I use a lot as a teacher has an amazing offer available... details below. The code for free resources is: www.twinkl.co.uk/offer Hello, As the Coronavirus spreads, were aware that more schools are closing and pupils learning is being disrupted. Parents, carers and teachers are looking for ways to ensure the continuity of edu...cation during school closures so that no children miss out on valuable learning time. To support you during this period, Twinkl is offering every teacher in Australia access to all Twinkl resources with a One Month Ultimate Membership, totally free of charge. Were also extending this to every parent and carer in your school so your pupils can still have access to high-quality learning during any periods of disruption. Setting this up is really easy to do - go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code AUSTRCODE Wed like your support to get this message out. Please let your wider school and leadership team know about this opportunity so that you can all share it with your school community. Please also share this code with parents and share the link above on your website so parents know where to activate their code. Weve also put together some helpful guidance to outline a few ideas for how you can support parents and carers during school closures, ensure high quality learning continues and support teachers, parents and carers to make the most from this offer of help. If you are an existing Twinkl subscriber on Core or Extra you will be able to use this code to upgrade your current membership using the same link as above. Its easy to arrange access yourself through our website. If you do have any questions please get in touch with our TwinklCares team. As we are supporting people globally please bear in mind that we are receiving a large number of enquiries so please only get in touch if your enquiry is of an urgent nature at [email protected] You can also visit our website - www.twinkl.co.uk Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the Coronavirus outbreak and we hope that this will go some way towards helping. Best wishes, Jonathan Seaton Twinkl CEO

11.01.2022 Update: I have now finished uni (Grad Dip Education EC) and another major work contract, and along with relief teaching am full steam ahead into moving forward with CMOWA once more, back looking for buildings and starting workshops/classes and events - so really watch this space! In other news, a Children's Museum has just opened in Melbourne... so this is even more proof that big cities and families everywhere need and deserve these incredible spaces! Chat soon!

11.01.2022 Today’s Kids Camera Club walks through the city were quite simply, brilliant fun! Great kids, fabulous parents, some perfectly timed random skateboarders and even a mini tour of the incredible His Majesty's Theatre, Perth, lots of street art and architecture shots. We hope you all had a great time and got a lot out of it! Thanks again to Cyrus Roussilhes, the best photography instructor around! More workshops and classes to be announced soon. Have a great rest of the school holidays everyone!

10.01.2022 Tomorrow is set to be a lovely 21 degrees, perfect for our Kids Camera Club NATURE TRAIL Workshop (Ages 5 - 10) at the beautiful Canning River Eco Education Centre. Here are some photos taken by a mini photographer on a previous walk - her mum put them all in these gorgeous little collages! Spots still available - click the above link for info.

09.01.2022 BUILDING UPDATE: The sad news is Heathcote is no longer an option. As quoted in an email I received yesterday, "we have had some difficulty over the Conditions on Title that determine the use of the site and unfortunately the Children’s Museum currently does not fit these conditions. We have appealed to the State Government but have not had clear direction." Heathcote Cultural Centre have decided not to award leases to anyone who applied to be there for longer than a one yea...r lease, as they are unsure of how the site will be used long term. This is just a hiccup, so now our hunt for a building continues, and we are hoping to find a mobile vehicle (like the examples shown below) to take some amazing interactive activities and exhibitions out on the road in the meantime (and beyond)... so as usual, watch this space! If anyone has ideas regarding suitable spaces, buildings, or has a spare caravan lying around, please send a private message, or email [email protected] See more

09.01.2022 The school holidays are here and our first art classes, in association with Victoria Park Community Centre start on Tuesday! Sign up for one day, or multiple! Suitable for all creative kids between 5 and 10. Each day will be different, with a mixture of art history and learning new arty techniques!

09.01.2022 The City Of Joondalup is holding a Daddy and Daughter Hair Workshop as part of the Adorn public program, at the Currambine Community Centre, so if any Daddy's out there need some helpful tips, this would be such a lovely event!

08.01.2022 There are two articles in The West Australian today about the importance of play to development. What better place to play than a Children’s Museum!!!!! Just another reason and even more proof that this is the perfect time to create one here in WA... our children need it!!!

08.01.2022 Mini Update: This year started strong with the introduction of our Summer Art Camp Classes. We started our hunt again for a suitable building for the bigger museum idea, as well as somewhere permanent to hold classes and other activities - and were making headway until Covid hit, then all doors seemed to shut once more. The dream of starting what I want to be a large scale and very beautifully crafted and thought out project - unlike any Perth has seen specifically dedicated... to children before - is a longer one than initially imagined. Real life and work takes time from the main focus, and this year has been crazy for everyone. In these upcoming holidays I have decided not to do the day long art classes, but take the time to email/call and conduct meetings in order to concentrate on finding a building and re-focusing on the bigger picture. We will be holding some Kids Camera Workshops in week 2 of these holidays, and will plan another Art Camp (in more venues) and more classes and events in the summer - and maybe even during term time - so watch this space! Thank you for following this journey, coming to classes and watching this all grow and evolve (fingers crossed) - however slowly this may seem! See more

07.01.2022 21 degrees, sunny with patches of cloud... what a perfect day to photograph wildflowers!! Some spots left!

07.01.2022 So many activities today! We had a bit of an Aussie art day, painting 'en plein air' (outside) like the Heidelberg artists, and using some indigenous painting techniques to create layered art work! Last day of Summer Art Camp for these holidays tomorrow!

07.01.2022 Tuesday (tomorrow) we start 3 more days of Art Camp! It's called Art Camp not because you have to come every day, but because parents can drop kids off for 5 whole hours of freedom! Tuesday and Thursday we are at Victoria Park Community Centre and Wednesday we will be at Kerry Street Community School! Tomorrows activities include paper mache, plaster of paris, learning all about Henri Matisse and how he 'painted with paper', wire sculptures and more!

07.01.2022 Activity Packs full of fun and learning are being made as we speak... Pre-Orders and more info available very soon!Activity Packs full of fun and learning are being made as we speak... Pre-Orders and more info available very soon!

07.01.2022 Today was the last day of our first ever Summer Art Camp! We will aim to be back, in venues across Perth over all upcoming holidays this year and going forward. Today we created a giant communal feast, copied some of the Masters (Mondrian and Modigliani shown here), learnt how to print like Andy Warhol and did a little architectural model making! An enormous thanks to the Queen of all things artistic, Sally Renshaw for being so amazing, to Kerry Street Community School for hosting us and to all the kids and families who got involved and came along! See ya next holidays!

06.01.2022 May has been a crazy month for the whole world seemingly, so sadly we have not been able to get a May Activity Box ready (as school went back earlier than expected and I had two programs to plan!), but from June onward they will be monthly! We have set up a new dedicated website, rescheduled meetings that were cancelled (for hopefully getting a building) and are planning art classes for the upcoming holidays - all being good! In the meantime, you can order boxes for June from today. No photos of what is in it yet, but there are jokes, mobile and sculpture making activities and more! More info to come, but please pass on info of our new website and Activity Boxes on to any friends who may be interested!

06.01.2022 Our OUT OF THE BOX Activity Boxes will be ready to send next week, with expected delivery between the 15th and 17th of April! $35 plus postage. We aim to provide opportunities for children to learn about the world around them and explore new ideas. This box not only has activities, it has ideas of how to extend the projects with your child, do their own examples and take things to the next level.... Some children will do exactly what is in the box - and some will go 'outside the box' to explore, discover, create and learn even more, allowing them to develop their own interests, solve problems and improve their skills. This box Contains: - Art History notes on an individual artist - with accompanying activity (material provided) - Mini stack of jokes and riddles - Activity - Making art with food - The power of Idioms - One old school craft to learn (material provided) - 1 x crazy delicious recipe card - A lesson on limericks - Template to create a 3D masterpiece (from the box!)... and more! LIMITED SUPPLY AVAILABLE. ***** Every month, the box will be different! WE HOPE YOU LOVE IT! Boxes can be posted, or picked up from Hamilton Hill (near Freo).

06.01.2022 The last day of Week 2 at Summer Art Camp includes another huge collaborative drawing, cubist still lifes, photo collages and more! Last week for the holidays (Tuesday & Wednesday) next week. Spots still available!

06.01.2022 Mini Update: This year started strong with the introduction of our Summer Art Camp Classes. We started our hunt again for a suitable building for the bigger museum idea, as well as somewhere permanent to hold classes and other activities - and were making headway until Covid hit, then all doors seemed to shut once more. The dream of starting what I want to be a large scale and very beautifully crafted and thought out project - unlike any Perth has seen specifically dedicated... to children before - is a longer one than initially imagined. Real life and work takes time from the main focus, and this year has been crazy for everyone. In these upcoming holidays I have decided not to do the day long art classes, but take the time to email/call and conduct meetings in order to concentrate on finding a building and re-focusing on the bigger picture. We will be holding some Kids Camera Workshops in week 2 of these holidays, and will plan another Art Camp (in more venues) and more classes and events in the summer - and maybe even during term time - so watch this space! Thank you for following this journey, coming to classes and watching this all grow and evolve (fingers crossed) - however slowly this may seem! See more

06.01.2022 Hi everyone. We have been very quiet on here for a long while but have no fear the dream is still there! I went back to uni to get my grad dip in Education, to add to my Arts Management and Interior Architecture degrees, and have been working in schools to build up even more knowledge for what the Children's Museum needs to be and should be! Of course there is still lots of work going on behind the scenes...and now I have a more realistic vision of how long this may take to ...become a reality, but am pushing on with the big dream - meeting people, hunting for places, building ideas and gaining experience. From April we will start running art classes and hopefully doing bigger and better events as the year continues, working towards a building at every step possible. Slowly but surely!!!!!!!

06.01.2022 Our June 'Outside the Box' Activity Box is ready to order and will be posted ASAP until orders stop on June 30! This months focus artist is Alexander Calder - the kinetic king! The box includes: Curious Questions to ask the family 10 hilarious joke cards... Info sheet about Alexander Calder Examples of Alexander Calder's work Instructions how to make wire sculptures 2 x circus backgrounds for your wire/bead circus 2 x pots of beads, 1 x pot air dry clay 3 different types of wire for your sculptures Coat hanger + fishing wire for butterfly mobile 8 x butterfly templates + card for butterfly mobile Annotated doll template and pins How to make friendship bracelets + wool and beads A fudge recipe with a difference! and last but not least, a circus wordsearch. All for a mere $40 plus postage from https://www.thechildrensmuseumofwa.org/shop See more

05.01.2022 Todays Kids Camera Workshop at Cottesloe Beach was just lovely! Thanks to all the families who came, we hope you had a ball... and to see you at future workshops!

05.01.2022 Watch this space for details of our upcoming Summer Art Camp! 1 and 2 day courses to get children inspired through art and nature, and more importantly give parents a break during the holidays!

04.01.2022 Tomorrow's Art Camp includes a collaborative painting based on workshops by Herve Tullet, art history activities based on Eduardo Chillida (positive and negative painting) and Matisse (painting with scissors/collage), foam printing and miniature watercolour paintings... With art games and activities in between! Limited spots left at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/summer-art-camp-ages-5-12-t

03.01.2022 We were just getting ready to announce school holiday art workshops in 4 different suburbs around Perth, but are now reconsidering due to all that is going on. What do you think we should do? Would you send your children to classes/activities/workshops these holidays? All thinking out loud accepted... These are unprecedented times!

03.01.2022 Our June Outside the Box Activity Box is ready to order and will be posted ASAP until orders stop on June 30! This months focus artist is Alexander Calder - the kinetic king! The box includes: Curious Questions to ask the family 10 hilarious joke cards... Info sheet about Alexander Calder Examples of Alexander Calders work Instructions how to make wire sculptures 2 x circus backgrounds for your wire/bead circus 2 x pots of beads, 1 x pot air dry clay 3 different types of wire for your sculptures Coat hanger + fishing wire for butterfly mobile 8 x butterfly templates + card for butterfly mobile Annotated doll template and pins How to make friendship bracelets + wool and beads A fudge recipe with a difference! and last but not least, a circus wordsearch. All for a mere $40 plus postage from https://www.thechildrensmuseumofwa.org/shop See more

03.01.2022 Looking for fun activities for the little tykes these holidays? Look no further! Starts next Tuesday. Book in for one day, or multiple.

03.01.2022 This Saturday we have two Kids Camera Club events coming up at Cottesloe Beach! The forecast is for a sunny 20 degrees, so book soon to get in on the adventure!

02.01.2022 A little drawing inspiration for these days... follow it up with writing a story or poem about the picture, turn it into a cartoon... so many options to extend these!

02.01.2022 If you came to our Kids Camera Club walkabout in Kings Park - or even if you didn't, take a look at some of the photographs taken by our intrepid Photography Teacher Cyrus Roussilhes on the day! Just incredible! These walkabouts are all about getting children to see details, looking at objects and landscapes in different ways, peaking an interest and developing some skills. Somehow in the middle of chatting and teaching, Cyrus had time to develop and take his own shots. :)

02.01.2022 The newest Children's Museum to open in the USA opened a couple of weeks ago... called the 'Creative Play Lab', it is still a work in progress and they desperately need staff ($$$) but the bones are there and they did it with a budget of $3000 & a LOT of volunteer hours from a core group of hard-core women! This is inspirational... although we aim very very high, there is nothing wrong with starting small - as long as kids are creating and playing and inventing and learning! #lifegoals

02.01.2022 Today's Kids Camera Club Workshop in the city was awesome! A great group of kids, some interesting parts of the city explored and new skills learnt and ideas generated! See y'all next holidays! Huge thanks to the amazing Cyrus!

02.01.2022 If you think The Children’s Museum of WA is a fabulous idea and would like to help us get it off the ground, we are looking for members to join an informal yet important Steering Committee! Meetings would be monthly, and members would help come up with ideas for events, venues, possible exhibitions, give financial and business advice and help uncover other possible directions and avenues to help take this important venture forward - as many brains are indeed better than one! If you are a parent, teacher, educator or interested in any way, please contact Victoria @ [email protected] for more information. Thank you so much and looking forward to hearing from you!

01.01.2022 6 days of holiday Art Camp done and dusted! It never ceases to amaze me how kids walk in knowing nobody and quickly start chatting, making friends and helping each other. Its a beautiful thing to watch and we have had some great groups these holidays! Art Camp is all about learning through fun - art history stories with process art activities and some play and climbing thrown in. Huge thanks to Victoria Park Community Centre and Kerry Street Community School for hosting us, and Sally Renshaw - without whom this would be impossible. See yall next holidays! X Victoria

01.01.2022 Well having the first review and being sent a photo of a little tacker hard at work on one of the activities warms the cockles of our hearts! The April Box is on sale until May 1. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/outside-the-box-activity-bo