Everyday throughout the school holidays from 10.30am - 2.30pm there was an opportunity to get involved with making a bit of toy history or craft, by creating a gold necklace or even making an Indonesian shadow puppet.
This post is probably too little too late but I wanted to share in case it or something similar runs again at The Western Australian Museum in Perth's cultural centre.
It was really worth the trip to the museum and at $2 for a craft activity and day out in the city, it was great value.
The session was well run with eight large tables set up for crafting in the main exhibition area. All the tables had stencils, plenty of coloured pens and pencils, glue, scissors, rulers, sellotape, and plenty of chairs for all to join in the fun.
They had a selection of activities to choose from. We made the Lunula necklace, meaning 'little moon" in Latin. We were given four gems and some gold foil to stick onto the necklace and at the tables they was plenty of stencils and colouring pens to use to decorate it with.
The necklace is part of the 'A History of the World in 100 Objects' from the British Museum, which is on until the 18th June 2016.
The Indonesian shadow puppets were my favourite.
There was a choice of two puppets, either a princess or a warrior. We chose the princess. It came in five pieces, with three sticks and four clasps. To be honest I was a bit nervous that I was going to have a total parent fail and not be able to put it together....luckily I managed.
After we had finished decorating and assembling our puppet, we placed it behind a white screen and projector that was set up and made them move and dance.
Some of the older children made up stories and put on little performances, which we watched from the sofas provided.
The whole activity kept my toddler engaged for over forty five minutes, the puppets really captured her imagination, especially when we made the shadows in the screen. Afterwards we wandered around the rest of the museum and had coffee at the Muse café in the grounds.
The Muse café is a hidden gem serving great coffee and a wide selection of home cooked food. Outside the museum there is a musical play area, a great chance for the little ones to burn off an excess energy before catching the bus or train home. All in all we had a great day!
There are great facilities at the museum the parents room, toilets, café and baby change are all on the ground floor and it is all accessible with a pushchair.
http://museum.wa.gov.au Google maps reference: www.google.com/maps/place/Western+Australian+Museum+-+Perth/@-31.9497216,115.8616767,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xe75d502f9dd1b438
This post is probably too little too late but I wanted to share in case it or something similar runs again at The Western Australian Museum in Perth's cultural centre.
It was really worth the trip to the museum and at $2 for a craft activity and day out in the city, it was great value.
The session was well run with eight large tables set up for crafting in the main exhibition area. All the tables had stencils, plenty of coloured pens and pencils, glue, scissors, rulers, sellotape, and plenty of chairs for all to join in the fun.
They had a selection of activities to choose from. We made the Lunula necklace, meaning 'little moon" in Latin. We were given four gems and some gold foil to stick onto the necklace and at the tables they was plenty of stencils and colouring pens to use to decorate it with.
The necklace is part of the 'A History of the World in 100 Objects' from the British Museum, which is on until the 18th June 2016.
The Indonesian shadow puppets were my favourite.
There was a choice of two puppets, either a princess or a warrior. We chose the princess. It came in five pieces, with three sticks and four clasps. To be honest I was a bit nervous that I was going to have a total parent fail and not be able to put it together....luckily I managed.
After we had finished decorating and assembling our puppet, we placed it behind a white screen and projector that was set up and made them move and dance.
Some of the older children made up stories and put on little performances, which we watched from the sofas provided.
The whole activity kept my toddler engaged for over forty five minutes, the puppets really captured her imagination, especially when we made the shadows in the screen. Afterwards we wandered around the rest of the museum and had coffee at the Muse café in the grounds.
The Muse café is a hidden gem serving great coffee and a wide selection of home cooked food. Outside the museum there is a musical play area, a great chance for the little ones to burn off an excess energy before catching the bus or train home. All in all we had a great day!
There are great facilities at the museum the parents room, toilets, café and baby change are all on the ground floor and it is all accessible with a pushchair.
http://museum.wa.gov.au Google maps reference: www.google.com/maps/place/Western+Australian+Museum+-+Perth/@-31.9497216,115.8616767,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xe75d502f9dd1b438
Comments
Post a Comment