Creative ways to enjoy the school holidays with kids at home

Aspiring young filmmakers can learn a range of filmmaking and production skills through ACMI’s Film It toolkit. ACMI also has a range of resources to help you learn how to craft your own claymation characters, invent a wacky contraption and create your own stop motion animation, when you discover the Magic of Aardman. 

The NGV is providing free creative experiences so kids can tune in to virtual art classes, download activity sheets and take artistic inspiration from home. Find out more. 

Each week, the team at Craft Victoria release a new creative activity to foster important creative skills and beat boredom. Get crafty here.

Arts Centre Melbourne will keep young people singing, dancing and making music with “Move, Make, Create" – a series of online workshops – and a “Choose Your Own Variety” special hosted by Ali McGregor with special guests Frank Woodley, The Listies and Dane Simpson. Find out more. 

Join the State Library Victoria every Wednesday at 9.30am for stories, songs, and picture books in the live-stream Storytime featuring Victorian authors. You can also catch-up on past episodes, download activity sheets or do an online jigsaw puzzle. Find out more.

Live Penguin TV is a nightly live stream of Phillip Island’s much-loved Penguin Parade, with expert commentary. Watch them waddle from 6pm here.

From making slime to learning about Indigenous astronomy, Scienceworks experiments will keep you entertained. Want to make magnets at home? Bake biscuits that look like the galaxy? How about painting a Nebula? You can even make your own slime! Check it out here.

For a full program of free and low-cost online events, activities and attractions these school holidays, visit www.together.vic.gov.au/school-holidays-activities.