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Posted on February 15, 2024February 15, 2024 by Cristin
Arts Activities for Kids - Sydney

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I’m Cristin-my kids and I are exploring Sydney & beyond through the arts. 🎭💃🏻🎨🎵📚“What’s On Wednesday”. On Cammeraygal land
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I had a stellar time today taking Miss 9 and a cou I had a stellar time today taking Miss 9 and a couple of her friends to the Willoughby Literary Festival. We started at an epic and great spirited Illustrator Battle with @serenageddes_creative and @ramonaofjersey (referee extraordinaire @miscelleni ). They had some pretty wild prompts to work with! And Miss 9 even got to challenge Mo to a kid vs illustrator round. Heaps of fun. In the afternoon, the girls hung on @jacquelineharve ‘s every word - theres a reason she’s such a beloved storyteller. Miss 9 is currently in the middle of the first book in The Girl and the Ghost series and loving it, so she loved hearing all sorts of background info. This is the second year for the Willoughby Literary Festival and it’s been a great event (I went to a grown up session yesterday too). Run like a bunch of pros. Thanks team @willoughbycitylibrary ! @willoughbycity
SPACE PLAY at Carriageworks @carriageworks 🌟🪐🚀 Mi SPACE PLAY at Carriageworks @carriageworks 🌟🪐🚀 Miss 9 and I took a little adventure to Carriageworks to check out the interactive Space Play space. On weekdays, this is a free/drop-in activity. It’s $5 ticketed on weekends. Running on a 45 minute loop, the experience begins with a short animated film about how our young explorer girl made it to space. Then, we travel to space for a series of beautifully crafted locations, all with interactive elements projected on 3 walls. Miss 9 loved it all. There are also free colouring tables in the lobby if, like mine, your kid wants to extend the creative fun. 🖍️ Space Play is on through 25 July (closed Mondays and Tuesdays) . Full schedule of times on the Carriageworks website. @stalker_and_boxofbirds
In a week where the news of gendered violence in A In a week where the news of gendered violence in Australia has been overwhelming, I wanted to put this book into the hands of young people all over the country. HELL’S BELLS by Jared Thomas @jaredthomas6 is the third book in the Uncle XBox series and - let me start by saying - this middle grades book is not *at all* about violence. Quite the opposite. 12 year old Dusty is a great kid. He lives with his mum, baby sister and Uncle (Uncle XBox). He’s found his niche in soccer and also loves surfing, but is dealing with a loss of confidence after a bad wipe out. Surfing with Uncle XBox, his girlfriend Lil and her teenage son Taj helps Dusty to slowly regain his confidence, learning new skills and eventually landing him a spot in the Indigenous Surfing Title. This book struck me as an antidote to the attitudes that breed violence in men because we get to know Dusty as a boy who is allowed to feel his fears and uncertainties. He’s supported by positive male figures in his life - while his own father is absent, Uncle XBox and his elderly neighbor are steadfast people who he looks to for advice and role modeling. A proud Nukunu boy, Dusty finds inner pride and self-confidence from his culture and community. There are also such positive attitudes towards the girls and women he surfs with. None of this is presented in a didactic, message-y way. Another brilliant thing about this series is how clear and straightforward the writing is. Thomas strikes a rare balance of packing a lot of story and feeling into simple sentences and short chapters. These books are perfect for kids who may find chapter books intimidating or don’t really connect with very figurative language. While I don’t really believe in the idea of “boys” books, I know tween and teen boys can be a particularly tough demographic for reading, and this series is one that I think will reach some of those reluctant readers. And, for its exceptionally realistic and positive pictures of boyhood, I’d recommend them to any young reader from middle primary through high school. *Thank you to @magabalabooks for our copy of Hell’s Bells *
Miss 9 and I took ourselves to @sydneyoperahouse f Miss 9 and I took ourselves to @sydneyoperahouse for YOU & ME AND THE LAND OF LOST THINGS, based on the book by Andy Griffiths and Bill Hope. You and Me are a pair of pals who are always looking for adventures. When and Guinea Pig and a lucky charm go missing, they go on madcap mission that leads them to The Land of Lost Things, a place where there are endless lost things that imaginatively turn into exciting parts of the story. For us, this 60-minute show never reached the hilarity of the Treehouse series, but you can expect plenty of the classic Andy Griffith’s absurdity (a villain whose head is a hand ✊, a pirate rabbit with a stand-up routine and a tennis ball where his foot should be, an American tourist who wordlessly wanders through scenes, just to name a few). At its heart, this is a story about the brilliance of imaginative play - that flow state of childhood where you’re absolutely lost inside of a world of your own creation and you make the rules up as you go. 🎭You & Me and the Land of Lost things runs through 19 July at the Sydney Opera House. The recommended age is 6+. *We attended as guests of Sydney Opera House #invited Photos after the first supplied. 📸 credit to Phil Erbacher*
It’s heeeeere! ✏️SCHOOL HOLIDAYS ✏️ It’s been a b It’s heeeeere! ✏️SCHOOL HOLIDAYS ✏️ It’s been a bit full on here in the couple of weeks leading up to the end of term, and it feels like everyone I’ve talked to is also coasting in exhausted and ready for a break! Unfortunately, I had to admit defeat and, for the first time since starting the blog, could not pull a School Holidays Family Arts guide together for the blog. BUT, maybe you’ll like this just as well - a roundup of 10 of the best artsy options in Sydney these holidays. (Scroll the slideshow for the list of shows and other activities) As always, you can also pop over to artsplorers.com/Events for a calendar of Sydney family arts events. #SydneyKids #SydneyWithKids
Miss 9 spent the better part of a weekend reading Miss 9 spent the better part of a weekend reading me jokes from DUCK: Look Who’s Talking by Matt Stanton @itsmattstantonhere . 🦆 This one may be her favourite book of the year and if you have a kid who likes funny books, it could be theirs, too. She told me why she loved this one so much. *Thank you to @harperkidsau for our copy of Duck. *
“That was really *really* cool.” -Miss 13 🤸‍♀️🎺🎻🤸 “That was really *really* cool.” -Miss 13 🤸‍♀️🎺🎻🤸 Full cool points awarded to the team of LOUDER , running this weekend at @sydneyoperahouse . LOUDER is a collaboration between circus company Gravity and Other Myths @gomcircus and the Brandenburger Symponiker. More than a circus show with music, it’s a real collaboration between these two art forms. The circus work is captivating - frequent gasps of awe at the acrobatic feats - but also very funny, engaging, sometimes dark, continually surprising. The 22-piece orchestra is in full view, creating the soundscape, setting the tone and often getting in on the action. The recommended age for LOUDER is 8+. If you have a kid loves to tumble around, they will be every bit as enthusiastic as my Miss 13 was. And for the tween/teens, I really love this type of show that we can fully enjoy together, even as they are getting older. (For the younger kids, I would mention that there are few minutes that get a little intense in sound and action, so if you have an especially sensitive 8 year old, it may feel strong for them in small section). LOUDER is only on through Sunday at the Joan Sutherland Theatre - it would be a pretty impressive option for escaping the wet weather! We gratefully attended Louder as guests of Sydney Opera House. #invited 📸Photos after the first supplied - credit to Daniel Boud #sydneykids #sydneywithkids
⚽️If soccer excitement is at a fever pitch at your ⚽️If soccer excitement is at a fever pitch at yours, here is a book perfect for celebrating what is great about the game. SOCCER: I JUST LOVE IT by sports commentator Alister Nicholson @alisternicholson , illustrated by Tom Jellett follows a group of soccer loving kids around their neighborhood. In rhyming verse, the kids compare their moves to some of the games greats, including lots of our Socceroos and Matildas. It’s a love captures the purest parts of the game, from the joy of playing on a team to the play unique to the sport and the tradition of cheering for our Aussie pros. 💛💚 Whenever we get a book illustrated by Tom Jellett, I always note how much I love his kids with their bright, expressive faces and big personalities. You really get the sense of the whole neighborhood crew in his pictures. This is a love letter to all that makes soccer such a beloved game. This book is perfect to add to the reading rotation to extend the big soccer feels. ⚽️Thank you to @allenandunwin for our copy of Soccer: I Just Love It ⚽️ 🎶 Aussie kids-music pairing this one with “Move Your Body” by @pevanandsarah - gotta have those skills for soccer!🎶
Over the weekend, we spent a beautiful afternoon a Over the weekend, we spent a beautiful afternoon at Gleebooks @gleebooks_kids for Simon Howe’s @simonhoweart new book THE HOUSE THAT WALKED AWAY. Not long ago, I posted a review of his book GOING HOME, which I loved everything about. Just a glance at the cover of The House That Walked Away had me betting that this one would be equally special. Good bet. The House in question walks away because he doesn’t feel at home. He tries a lot of places, but nothing feels right - until he encounters the sweetest family who also seem to be looking for home. Home, it seems, is not always “where,” but “who.” We were so interested hearing Simon Howe talk about showing the house’s feelings, especially when houses don’t have faces to give you this visual clues. We got to give it a try ourselves. 🏠 Both of these books are going to on the shortlist of my very favourites of the year. (The House That Walked Away is published by @hardiegrantkids . Our copy is self-funded.)
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