A Book My Child Adores: Aaron Blabey’s The Bad Guys Series

A Book My Child Adores: Aaron Blabey’s The Bad Guys Series

To celebrate CBCA Book Week 2018, I’ve asked some of my favourite bloggers to share a book that one or more of their children adores. Sian from Teach Investigate Play has shared the books that turned around her son’s reluctance...
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Listening Ears On!: Here Comes Science by They Might Be Giants

Listening Ears On!: Here Comes Science by They Might Be Giants

We may be the family of arts explorers, according to me, but if you ask Miss 5 where her love lies, she would tell you it is science. She rattles off the names of planets with ease and spends a...
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Artsplorers Learn to Sew: A Lifetime Skill With Unexpected Lessons

Artsplorers Learn to Sew: A Lifetime Skill With Unexpected Lessons

It started with Friendly The Echidna. A few months ago, we went to one of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s fantastic school holidays programs where the project was to sew a felt animal. Honestly, I did the better part of...
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Hunting of the Snark at the Sydney Opera House

Hunting of the Snark at the Sydney Opera House

Lewis Carrol’s epic “Hunting of the Snark” is classed as a “nonsense poem,” but the musical adaptation which has landed at the Sydney Opera House from London’s West End does its best to make sense of some charmingly odd char...
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Artsplorers Meet: The Beanies!

Artsplorers Meet: The Beanies!

When our second baby was a newborn, our then 4 year old ended up watching so much TV, and I had a giant dose of Mama guilt about all that screen time. Enter Kinderling Radio, first their wonderful selection of...
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Wilde Creatures at the Sydney Opera House

Wilde Creatures at the Sydney Opera House

The other day my 5 year old tried, with limited success, to recount the plot line of a famous fairy tale. I realized that, in all my interest in choosing books for her that have modern messages and diversity, we...
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July School Holidays – Get Arts Adventuring! (Sydney)

July School Holidays – Get Arts Adventuring! (Sydney)

If you’re headed on an island holiday these July school holidays, soak up the sun, you lucky dog! But, for those of us staying put in Sydney, don’t think the winter blues are ahead. There is just a massive number...
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Listening Ears On!: The Vegetable Plot, Season One

Listening Ears On!: The Vegetable Plot, Season One

Do you have a vegetable loving kid at home? … No, me either. The Vegetable Plot is on a righteous musical mission to make veggies more interesting to kids, and maybe even convince them to eat their 5 a Day. ...
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Vivid Sydney 2018 With Kids!

Vivid Sydney 2018 With Kids!

The lights, the joy, and the crowds – Vivid Sydney is surely the biggest arts event on Sydney’s annual calendar. Most of the public displays are both free and very much family friendly, so it’s prime time for Sydney artsploring...
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Ruby’s Wish at the Sydney Opera House

Ruby’s Wish at the Sydney Opera House

Ruby’s Wish is a play for both children and adults that asks us to think about what is real, and what is imaginary, and how beautiful it is when the imaginary becomes real. Ruby is a 7 and 3/4 year old...
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