School holiday activities
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Easter Bilby Ambassadors

Special Event | Updated 1 decade ago

Become an Easter Bilby Ambassador! Find out why the Easter Bilby is perfectly adapted  for the exciting and prestigious job of delivering Easter treats in Australia. Take part in a native animal puppet show and play Western Woodland games. Decorate your own official Bilby Ambassador Identification card. Learn how you can love your local wildlife and hunt for Easter treasure in the Museum's native garden!

Cost: $5.00, Ages: 8 and under.
Bookings required - (08) 9021 8533

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Riddled with Rats!

Special Event | Updated 1 decade ago

The Shipwreck Galleries are Riddled With Rats! Help us find these pesky and adventurous sailors before they nibble all of our ship’s biscuits! With the sharp eyes of a Rat Detective, you’ll have to search high and low to find these experts at hide-and-seek. Then decorate your own papercraft Pirates Ahoy costume kit, including a pretty parrot for a squawking shoulder ship-mate!

No bookings necessary except groups of 10 or more

Ages: 4 years and above

Cost:
$2 for Riddled With Rats trail
$2 for Pirates Ahoy! activity

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Wings Wings and Sails

Special Event | Updated 1 decade ago

Tuesday 10 April – Friday 20 April (excluding weekends)
Activities between 10.00am and 2.00pm

Kaarakin Cockatoo Recovery Centre sessions Wednesday 11 and 18 at 11.00am

Capture the amazing power of the wind with both wings and sails this holidays! You can decorate your soaring Sea Eagle Kite, or explore the winning speed of a winged keel and super sails with our Australia II Hats activity. Decorate our amazing range of WA creatures from sea to sandy deserts with the Threatened Species Panorama.

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Sea City

Special Event | Updated 1 decade ago

UNDER THE SEA
Explore the fantastic facts and mysterious myths of creatures in the watery world under the sea. Start with a visit to Sea City- a place of activity, discovery and lots of fun for children and their families!

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School holidays at Kalgoorlie-Boulder

Special Event | Updated 1 decade ago

Photo frame your holidays
9 January – 27 January 2012 (weekdays only)
Activities between 1pm - 3pm

Children can join in this fun photo frame activity to creative their very own beautiful, ornate mini frame. Using plaster casting, participants will be able to add their special touch to their frame – turning any holiday photograph into a work of art!

Ages: 5yrs +
Bookings: 9021 8533 or email eomog@museum.wa.gov.au
Cost: $5

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School holidays at Albany

Special Event | Updated 1 decade ago

Above and Below the Waves
18th December – 31st January 2011
Activities daily between 10.00am and 4.30pm

In the Discovery Centre, hands on activities include marvelous mollusk mania, experiments with ballast, balance and buoyancy, a challenging Surf T-Shirt design competition with great prizes, a hang ten challenge, predator prowl and many, many more.

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Extraordinary from the ordinary

Special Event | Updated 1 decade ago

9 January – 22 January 2012
Activities between 10.00am – 2.00pm

Children can be a part of museum history by creating something extraordinary out of ordinary things.

Working together with FIBRANT, a community arts organisation, children can use ordinary objects and materials to create an extraordinary object. The final product will even become part of the Museum’s collection!

Cost: Free
Ages: 4+

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Extraordinary Stories - Activity Tunnel

Special Event | Updated 1 decade ago

3 January – 31 January 2012
Activities between 10.00am – 3.00pm Monday - Friday
Activities between 10.00am
– 12.30pm and 12.30pm – 3.00pm Saturday & Sunday

Venture down into the activity tunnel and create some treasures of your own that can keep you telling stories for years to come! Don’t forget to write home about your discoveries and seal it for safety. 

Cost: $5 per child for all activities
Ages: 4+

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Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum - FREE activity posters

Special Event | Updated 1 decade ago

15 December 2011 – 31 January 2012 (closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day)
Activities between 9.30am – 4.45pm

Children can explore the Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum exhibition and see 1.8 million years of human history ‘come alive’ these holidays.

Entry to the exhibition is free, and there are three different fun activity posters that will keep children entertained as the fascinating stories from the exhibition unfold.

Cost: Free
Ages: 5+

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Discovery Centre - School Holidays

Special Event | Updated 1 decade ago

15 December 2011 – 31 January 2012 (closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day)
Activities between 9.30am - 4.45pm

Become a part of the sounds of the Discovery Centre with musical instruments from around the globe, create your own arts and crafts to take home and then try your hand at a puzzle or three!

Cost: Free to $2.50
Ages: All ages

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