Monday 20 January 2020 – 10:00am-2:00pm
Wednesday 22 January 2020 – 10:00am-2:00pm
Friday 24 January 2020 – 10:00am-2:00pm
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These fully supervised activities are a celebration of all things Antarctic and cold.
The day starts with an experiment in making ‘snow’ from simple home ingredients to get into the polar mood, no snow fights please! The next craft station offers a choice of creative activities, or children can do all three. We show how to create an origami sculpture of arctic animals, like whales, penguins or seals. Then make them into a spinning mobile. Dress explorer paper dolls in his or her layers of polar clothes and decorate them with colourful fabric or textas. Next – everyone’s favourite – cupcake decorating into snowmen or penguins, to enjoy for afternoon tea or to take home. Children will also have a chance to draw real Emperor Penguins and a Husky with the help of professional animal artist Kathryn McGovern.
The Queensland Museum has provided two ‘touch trollies’ of genuine polar artefacts from Australia’s Antarctic bases. One shows balaclavas, gloves, food tins and shows how the explorers lived in the freezing cold. The other has rocks from under the ice, whale vertebrae, seal skulls, fur from penguins and seals and other examples from nature.
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