How to make Indigenous Australian Paint

Hunt around in your backyard for coloured rocks, not the type you buy from a garden centre these ones need to be naturally occurring Australian rocks. If your garden is a formal manicured one you may need to go rock hunting in your local park. Put a couple of similar coloured rocks into a mortar [...]


Yawk Yawks and Potkooroks

When we went to see the terrifying sea monster and all his friends we also watched a  really cool performance by a company called Erth. The play was live performance puppetry showcasing characters from an Australian production called Nargun and the stars. What we saw was called I, Bunyip and was more like watching a [...]


My Place & Yours-What’s on your key ring?

I just realized something, I don’t think I ever throw keys out.   This cup is a sort of key ring for all the loose keys I have, non of them open anything anymore. Items of note, the coloured keys were a present for Glenn before we were married they opened my parents house before [...]


How to induce nightmares

We took the kids to see the Mythic Creatures exhibit at the National Maritime Museum, and scared the living daylights out of them. It was advertised as having Dragons, mermaids unicorns and fairies so I thought, cool we have some fans of those in this house and it might inspire this term’s visual arts unit. [...]


My place and Yours-Where do you blog?

Here is where I blog and a dogs bottom. Here is where I blog and an interrupting child and a dogs bottom. OK last chance before I give up because I’m so horrifically late this week that if anyone does bother to come here and take a peek they’ll be all, whoa, really, was that [...]