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PAMA @ Home brings art, culture and historical exploration home with a variety of easy fun filled activities for all ages.

Using simple materials, PAMA is happy to provide easy step-by-step instructions for art activities, games or fun things to do while at home. Our archive holds over 100 fun activities to try. All activities are downloadable in PDF.

September Family Fun Activity

Explore texture and colour in this summer/fall activity!

August Family Fun Activity

Gain inspiration from the bright colours and thoughtful messages from the VASA Arts Festival as you create marbled art in this activity!

July Family Fun Activity

This summer, we welcome the Great Outdoors. Get outside and get messy with spray art inspired by nature. Click here for the step-by-step instructions.

June Family Fun Activity

Be inspired by Botanica Colossi as you create your own nature art. Instead of using a camera at night, you will use the sun during the day to make a sun print. Click here for step-by-step instructions.

Spring Break

Puffy Paint Landscapes: Be inspired by the unique mediums and mountain landscapes of the artist Simon Hughes and make a DIY puffy paint landscape.

Fish Ice Painting: View the transforming landscapes and photographs of the waterfront in the online Morphology exhibition as you create your own under water scene.

Tree Printmaking: Learn about relief printmaking and design a tree print just in time for spring.

Flying STEAM Windsock: Discover how a windsock works and make your own.

Upcycled Tin Can Planters: Find out why Brampton is known as "Flower City" and create an upcycled tin can planter.

March Family Friendly Activities

Zen Patterned Snowshoe - Snowshoes leave unique patterns in the snow. Get inspired by different winter prints and create your own zen snowshoe patterned artwork.

Snowboarder Collage - Create your own art inspired by winter sports and the scenes of a snowy winter.

January and February Family Friendly Activities

Family Quilts - Quilts not only keep you warm but can help with telling a story. Tell the story of your own family with a mixed media quilt collage.

DIY Fascinators - Visit the Our Voices, Our Journeys: Black Communities in Peel online exhibition to discover a rich cultural history. In almost every photo from the North Peel Community Church congregation, you will see women wearing beautiful hats at worship services and formal events. Follow along with the DIY step-by-step instructions to create your own fascinator inspired by the exhibition.

Snowflake STEM: Explore the beauty of snowflakes in a different way as you replicate their unique patterns and shapes using STEM.

Aerial Snow People: Everything looks different from a bird's-eye view. See for yourself as you make a snow person from an aerial perspective.

Home for the Holidays (Winter Break Activities)

Abstract Icebergs - Explore layers of colour and make your own Simon Hughes inspired abstract icebergs.

Crafty Nutcrackers - Create your own crafty nutcrackers from toilet paper tubes.

Mitten Wreath - Use mittens for more than just keeping your fingers warm with a mitten wreath.

Snow Globe Scenes - Design a scenic winter snow globe.

Snow Painting - Bring colours and creativity outdoors with homemade paint to use on snow.

Fall Family Fun

Poppy Pinwheels: Create a poppy pinwheel as a sign of remembrance.

Haunted Paper Lanterns: Get into the Halloween spirit with your own spooky haunted paper lanterns.

Watercolour Webs: Learn amazing watercolour techniques to create art with spooky spiders in a watercolour web.

Coffee Filter Leaves: Explore the colours of the fall season as you use them to decorate your own leaves made from coffee filters.

Paper Pumpkins: Get inspired by the fall and Thanksgiving season as you create a paper pumpkin.

Leaf Creatures: Use your imagination and bring nature to life as you create characters from leaves.

Nature Printmaking: Let's get into the fall spirit by creating art inspired by the new season.

Fall Harvest: Explore fall vegetables as you create your own crops to harvest.

Apple Quilling: Create your own 3D apple with paper quilling techniques.

Chalk It Back To School: Chalk can be used for so much more than just writing on a chalkboard. As you get ready for back to school, have some fun with colours and chalk.

National Pride Week

Sketch it Friday - Finger Print Portraits
Your fingerprint is unique to you, no one has one like it, just like your personality. Express yourself along the trail of a fingerprint and let your own personal story shine through.

Patriotic Agamographs
Explore two different perspectives with one work of art as you create your own flag inspired agamograph.

Family Heritage Mobile
While we are all Canadian, our roots come from all around the world. As we Celebrate Canada, we celebrate who we are as individuals and where we came from.

Canada Day Decor
Celebrate Canada Day as you make your own paper wreath to decorate your door.

Maple Leaf Masterpieces
Get ready for Canada Day as you create your own maple leaf masterpieces to showcase your pride!

Back to Nature

Sketch it Friday - Nature's Favourites
Explore the outdoors and find your favourite elements of nature. Start with basic shapes and progress to sketch the beauty of nature through your own eyes.

Honeycomb Hive

We need bees to pollinate flowers and help nature grow. Explore all that bees do for us as you create your own honeycomb hive.

Bird Seed Ornaments

Give back to nature and add to your garden as you make your own birdseed ornaments.

Seed Bombs
Spread the love and some flowers as you create your own seed bombs to leave wildflowers wherever you go.

Summer Sunflowers
Start the summer season by celebrating all that is bright and beautiful, like your own woven sunflower.

Sun, Moon & Stars

Sketch it - Summer Solstice Suns
It's almost the start of Summer and the sun is out! Transform a simple circle into a variety of summer suns to celebrate the solstice.

The Man in the Moon
For centuries, stories have talked about the relationship between the sun and moon. Use your imagination to draw your own man in the moon inspired by traditional tales.

Phases of the Moon
Look up at the moon and watch as it changes throughout the month. From a small sliver to full and bright, create your own moon journal to track the moon's progression and bring it to life with a phases garland.

Watercolour Constellations
Explore the stars and appreciate how small we all are in the bigger picture.

Solar System
Get out and into the universe as you explore the planets and create your own mini-solar system.

Expressions in Abstraction

Sketch It - Circles Challenge

Draw a series of circles and transform each one into something different. See how many unique things you can create with one simple shape.

Patterns from Home

Combine patterns found around your home for a unique work of art that reminds you of a place you love.

House & Home Collage

Use your imagination to design and create a collage of a house using basic shapes.

Pour Painting

Some abstract artists allow the art to make itself. Today, you will too with a little help from gravity.

Abstract by Chance

Take a chance and let the dice tell you what elements to add as you create your own abstract artwork.

Exploring Simon Hughes

Sketch It - Geometric Objects

Use line and shape to transform sketches of simple things you would find around your house into geometric masterpieces.

Explore Simon Hughes: Works, 2001-2020

Explore PAMA's exhibition of the works of Simon Hughes to see what you can find as you discover the details hidden in his art.

Graphic Gradients

From light to dark and every shade in between, you can further your exploration of line, shape and colour as you create your own graphic gradient masterpiece.

Patterned Landscapes

Use basic shapes and a progression of colours to create your own landscape and bring it to life with different prints and patterns.

Colourful Collages

Explore colour and space as your create your own colourful collage using mixed media techniques inspired by the Simon Hughes.

Hidden Treasures

Sketch Friday - Paper Clip Creatures

May 29 is Paperclip Day! Tape a paperclip into your sketchbook or draw your own and use your imagination to transform it into something more.

Coded Messages

Communicate in secret with your friends using your own matching coders to encode your letters and messages for each other's eyes only.

Neighbourhood Scavenger Hunt

Explore your neighbourhood through a different lens as you go for a walk and try to find everything on the list.

Hidden Treasures Word Search

Seek and find words one letter at a time as you try your hand at our PAMA word search before making your own full of your special treasures.

Explore Morphology

Explore PAMA's digital exhibition, Morphology, to see what you can find and follow the guide to create a photo story of your own local landscape.

Regally Royal

Sketch It - King & Queen for the Day

As we finish a week of feeling regally royal, draw yourself or another character as a king or queen.

Postage Stamp Profiles

Royalty have been the feature of postage stamps for years, today it's your turn to be the postage profile.

Royal Flush

Spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts. Play your hand after you get creative and make your own custom deck of cards.

3-D Crowns

Feel like royalty as you get creative and make your own 3-dimensional paper crown.

Scratch Art Fireworks

Celebrate Victoria Day with your own fireworks showcase in the house as you make your own scratch artwork.

Celebrate Museum Week

Sketch It - Endangered Animals

May 15 is Endangered Species Day. It is a day to learn about endangered animals and how we can protect them.

Captured Moments

Today is all about moments, they can be from your life while staying at home or simply your favourite memories. Use your imagination as you capture moments through your own work of art.

Model Museum

In his works, Simon Hughes creates architectural fantasies using line, shape and form. Explore architecture and your imagination as you design your own model museum.

Limerick Labels

Celebrate Museum Week and National Limerick Day by bringing culture to your quarantine and creating rhyming labels for the artwork in your home.

Time Capsule

In addition to sharing your story with us through the Peel Time Capsule, you can document this time for yourself as you make your own.

Fantastic Florals

Sketch It - Colourful Cacti

Daydreaming of Summer weather? Picture yourself in the desert and sketch a variety of colourful cacti.

It's Raining Petals

Bring May flowers inside one petal at a time as you create your own hanging wisteria garland.

Flower Print Cards

Get creative and print snapdragons to celebrate Mother's Day or hyacinths to thank nurses for all their hard work on Nurses Day or dreamy dandelions just to show someone you're thinking of them.

Fiesta Flowers

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo by creating your own colourful bouquet of fiesta flowers.

Magic Blossoms

Use your magic powers to make flowers that bloom with nothing but the power of the force.

Make Some Music

Sketch It - May Memories

Take part in a series of creative sketchbook challenges every Friday in May. This week, sketch what you love most about the month.

International Jazz Day

Celebrate International Jazz Day and the last day of "April Showers" by designing your art to music.

Sonic Waves Mobile

Get up, dance and explore sound and volume in a single song as you make your own sonic waves mobile.

Rain Sticks

Something simple can make so many unique sounds depending on what you put inside. Get innovative with your own rain stick using old paper towel or toilet paper tubes.

Exquisite Stories

Everyone must use their imaginations to create an exquisite story, one line at a time.

The Ultimate Instrument

Strum, blow and shake this ultimate instrument to make as many different sounds as you can.

Reduce, Reuse & Recycle

Cup Phones

On National Telephone Day, in addition to giving a call to someone special, get creative and make a cup phone to talk to someone while social distancing in the house.

Bottle Cap Castanets

Recycle old pieces of cardboard and bottle caps to make a unique musical instrument.

Cardboard Books

Bring life to scraps of paper and old pieces of cardboard by using them to make your own book in celebration of World Book Day.

Reusable T-Shirt Totes

Celebrate Earth Day by making something old new again! Turn an old t-shirt into a reusable tote bag instead of throwing it away.

Spinning Suns

Bring the sunshine inside with your own spinning sun that isn't just fun to make, but also fun to play with.

Sunglasses Self-Portraits

Look at the world through a different lens with a self-portrait that combines drawing and collage for a mixed media masterpiece.

Words that Pop

Get inspired by comics and graphic novels to make a word pop off the page using colours and patterns.

Express Yourself

Photo Stories

Create snapshots of your favourite memories or make one a day to document how you're social distancing. String them together for a unique photo story of your life.

Write Your Own Haiku

It's National Haiku Day! Express yourself with words and explore the art of haiku poetry.

Op Art Hands

See how your mind can play tricks on you with colours, shapes and patterns as you make an optical illusion that pops off the page.

Homemade Sidewalk Chalk Paint

Celebrate World Art Day by creating your own masterpiece to share with the neighbourhood. If you don't have chalk, you can follow the steps to make your own chalk paint.

Roar Like a Lion

Use basic geometric shapes to create an artwork that leaps off the page with a pop of colour and a roar.

Sundials

Learn how to tell time with nothing but the light of the sun as you create your own colourful sundial and explore different kinds of clocks.

Colourful Cards

Connect with people you can't see in person and send them a colourful spring card to show you care. Use a variety of artistic techniques to make each unique.

Archives Awareness

Illuminated Initials

Font and text can be used to convey more than just the words written. Illuminated letters have been used for centuries to convey the importance of text, now you can make your own.

Comic Creations

Art and stories collide with comic creations. Create your own characters and use them to tell a story scene by scene.

Monster Trading Cards

Since sports aren't happening, use your imagination to create your own cards to trade with family and friends.

Collage Compass Rose

A map is no good without a compass rose to tell you what direction everything is in. Use collage techniques to create your own geometric compass rose inspired by maps from our Archives and the works of Simon Hughes.

Morse Code Messages

Make a special scavenger hunt leaving clues for someone using Morse Code. Come up with your clues then use the Alphabet Reference sheet to encode them for a someone to decipher.

Tartans & Patterns

Explore the patterns and colours of tartans as you celebrate National Tartan Day! Lines, shapes and repetition are only some of the elements you can use to make your own tartan inspired pattern.

Watercolour Geodes

Explore colours found in nature as you design your own geodes and use watercolour techniques to make the colours flow into one another.

Artistic Adventures

Slow Art Day

Take your time and celebrate slow art day by exploring works from PAMA's collection in a new way. Examine each work digitally through our series of questions and create your own work with others one square at a time.

Rainbow Pinwheels

Explore the colours of the rainbow with your own pinwheel and see how basic colours mix to make new ones when it twirls in the wind.

Paint to Music

Art can connect with all your senses in different ways. Pick a unique song and let it guide you in creating art that moves you.

April Showers Mobile

Make your own meteorology mobile to celebrate the start of April and the hope that April showers will bring May flowers soon.

Matching Memory Game

Test your memory and get creative at the same time. Make your own matching memory game and see how fast you can find all the pairs or challenge someone in your family to see who can find the most first.

The Magic of Markers

The best part about washable markers is the magic you can make with them! Use something simple to create a artwork with a watercolour effect and bring it to life in your own unique way.

Recycled Weavings

Reduce, reuse and weave! Find a use for the random scraps of paper or old magazines you have in the house and create a recycled woven artwork.

Creative Creations

My Museum

Use your imagination and design your own museum! From the colour of the walls to what's in the frames and display cases -use your imagination and make your museum your own.

Bubble Painting

Explore art with bubbles and create works of art that pop! Use basic at home materials to create abstract mono-prints and with a little extra, you can transform bubbles into something more.

Abstract Landscapes

Bring a pop of colour to a dreary day and use your imagination to create an abstract landscape using blocks of colour, lines and shapes.

Secret Treasure Maps

Keep your secrets close or your treasures hidden with a secret treasure map. Use invisible ink to write secret clues and make your own map just like pirates used to.

Shadow Puppets

Tell stories in a visual way with shadow puppets. Create a series of characters and even make your own theatre to tell stories using light and shadow.

Constellation Viewer

Find a use for the empty toilet paper rolls you have in your house and make your own way to view the constellations. Pick your favourite and create a constellation viewer to help you find it anywhere you go.

Geometric Abstract Art

Keep it simple by using lines and colours to create your own geometric abstract artwork. Mix colours, think outside the box and get creative!

Mixed-Media Mash-Up

Wiggle Pets

Your furry friends are probably so happy to have your company while you're at home! Create your own wiggle pet inspired by your own or your favourite animal.

Corn Syrup Painting

No paint? No problem! Follow the steps to make your own corn syrup paint and use it to make a masterpiece.

Paper Spring Flowers

Happy Spring! Start the season off by making your own paper spring flowers. Imagine the flowers, butterflies and birds that will be joining us in the coming months and start the season right.

Make Your Own Puzzle

Make your own puzzle from your imagination using traditional thick black lines from comics. Make a few and follow the family challenges for some ways to engage.

Celtic Knot Mobile

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a Celtic Knot Mobile that symbolizes love and eternity, a special mobile with no beginning and no end.

Tissue Paper Landscapes

Empty out the gift wrap drawer and use your torn scraps of tissue paper to make something beautiful! Look out your window and create a landscape inspired by the view outside.

Culture Days Self-Portraits

Our self-portrait series is inspired by Art Voice: Expressions from youth in the GTA, an online exhibition featuring extraordinary works created by youth artists expressing their voices through art.

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Colouring Sheets

Enjoy colouring at home with PAMA colouring sheets.

Coco and Wellington prepare to paint

Learn the folktale of The Serpent in Snell Lake (now known as Heart Lake) and colour along with the story