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Bring art and history exploration home with a variety of easy, fun filled activities for all ages.
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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
Hands-On Education
Use these educational resources to engage in virtual learning by creating your own museum field trip at home. These hands-on education programs inspire continued learning and integrate curriculum throughout.
Take a Tour - Simon Hughes: Move yourself through PAMA's Gallery and the exhibition Simon Hughes: Works, 2001-2020 in a virtual 360 degree experience. Use critical analysis to explore his use of the elements of art, representations of Canada and get inspired for your own creation.
Conservation Exploration: Explore PAMA's online exhibit, Morphology with teaching resources including critical thinking questions and a hands-on/application of knowledge activity.
Nature: Get outside and explore nature with activities including a scavenger hunt and art inspired by the great outdoors.
Artifacts: Exploring artifacts from PAMA's collection and learn more about what artifacts are as you try to identify them and their historic uses.
Indoor Recess: Have fun indoors with an at home scavenger hunt and ideas for a visual book report. Also, curate your own mini museum. We can't wait to see what you come up with!
Mapping: Archives Awareness week is celebrated every year to share the importance of Archival collections. Explore maps from the PAMA Archives collection and create your own.
Letters: Continue the learning during Archives Awareness week by investigating a letter written in 1832. Reflect on the journey described in the letter and create your own.
Family Fun Activities
Using simple materials, PAMA is happy to provide easy step-by-step instructions for art activities, games and fun things to do while at home. Activities will be posted during PAMA's closure so be sure to check back each day for something new to try!
June 8 - Abstract by Chance
Take a chance and let the dice tell you what elements to add as you create your own abstract artwork.
Expressions in Abstraction Week (June 8 - 12): inspired by the new virtual exhibition by students from Mayfield School, Home: Expressions in Abstraction, take a tour now
June 5 - Sketch It Friday - Geometric Objects
Use line and shape to transform sketches of simple things you would find around your house into geometric masterpieces.
June 4 - 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.
June 3 - 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.
June 2 - 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.
June 1 - Colourful Collages
Explore colour and space as your create your own colourful collage using mixed media techniques inspired by the Simon Hughes.
Simon Hughes Week (June 1 - 5): Take a virtual tour and get inspired to create!
May 29 - Sketch it 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.
May 28 - 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.
May 27 - Neighbourhood Scavenger Hunt
Explore your neighbourhood through a different lens as you go for a walk and try to find everything on the list.
May 26 - 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.
May 25 - 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.
Hidden Treasures Week (May 25 - 29)
May 22 - Sketch It Friday - King & Queen for the Day
As we finish a week of feeling regally royal, draw yourself or another character as a king or queen.
May 21 - Postage Stamp Profiles
Royalty have been the feature of postage stamps for years, today it's your turn to be the postage profile.
May 20 - Royal Flush
Spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts. Play your hand after you get creative and make your own custom deck of cards.
May 19- 3-D Crowns
Feel like royalty as you get creative and make your own 3-dimensional paper crown.
May 18- Scratch Art Fireworks
Celebrate Victoria Day with your own fireworks showcase in the house as you make your own scratch artwork.
Regally Royal Week (May 18 - 22)
May 15 - Sketch It Friday - Endangered Animals
May 15 is Endangered Species Day. It is a day to learn about endangered animals and how we can protect them.
May 14 - Museum Week - 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.
May 13 - Museum Week - 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.
May 12 - Museum Week - 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.
May 11 - Museum Week - 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.
Museum Week (May 11 - 15): May is Museum Month
May 8 - Sketch It Friday - Colourful Cacti
Daydreaming of Summer weather? Picture yourself in the desert and sketch a variety of colourful cacti.
May 7 - It's Raining Petals
Bring May flowers inside one petal at a time as you create your own hanging wisteria garland.
May 6 - 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.
May 5 - Fiesta Flowers
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo by creating your own colourful bouquet of fiesta flowers.
May 4 - Magic Blossoms
Use your magic powers to make flowers that bloom with nothing but the power of the force.
Flowers for Mom Week (May 4 - 8)
May 1 - Sketch It Friday - 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.
April 30 - International Jazz Day
Celebrate International Jazz Day and the last day of "April Showers" by designing your art to music.
Everyone must use their imaginations to create an exquisite story, one line at a time.
April 26 - The Ultimate Instrument
Strum, blow and shake this ultimate instrument to make as many different sounds as you can.
Make Music Week (April 26 - May 1)
April 25 - 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.
April 24 - Bottle Cap Castanets
Recycle old pieces of cardboard and bottle caps to make a unique musical instrument.
April 23 - 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.
April 22 - 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.
April 21 - Spinning Suns
Bring the sunshine inside with your own spinning sun that isn't just fun to make, but also fun to play with.
April 20 - 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.
April 19 - Words that Pop
Get inspired by comics and graphic novels to make a word pop off the page using colours and patterns.
Reduce, Reuse & Recycle Week (April 19 - 25)
April 18 - 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.
April 17 - Write Your Own Haiku
It's National Haiku Day! Express yourself with words and explore the art of haiku poetry.
April 16 - 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.
April 15 - 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.
April 14 - 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.
April 13 - 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.
April 12 - 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.
Express Yourself Week (April 12- 18)
April 11 - Archives
Awareness Week - 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.
April 10 - Archives
Awareness Week - Comic Creations
Art and stories collide with comic creations. Create your
own characters and use them to tell a story scene by scene.
April 9 - Archives
Awareness Week - Monster Trading Cards
Since sports aren't happening, use your imagination to
create your own cards to trade with family and friends.
April 8 - Archives
Awareness Week - 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.
April 7 - Archives
Awareness Week - 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.
April 6 - 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.
April 5 - 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.
Archives Awareness Week (April 5- 11)
April 4 - 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.
April 3 - 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.
April 2 - 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 1 - 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.
March 31 - 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.
March 30 - 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.
March 29 - 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.
March 28 - 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.
March 27 - 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.
March 26 - 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.
March 25 - 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.
March 24 - 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.
March 23 - 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.
March 22 - 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!
March 21 - 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.
March 20 - Corn Syrup Painting
No paint? No problem! Follow the steps to make your own corn syrup paint and use it to make a masterpiece.
March 19 - 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.
March 18 - 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.
March 17 - 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.
March 16 - 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.
