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Bring art and history exploration home with a variety of easy, fun filled activities for all ages.
Summer Staycations
Celebrate summer while staying at home and get creative with PAMA and a variety of fun-filled activities. Engage with arts, culture and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) as you follow-along with a weekly video and step-by-step instructions to create your own unique masterpieces with different themes each week in July and August.
Week 5: Toys & Games
- Slime Monsters: Get messy and mix your own glitter slime then transform it into a monster creation.
- Spinning Tops: Spin and play with colours as you create your own spinning top using the colours of the rainbow. If you look hard enough, you can find fun and games everywhere.
- Marionettes: Bring your love of toys and games to life as you use your imagination to create your own marionettes.
Week 4: Archival Investigations
- Building Bridges: Bridges allow us to move from one side to another and come in all shapes and sizes, get creative as you experiment and make your own unique bridge.
- Aerial Art: The world looks very different from the sky. Explore your neighbourhood through a new perspective and create an aerial inspired artwork.
- Big Book Bookmarks:Big books can make it hard to find the right page, make your own bookmark to pick-up where you left off.
- Pendulum Painting: Abstract art is as much about the process as it is the final product. Explore gravity and viscosity as you make your own pendulum paintings.
- Symmetrical Creatures: Explore the art of symmetry as you use line and colour to create your own crazy creatures.
- Sunscreen Painting: We all know how important sunscreen is to keep us safe from the sun, but it's hard to understand without seeing for ourselves. Create your own sunscreen painting and watch what sunscreen does to protect us over time.
Week 2: Act It Out
- Mystic Masks: Act it out this week and find a story to bring to life with your own characters made from mystic masks.
- Finger Puppets: Use basic shapes to create your own animal finger puppets to share your favourite stories with.
- 3-Dimensional Theatre: Get creative and imagine your own mini-theatre where you would put on plays, concerts, musicals and more.
- Geometric Windsocks: Printmaking, patterns and wind combine as you create your own geometric windsocks using STEAM.
- Pop-Up Paper Sculptures: Pop colours and shapes off the page and create a 3-dimensional paper sculpture.
- Layers of Colour: Create a unique landscape using only paper by stacking one colour on top of another.
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.
Colouring Sheets
Enjoy colouring at home with PAMA colouring sheets.
