School Holiday Program Spring 2024
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<strong>School</strong><br />
<strong>Holiday</strong><br />
<strong>Program</strong><br />
Bookings open Monday 16 September<br />
• Book online at www.wml.vic.gov.au (see Events tab)<br />
or by calling any Whitehorse Manningham branch<br />
between 10 am and 5 pm<br />
• Non refundable booking fees: Craft activities - $2,<br />
External Performers - $5, Storytimes - free<br />
• Payment needs to be made within 48 hours of<br />
booking otherwise booking will be cancelled<br />
• Please cancel your booking if your child can no<br />
longer attend.<br />
• If your chosen event is booked out, it is worth<br />
joining the waiting list.<br />
Register for events online at www.wml.vic.gov.au
Monday 23 September<br />
Doodle Bugs (6+)<br />
Craft<br />
Transform your drawing doodles into a<br />
creepy crawly 3D paper doodlebug.<br />
Bulleen 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Cost: $2<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Animal Collage (6+)<br />
Craft<br />
Use a variety of materials to piece together<br />
vibrant animal collages, exploring textures,<br />
colors, and shapes along the way.<br />
Nunawading 2.30 pm - 3.15pm Cost: $2<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Marine Education (4+)<br />
With Seaweed Sally<br />
Explore the depths of the Southern Ocean<br />
and see shark jaws, whales bones, sea<br />
horses and turtles. After the presentation,<br />
get your hands wet in the live animal<br />
touch-tank and handle sea stars, crabs,<br />
sea sponges and more!<br />
Doncaster 2.00 pm - 3.30pm Cost: $5<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Movers and Shakers (0-3 years)<br />
Discover the joy of sharing songs and<br />
rhymes with your little ones!<br />
Box Hill 10.30 - 11:00am Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
Tuesday 24 September<br />
Butterflies (8+)<br />
Craft<br />
What beautiful creations can you make<br />
today? Using a range of different materials<br />
make some butterflies to take home.<br />
Blackburn 2.30 pm - 3.30 pm Cost: $2<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Real Aussie Animals (6+)<br />
Presented by Aussie Wildlife Displays<br />
Get up close and personal with some<br />
of Australia’s fluffy, feathery and scaly<br />
animals!<br />
The Pines 10.30 am - 11.30 am Cost: $5<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Kids Movie Night (5+)<br />
Sing<br />
Buster Moon is a theatre-loving koala who<br />
stages a grand singing competition for the<br />
world’s animals in order to save his elegant<br />
theatre and bring it back to its former<br />
glory. Popcorn provided. BYO something<br />
comfy to sit on.<br />
Movie is rated G.<br />
Vermont Sth 6.00 pm - 7.45 pm Cost: Free<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Movers and Shakers (0-3 years)<br />
Explore the joy of songs, rhythm and<br />
movement with your little ones in a fun<br />
and interactive setting!<br />
Nunawading 2.30 pm - 3.00 pm Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
Tuesday 24 September (cont)<br />
<strong>Holiday</strong> Storytime (5+)<br />
In the Jungle<br />
Join us for some wild jungle stories, lively<br />
jungle songs and fun jungle themed craft<br />
activity.<br />
Doncaster 2.30 pm - 3.15 pm Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
Wednesday 25 September<br />
Adam Wallace (7+)<br />
Author and cartoonist<br />
Here’s your chance to meet authors<br />
Adam Wallace and Lisa Foley with their<br />
new book 18,000 Holes in the Universe,<br />
written right here in Warrandyte. Join us<br />
for some fun activities and games<br />
Warrandyte 2.00 - 3.00 pm Cost: Free<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Animal Bookmarks (7+)<br />
Craft<br />
Create your own totally roar-some animal<br />
bookmarks!<br />
Blackburn 2.30 pm - 3.30 pm Cost: $2<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Movers and Shakers (0-3 years)<br />
Explore the joy of songs, rhythm and<br />
movement with your little ones in a fun<br />
and interactive setting!<br />
Warrandyte 11.00 am - 11.30 am Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
Wednesday 25 September<br />
(cont)<br />
Real Aussie Animals (6+)<br />
Presented by Aussie Wildlife Displays<br />
Get up close and personal with some<br />
of Australia’s fluffy, feathery and scaly<br />
animals!<br />
Box Hill 2.30 pm - 3.30 pm Cost: $5<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Makerspace: Sphero Coding<br />
Challenge (8+)<br />
Spheros are the ultimate rolling robots,<br />
wrapped in a robust shell, and loaded<br />
with programming superpowers. In this<br />
workshop, we’ll dive into the world of<br />
coding using a playful visual language,<br />
and use these brainy orbs to play games<br />
and complete challenges.<br />
Nunawading 10.30 am - 12.00 pm Cost: $2<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
<strong>Spring</strong> Paint & Plant (6+)<br />
With Bunnings Doncaster<br />
Get ready for a springtime splash of<br />
creativity and paint your own pot to<br />
take home, complete with a lovely plant.<br />
Remember to dress for a fun, messy<br />
adventure!<br />
Bulleen 10.30 am - 11.30 am Cost: $2<br />
(Booking required - register online)
Wednesday 25 September<br />
(cont)<br />
Makerspace: Optical Illusions (6+)<br />
Discover the magical illusion techniques<br />
that lead to the invention of movies with<br />
early animation devices like the Zoetropes<br />
and Thaumatropes. Dive into their<br />
fascinating origins and learn how to create<br />
your own physical animated sequences!<br />
Doncaster 2.30 pm - 4.00 pm Cost: $2<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Thursday 26 September<br />
Dinosaur Discovery <strong>Program</strong> (4+)<br />
Museums Victoria<br />
Learn how palaeontologists have come<br />
to understand dinosaurs in this handson<br />
interactive presentation. Experience<br />
casts of Triceratops fossils, a life-sized<br />
Muttaburrasaurus skull, and the ancient<br />
Koolasuchus cleelandi!<br />
Nunawading 2.30 pm - 3.30 pm Cost: $5<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
<strong>Holiday</strong> Storytime (All ages)<br />
Old MacDonald had a Farm<br />
Enjoy the fun of farm animals through stories,<br />
songs and a craft activity.<br />
Vermont Sth 11.00 am - 11.45 am Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
Origami Bookmarks (6+)<br />
Craft<br />
Monday 30 September<br />
Creepy Crawly Garden<br />
Community Display<br />
Bugs and beetles in my garden! Head to<br />
Bulleen Library these school holidays to add<br />
your own creepy crawly to the community<br />
display.<br />
Bulleen Opening Hours Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
Tuesday 1 October<br />
Printmaking (9+)<br />
Craft<br />
Calling all artists and sculptors! Use your<br />
carving skills to create a beautiful picture.<br />
Box Hill 2.30 pm - 3.30 pm Cost: $2<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Movers and Shakers (0-3 years)<br />
Explore the joy of songs, rhythm and<br />
movement with your little ones in a fun and<br />
interactive setting!<br />
The Pines 10.30 am - 11.00 am Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
Bedtime Storytime<br />
Furry Friends<br />
Wear your pyjamas, bring your favourite<br />
TOY pet and enjoy some fun and magical<br />
bedtimes stories about pets.<br />
Vermont Sth 7.00 pm - 7.45 pm Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
Tuesday 1 October (Cont)<br />
Movers and Shakers (0-3 years)<br />
Explore the joy of songs, rhythm and<br />
movement with your little ones in a fun<br />
and interactive setting!<br />
Doncaster 2.30 pm - 3.00 pm Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
<strong>Holiday</strong> Storytime (All ages)<br />
The Panda Problem<br />
It may sound serious, but this story will<br />
have you giggling as you meet a very<br />
opinionated panda. This session includes<br />
puppets, more panda tales, and a panda<br />
craft to complete the fun!<br />
Nunawading 11.00 am - 11.45 am Cost:<br />
Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
Wednesday 2 October<br />
Stop Motion Safari (7+)<br />
Create a stop motion video with a wild<br />
theme! Use toys and crafts to create your<br />
scene, then make them move in the free<br />
Stop Motion app.<br />
The Pines 2.30 pm - 4.00 pm Cost: $2<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Wednesday 2 October (Cont)<br />
Makerspace: Secret Code<br />
Bracelets (6+)<br />
Join us for a simple craft activity to<br />
explore binary and morse code systems<br />
and create beaded bracelets that contain<br />
secret messages. We’ll use this example<br />
to understand how this core concept of<br />
computational thinking and coding turns<br />
1s and 0s into complex sequences of<br />
code and have fun cracking each other’s<br />
codes.<br />
Blackburn 10.30 am - 11.30 am Cost: $2<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Animal Sock Puppets (6+)<br />
Craft<br />
Create your own animal sock puppet<br />
using colourful materials and plenty of<br />
imagination. Will it be a cheeky monkey<br />
or a brave lion? After crafting, you can<br />
bring your puppet to life in our little<br />
Library Theatre. All materials provided,<br />
but you’re welcome to bring your own<br />
sock!<br />
Doncaster 11.00 am - 12.00 pm Cost: $2<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
<strong>Holiday</strong> Storytime (All ages)<br />
Guess Who?<br />
Can you tell what animals are hiding in<br />
the stories? Shhh, listen, their sounds<br />
might give you a clue. Join us for some<br />
animal stories, songs and a fun animal<br />
craft.<br />
Warrandyte 11.00 am - 11.45 am Cost: Free<br />
Experiment with origami to create your own,<br />
unique bookmark.<br />
Box Hill 2.30 pm - 3.30 pm Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
(No Booking required)
Thursday 3 October<br />
Preschool Play (3 - 4 years)<br />
With Nunawading Toy Library<br />
Come drop in to the Nunawading Toy<br />
Library popup session, learn about<br />
membership benefits and a chance for<br />
children to play.<br />
Nunawading 10.30 am - 11.15 am Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
<strong>Holiday</strong> Storytime (All ages)<br />
Farmyard fun!<br />
An oink, a moo, a cock-a-doodle do, who’s<br />
in the barnyard playing peekaboo? Come<br />
along and join in with some farmyard tales<br />
and sing alongs.<br />
Blackburn 11.00 am - 11.45 am Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
<strong>Holiday</strong> Storytime (3-8 years)<br />
Roald Dahl<br />
Enjoy tales of the Enormous Crocodile<br />
and other Dirty Beasts in this storytime<br />
for bigger kids. There’s funny songs with<br />
actions, and a cool craft to follow the<br />
stories.<br />
The Pines 11.00 am - 11.45 am Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
Movers and Shakers (0-3 years)<br />
Explore the joy of songs, rhythm and<br />
movement with your little ones in a fun and<br />
interactive setting!<br />
Bulleen 2.30 pm - 3.00 pm Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
Thursday 3 October (cont)<br />
Wellbeing dogs at work (5+)<br />
With Unconditional Love Foundation<br />
Come and meet these special dogs and<br />
learn about their stories, have a pat and<br />
chat session while giving them a brush,<br />
see their fantastic tricks and finish with a<br />
special woofy craft. These doggy visitors<br />
have been chosen especially for their<br />
temperament and to create connection and<br />
smiles with our families.<br />
Vermont Sth 11.00 am - 12.00 pm Cost: $5<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Friday 4 October<br />
Watch out for the Pigeon! (5+)<br />
Mo Willems’ book character, the Pigeon, is<br />
always up to something! Create your own<br />
Pigeon, write a story about your Pigeon and<br />
enjoy lots of Pigeon fun!<br />
Vermont Sth 11.00 am - 12.00 pm Cost:$2<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Movers and Shakers (0-3 years)<br />
Explore the joy of songs, rhythm and<br />
movement with your little ones in a fun and<br />
interactive setting!<br />
Nunawading 10.30 am - 11.00 am Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
<strong>Holiday</strong> Storytime (All ages)<br />
I need a hug!<br />
Sometimes, we all need a cuddle...<br />
Box Hill 11.00 am - 11.45 am Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)<br />
Friday 4 October (Cont)<br />
Kids Movie Night (5+)<br />
The Bad Guys (2022)<br />
After a heist gone wrong, a wily wolf and<br />
his infamous crew of animal accomplices<br />
agree to become model citizens — or<br />
at least try to. Based on the best-selling<br />
books by Aaron Blabey. Popcorn provided.<br />
BYO something to sit on and snacks.<br />
Movie is rated PG.<br />
Doncaster 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm Cost: Free<br />
(Booking required - register online)<br />
Monday 23 September -<br />
Friday 4 October (continuous)<br />
Our Zoo<br />
Community Display<br />
Draw an animal to live in our zoo. Hand<br />
in your drawing any time during the<br />
<strong>School</strong> <strong>Holiday</strong>s, and our friendly staff<br />
will add your animal to our Zoo display!<br />
Paper, crayons, pencils and markers are<br />
available to use in the library, as well as<br />
easy animal colouring in pages.<br />
The Pines Opening Hours Cost: Free<br />
(No Booking required)
CONTACT US<br />
Blackburn 9896 8400<br />
Box Hill 9896 4300<br />
Bulleen 9896 8450<br />
Doncaster 9877 8500<br />
Nunawading 9872 8600<br />
The Pines 9877 8550<br />
Vermont Sth 9872 8650<br />
Warrandyte 9895 4250<br />
E. info@wml.vic.gov.au<br />
www.wml.vic.gov.au
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