It’s school holiday time and time for the kids to go out and have a bit a fun around the district and beyond.
- FRIDAY night at 5.44pm will see the opening of the new exhibition at the Artist’s Collective Studio, 199 Rouse Street, Tenterfield. Featured artists include Bill Odd, a multiple award winning oil painter who has recently moved to Tenterfield, and Maggie Brockie, a talented and imaginative wildlife artist who uses clay sculpts and found wood.
- HEAD to Woodenbong on Saturday on Saturday for the Yowie Country Market and Music Day. The event will be held from 8am-3pm at the Woodenbong Public Hall. There will be free live music, hot food, espresso coffee and refreshments as well as a children’s playground, WAG arts kids’ painting and indoor and outside stalls.
- THE Eudaimonia Children’s Theatre Workshops are on this Saturday and Sunday, 9am to 4.30pm both days at the School of Arts, Tenterfield. It is $10 for two days of training. Young people between the ages of seven and 12 will learn, play and tell stories using specially designed masks. Participants will perform on stage. Contact Nicci Parry-Jones by email on office@artsnw.com.au or phone 0267 324 988 for further details.
- Creative teens will love Toowoomba’s Cobb Co Museum hands-on workshops in crafting resin jewellery and musical instrument making. Younger kids (three-12 years) can join Under Construction to make their own creations using LEGO and DUPLO bricks and other construction materials.
- Jondaryan Woolshed offers the perfect mix of entertainment and the opportunity to appreciate country life both past and present. Sheep shearing, interactive displays and a visit to the animal nursery to meet the resident goslings, ducklings, chicks, calves, piglets and joeys will keep kids amused.
- Bestbrook Mountain Resort’s five-day school holiday kids’ camp is for kids who want to learn how to look after and ride a horse. They’ll also milk cows, learn to make damper, feed farm animals, go yabby fishing and learn how to crack a whip and throw a boomerang. Numbers are limited to 20 kids per camp.
