SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOP

Join artist and educator Anne Farrell from The Pencil Case Art Studio for an engaging creative workshop. In this 3-hour session, young artists will use weaving techniques to create their own hanging jellyfish sculpture.

Students will be guided to explore different textiles and learn basic weaving techniques in a fun, small group environment with a qualified and experienced arts teacher.

Weaving is a rhythmic, meditative process that helps children focus, reduce anxiety, and build fine motor skills – making this workshop not only fun, but also a mindful and enriching experience.

All materials provided.

Thu 16 Jul 2026 | 10am – 1pm | Suitable for 8 – 16 yrs

$45 | $40.50 Members | Booking Essential | Mundaring Arts Centre

Mundaring Arts Centre (MAC) returns to the Shire of Mundaring Connecting Community, Stronger Together Expo for another year. This free, family-friendly event offers activities for all ages and the chance to connect with local community services.

Join experienced arts educator Kaitlyn Elsegood for a drop-in workshop exploring this year’s Environmental Art Project theme, Forest Forage. For this hands-on workshop, participants will learn what our unique Western Australian birds consume from nature whilst creating their own unique sculpture out of foraged materials.

Tue 14 Jul 2026 | 9.30 am – 12 pm | Suitable for all ages

Free | Mundaring Arena, 50 Mundaring Weir Road, Mundaring 6073

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL ART PROJECT 2026 >

ARTIST BIO

Kaitlyn Elsegood is an independent artist and educator. Growing up in the Perth Hills informs her deep fascination and rapture with Western Australia's endemic flora that currently inspires her practice.  

Kaitlyn will be joined by Mundaring Arts Centre Inc. Project Officer, Renee Parnell. Renee is a regular workshop facilitator and practicing artist know as (W)renscape.

SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOP

Join artist and educator Anne Farrell from The Pencil Case Art Studio for a hands-on creative workshop. In this 3-hour session, young artists will design and construct a personalised hanging mobile using an exciting mix of materials — including natural objects, beads, yarn, and clay.

Perfect for kids who love to experiment with textures and colour, this workshop encourages self-expression, storytelling through objects, and an appreciation for the beauty found in everyday materials.

All materials provided.

Thu 9 Jul 2026 | 10am – 1pm | Suitable for 5 – 14 yrs | Children under the age of 7 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian

$45 | $40.50 Members | Booking Essential | Mundaring Arts Centre

SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOP

In this 3-hour workshop, young makers will design and build their own moving marionette puppet based on an animal or figure.  

Guided by experienced artist and teacher, Anne Farrell, students will design and build their own moving masterpiece using a variety of arts materials. Bringing them to life through strings and wires, students will learn to move and control their character in a fun, small group environment.

An introduction to the timeless art of puppetry, this workshop offers a hands on lesson for young thespians and artists alike.

Fri 17 Apr 2026 | 10am – 1pm | Suitable for 7 – 14 yrs

$45 | $40.50 MAC Inc. Members | Booking Essential | Mundaring Lesser Hall, 3025 Jacoby St, Mundaring WA 6073

SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOP

Join artist and educator Anne Farrell from The Pencil Case Art Studio for a hands-on creative workshop. In this 3-hour session, young artists will design and construct a personalised hanging mobile using an exciting mix of materials — including natural objects, beads, yarn, and clay. 

Perfect for kids who love to experiment with textures and colour, this workshop encourages self-expression, storytelling through objects, and an appreciation for the beauty found in everyday materials. 

All materials provided. 

Sat 20 Dec 2025 | 10am – 1pm | Suitable for 5 – 14 yrs | Children under the age of 7 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian 

$35 | $31.5 Members | Booking Essential | Mundaring Arts Centre 

*Please note, this workshop has been rescheduled for the December School Holidays. 

SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOP

Join artist and educator Anne Farrell from The Pencil Case Art Studio for an engaging creative workshop. In this 3-hour session, young artists will discover the beautiful Japanese art of Kumihimo braiding – a traditional technique used to embellish kimonos and ceremonial costumes. 

Participants will learn how to weave their own colourful braids, transforming them into friendship bracelets, keychains, or decorative bag charms to take home and treasure. 

Weaving is a rhythmic, meditative process that helps children focus, reduce anxiety, and build fine motor skills – making this workshop not only fun, but also a mindful and enriching experience. 

All materials provided. 

Thu 9 Oct 2025 | 10am – 1pm | Suitable for 8 – 16 yrs | Children under the age of 7 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian 

$35 | $31.5 Members | Booking Essential | Mundaring Arts Centre 

SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOP

Get ready for a hands-on adventure in crafting with this introductory felting workshop. Kids will discover the magic of felting as they create a colourful felted bird from wool. With guidance from artist, Mary Ann Dawson, participants will craft their very own feathered friend, each as unique and imaginative as its maker.  

This workshop is perfect for building focus, patience, and artistic skills in a fun and safe environment.

All materials provided.

Wed 16 Jul 2025 | 1 – 3 pm | Suitable for 5 – 12 yrs | Children under the age of 7 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian

$25 | $22.5 Members | Booking Essential | Mundaring Arts Centre

Join exhibiting artist, Pam Gray at her home studio for this three-week workshop and find the connection between nature and ceramics.

Over the three weeks forage wild clay, journal and design amongst nature, hand build and fire a unique collection of ceramic works as you experiment, learn and connect.

For more information and to book, please visit the artist’s website below.

Sat 14, 21 and 28 Jun 2025

$290 | Studio 108, Roleystone

SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOP

Have you played disc golf? Or wanted to give it try? How about stepping onto the field with your very own personalised disc?

Join golf disc artist, Jason McCormick in this hands-on, colourful disc dyeing workshop. Get an introduction into applications of dye on plastic and take home your very own piece of dynamic art, suitable for display on and off the field.

This workshop is presented in partnership with the Mundaring Sporting Club, in celebration of the upcoming World Team Disc Golf Championships, this November.

Supported by the Shire of Mundaring.

$25 | $22.50 MAC Inc. Members

Wed 25 Sept | 10am – 12pm | Suitable for 8 – 12 yrs | All materials and disc provided | Recommended to wear comfortable clothing you don't mind getting dirty.

Anyone can learn to make felt from wool fibres. In this parent and child school holiday workshop, textile artist Helen O’Hara will teach you the art of wet felting. You’ll learn the basic techniques, make a decorated fun, felt mug-rug and then use a resist to create your very own small, felted vessel to take home.

Wed 5 Oct | 12.30pm - 2.30pm | Suitable for 5 - 10 years
$45 I $40.50 members (Child aged 8 - 10 yrs on their own)
or $60 I $54 members (Child aged 5 - 10 yrs and a parent/guardian)
Materials included - Please bring along an old towel

Drawing inspiration from our very own backyards, Gabby Loo will show you how to use recycled materials to design and print an etching that celebrates biodiversity. Participants will learn DIY printmaking techniques that can be replicated at home to print their design onto recycled card and fabric. 

Tue 4 Oct | 10am - 12pm | Suitable for 6 - 12 yrs
$45 I $40.50 members | Materials included 

This workshop is part of the Environmental Art Project and supported by Shire of Mundaring and Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries

Learn the art of wood block carving and printing with Extricate artist Kristy Scaddan. Carve your own printing plate and create an imaginative series of prints using multiple layers, stencils and repeat patterns. 

Thu 14 Jul 2022 | 12.30pm - 3pm | Suitable for 8 - 16 yrs
$60 | $54 members | Materials included
Mundaring Arts Centre, 7190 Great Eastern Hwy (Corner Nichol St) Mundaring WA

Image: Courtesy of Kristy Scaddan

Learn the art of lino printing with Extricate artist Kristy Scaddan. Carve your own 10 x 10 cm printing plate and create an imaginative series of limited edition prints to take home. 

Tue 5 Jul 2022 | 10.30am - 12.30pm | Suitable for 7 - 12 yrs
$60 | $54 members | Materials included
Mundaring Arts Centre, 7190 Great Eastern Hwy (Corner Nichol St) Mundaring WA

Image: Courtesy of Kristy Scaddan

Craft a bird bath from clay with Kaitlyn Elsegood in this school holiday workshop inspired by the 2022 Environmental Art Project: Backyard Biodiversity. Experimenting with a range of hand building and decorating techniques, the bird baths created will be perfect to hang in a tree and provide water to our feathered friends.

Thu 21 Apr 2022 | 10am - 12pm | Suitable for 5-12yrs
$45 | $40.50 members | Materials supplied

Image: Photograph by Rae Fallon

Learn how to make a coiled vessel with Aboriginal weaver and jewellery maker Emma-Jane Hunt. Using wool and raffia you’ll learn this traditional basket weaving technique with a contemporary twist. Suitable for women and girls ages 10+ this is a fantastic workshop to share with family.

Emma-Jane Hunt is a Yindjibarndi and Djaru woman with both traditional and ancestral links to both the Pilbara and Kimberly regions of Western Australia. Taught to weave when living in the East Pilbara by Martu Weavers from the Western Desert 10 years ago, Emma-Jane is passionate about keeping weaving as a cultural practice alive. She also creates handcrafted jewellery using Quondong seeds.

Sun 17 Oct | 11am -2pm | Suitable for 10+ years
$80 | $72 members | Materials and light refreshments supplied
Mundaring Adult Creative & Learning Centre 3 Craigie Place Mundaring WA
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Image: courtesy the artist

Learn about textile dyeing using food and other natural materials with Deb Wilkes in the school holidays. Kids will experiment with a feast of food and fabrics to make different colours as part of the Food for Thought  project. BYO a preloved, light coloured cotton T-shirt to transform into a new colour.

No nuts will be used but as we will be using food please let us know in the access requirements if there are any allergies so we can avoid problem foods.
If bringing a new shirt please make sure it is washed before hand.

Thu 7 Oct | 1pm – 3:30pm | Suitable for 7-12yrs
$5 | $4.50 members | Materials supplied but you may BYO T-shirt
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Swan View Youth Centre, Salisbury Road, Swan View WA

Image: Photograph by Monica Dahiya

Create your own still life painting of delicious local fruit and other produce as part of the Food for Thought project. Learn about composition and how to mix colors and paint light and shade.  Local artist Bernard Kerr will show you how to use acrylic paint to create an artwork that looks good enough to eat!

Tue 5 Oct | 1pm - 4pm
$5 | $4.50 members | Suitable for 10 - 16yrs | Materials supplied
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Swan View Youth Centre, Salisbury Road, Swan View WA

Image: courtesy the artist.

Join Whadjuk artist Julianne Wade in the school holidays to learn about local bush foods and native plants. Kids will create a delicious drawing with coloured pencils which can be entered in the Act Belong Commit Caring for Country Project.

This workshop is part of Food for Thought. 

Mon 4 Oct | 1pm – 3pm | Suitable for 6 - 12 yrs
$5 | $4.50 members | Materials supplied
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Swan View Youth Centre, Salisbury Road, Swan View WA

Image: Photographs by Alexander Dummer and Rebecca Mansell.

Join Noongar artist and Language specialist Carol Foley in the school holidays to learn about technology and construction techniques traditionally used by our local First Nations peoples to carry food and other objects. Kids will craft an object out of natural materials and then put their construction skills to the test with an egg and spoon type race at the end.  

This workshop is part of Food for Thought and the Act Belong Commit Caring for Country Project.

Tue 28 Sep | 10am – 12pm at Midland Junction Arts Centre
OR 2pm - 4pm at Swan View Youth Centre
$5 | $4.50 members | Suitable for 6 - 12 yrs | Materials supplied
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Midland Junction Arts Centre 276 Great Eastern Hwy Corner of Cale St Midland WA
Swan View Youth Centre, Salisbury Road, Swan View WA

Image: Photo by Susie Blatchford.

Join Sharyn Egan to create your own fantastic creature using natural fibres and wool. You’ll learn binding and wrapping techniques and discover how Sharyn uses contemporary materials to tell traditional stories whilst you sculpt a local animal significant to Nyoongar people. Suitable for both adults and kids ages 8+ this is a fantastic workshop to share with family.

Sharyn Egan’s arts practice is informed by the experiences of her life as a Nyoongar woman growing up in New Norcia and comments upon the associated trauma, emotions and a deep sense of loss and displacement experienced by Aboriginal people. Sharyn works in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture and woven forms using both contemporary and traditional natural materials.

Sun 19 Sep | 10am – 12pm OR 1pm – 3pm | Suitable for 8+ years
$50 | $45 members | Materials and light refreshments supplied
Mundaring Adult Creative & Learning Centre 3 Craigie Place Mundaring WA
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Image: courtesy the artist

Build a house out of clay inspired by Michelle Campbell's exhibition Urban with Kaitlyn Elsegood in the July school holidays. Drawing from the houses in Michelle's paintings, their own home, or their imagination, kids will learn ceramic hand building techniques to make a small house in this fun, hands on workshop. 

Works will be decorated with coloured slips, fired and ready to pick up 4 weeks after class. Please wear closed in shoes and clothes you don’t mind getting clay on. Spots are limited!

Wed 14 Jul | 2pm - 4pm | Suitable for 7-11 yrs
$35 | $31.50 Members | All materials supplied
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Join Noongar artist and Language specialist Carol Foley in the July school holidays to learn stories about the Waargyl, the creator of freshwater sources and create a collaborative canvas using natural materials and paint. This workshop is part of the Act Belong Commit Caring for Country Project.

Thu 8 Jul | 10am – 12pm at MJAC OR 2pm - 4pm at MAC
$5 | $4.50 members | Suitable for 6 - 12 yrs | Materials supplied
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MJAC- Midland Junction Arts Centre 276 Great Eastern Hwy Corner of Cale St Midland WA
MAC- Mundaring Arts Centre 7190 Great Eastern Hwy Corner Nichol St Mundaring WA

Image: Derbal Yerrigan (Swan River). State Library of Western Australia

Join us for a feast of food and cultural activities as we celebrate the Food for Thought project with tastings and displays of art, food and history.

Beginning in February, Food for Thought has seen community members come together to share food, skills and conversations about food culture through art.

Sat 5 Jun | 10:30am - 3:30pm | Suitable for all ages
FREE
Mundaring Arts Centre and Mundaring Adult Creative & Learning Centre

Join Leanne Bray to learn the basket making technique of stitching and coiling in the school holidays. Using thread and a length of rope, you’ll make a colourful vessel for food whilst discovering the long history of baskets as containers for all types of produce as a part of the Food For Thought Project.

Please wear enclosed shoes, clothes you don’t mind getting messy, a drink bottle and a nut free snack.

Selected pieces will be showcased in an exhibition as a part of the Food for Thought project.

Mon 12 Apr | 10am - 1pm | 8+ yrs
$5 | $4.50 Members
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Supported by the Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries, Shire of Mundaring and Lotterywest.

Learn how to use garden and farmyard materials to create a basket perfect for picking veggies with Todd Israel. This fun school holiday workshop is part of the Food for Thought project.

Fri 9 Apr | 10am – 12pm | Suitable for 7 – 12yrs
$5 | $4.50 Members | Materials supplied
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Supported by the Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries, Shire of Mundaring and Lotterywest.

Have a go at making a small decorated serving dish from clay with local artist Bernard Kerr.

You’ll make a rectangular or oval dish, perfect for serving tapas, side dishes or snacks by press moulding using a wooden form. Decorate your plate with coloured underglazes and slips using cut paper resist and sgraffito techniques.

Sun 14 Mar | 9:30am – 10:20am, 11am – 11:50am OR 12:40pm – 1:30pm
$10 | $9 Members | All ages (under 9 must be supervised by an adult)
Food for Thought Bazaar, Mundaring Sculpture Park