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Have you met the Dino Gang? They’re the museum’s fun-loving dinosaur friends who have the BEST activities and colouring pages to share with you!
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Are you ready for hands-on Museum fun from the comfort of your home? Explore our range of family-friendly activities inspired by items in Museums Victoria's collections and exhibitions!
How to make a sea bunny
Create your own Sea Bunny for the Lunar New Year of the Rabbit (water element).
Trickster quiz
Are you easily tricked? Test your knowledge on some objects that can even have the experts scratching their heads.
Mindfulness for kids
Stuck indoors? Let this video specifically designed for kids take you to the Otways National Park.
Heal Country! Bunjil’s Feathers
Get creative by writing, colouring and decorating your very own paper Bunjil feather!
Dino Moves
Learn some deadly dinosaur moves with Simone and Justin.
River tales
A musical adventure along the beautiful Birrarung (Yarra River) with home-made percussion instruments.
Make your own T-rex mask
Roar like never before by creating a colourful, paper T-rex mask you can wear at home!
Let's make a paper kaleidoscope
Explore light, reflection and symmetry using this fun and creative paper toy.
Build your own sauropod, Spike
Colour and create an Amargausarus and design your own neck sail!
Virtual Play Box
We're bringing the Play Box to you with our three-part series for early learners!
Native Australian Bees
Learn about bees with our BeeZine – a little magazine full of fun activities and facts about three Australian Native Bees.
Booty and the Beast
How well do you know your animal backsides? Take our quiz to see if you can match them all!
Meteors and meteorites
Do you know your meteorites from your meteors? Take our quiz to test your knowledge!
What do these birds eat?
Did you know the shape of a bird's bill will give you clues about what that bird likes to eat? Take our quiz and see if you can match the food to the bill!
Bird calls
How well do you know your bird calls? Take our quiz and see if you can identify them all!
The 'Is it cute?' quiz
Watch the videos and then put your knowledge to the test!
Let's draw a Willie Wagtail
Aren’t birds lovely? We love to draw all the beautiful birds that live near us. One of our favourites is the Willie Wagtail.
Colouring river animals
Have you been out exploring your local rivers, creeks, beaches or dams? We’d love for you to colour in these different creatures from Victoria's waterways.
River animals
Our First People’s Educator Di-Di Vaha’akolo shares some special drawings from our River of Language exhibition
Drawing creatures
Some of the books in our Museum library feature pictures of strange looking creatures, like sea lions with bushy manes and giant sea serpents. Why is that?
How to make a paper rat
What do you know about Australia's fascinating rodents? Let's make a paper rat and find out more about our furry neighbours.
Backyard Bioblitz
Have you ever wanted to carry out fieldwork like our museum staff? Find out how to do your own Backyard Bioblitz!
Acknowledgement of Country poster
Learn about National Reconciliation Week by making your own Acknowledgement of Country poster.
Make a blue banded bee model
To celebrate World Bee Day on 20 May, we show you how to build a model of the blue banded bee.
Ride safe
Is your family spending more time on bikes, scooters or skateboards lately? Learn how to properly fit a bicycle helmet.
Ptero-draw!
Did you know that the Pterodactyl was not a dinosaur? Invent your very own pterosaur using our activity sheets.
Meet a lizard, make a lizard
Step into the garden with Justin to meet someone special and be inspired to create your very own climbing gecko!
Make a card
While we’re in isolation we thought it was the perfect time for sending a personal, handmade card to someone you care about!
Creatures from the abyss
Join us on a journey into the deep before you can then download your very own worksheet of abyssal creatures, and create some of your own!
Colour in a dinosaur
We’d love to know what colour you think a dinosaur might be. Can you help us out?
Let's draw an owl
Help out our Ornithologists (a big fancy word for people who study birds) by learning more about the owls that live in Victoria.
Puzzles
We’ve turned some of our much loved collection items and galleries into online puzzles.
Make your own tiger stripes
Make your own tiger’s stripes through hydro-dipping!
The Listies totally serious 100% fact filled guide to the Melbourne Museum
The Listies take you on a LOLtastic tour of Melbourne Museum to see shark dentists, dinosaur salesmen and the insect Oscars!
Rich (the smart one) and Matt (the other one) welcome you as they venture forth to discover the secrets of the Learnadome (what Matt calls the Museum).
The Fact Detectives: Kinderling Kids Radio
The Fact Detectives brings Museums Victoria’s research and collections to life as Anika and Dexter (the hosts) go on a mission to find out exciting facts from our experts who tell them the coolest things about their areas of expertise.
Find out interesting things like, are there really killer butterflies? Did monster kangaroos once roam the land? And what exactly is a fossil?
From our other museums
Constellations in a cup
Hold a galaxy in your hands, with this constellation in a cup activity. Ask a grown up for some help, so you can enjoy the projections together!
The blackest black
Learn about one of the darkest human-made materials and how animals use black to their advantage in nature.
Hidden messages in colour
Send a top-secret message using coloured pencils and cellophane!
Changing colour with cabbage
Create a colour-changing liquid and gorgeous artworks with some cabbage and simple household items.
Let's tie-dye a mask
Have you ever tried Tie Dying?
Make rainbows into energy!
Physicist and Chemist Dr Kyra Schwarz helps us learn about how she uses rainbows in her research.
Play with coloured shadows
Have you ever wished your shadow was colourful? Learn how to use a few simple items to play with light and create a spectacular shadow wall.
Why are bubbles colourful?
Do you love watching the swirling colours in a bubble? Learn about where these colours come from with this simple activity.
Let's make a rainbow
There is more than meets the eye with this experiment. Use some household items to pull apart colour and create some gorgeous art.
Make a model of the lung
Learn how to use household items to make a model of how your lungs work!
Hello from the moon!
Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut, blasting off into space?
Painting a nebula
Massive, glowing, colourful space clouds! Bring these stunning nebulae into your home with a few art supplies.
The Solar System in your pocket
This activity will have you creating a paper model of the distances in our Solar System that you can pop in your pocket.
First Peoples in Australia Astronomy
Let’s explore a few of the constellations of the Boorong people of North West Victoria!
Make a galaxy biscuit
Decorate biscuits taking inspiration from the Milky Way.
Stargazing in winter
Look up at the night sky with us this winter!
Make your own ball run!
Why does an apple fall from a tree? Or a spin top spin? Or a ball roll or bounce?
Let's make slime!
Icky yucky sticky disgusting slime! Learn how to use household items to make your own.
How to make a magnifying glass
Have you ever wondered why things look bigger when you look at them with a magnifying glass? We will show you how to make your own.
Make it melt
Have you been grabbing treats and ingredients out of the freezer? While you’re there why not grab some ice to experiment with?
Make magnets at home
Are magnets natural or made by humans? Simon answers this question as he explores some different types of magnets, including lodestones and electromagnets.
Let’s make bubbles
What’s more fun than bubbles? Learn how to use household items to create your own bubble wand!
Mini lightning and thunder
Lightning strikes around the world about 100 times a second. What is lightning, and where does it come from?
Getting sticky with static
Have you ever received a static shock from jumping on a trampoline? Or touching a door knob? Experiment with static electricity at home!
Make a floating device
Design, build and test your own floating device using creativity, problem solving and a few things from around your house.
Find the full moon
Full moons only happen once every month! Tonight, why not have a go at our moon activity?
Ramadan activities for kids
Making and doing is a great way to learn, so we’ve put together some simple activities that the whole family can get involved in throughout Ramadan.
Dye your own eggs
Make your own creations inspired by the beautiful egg decorating traditions from Eastern and Mediterranean Europe.