step right up—it’s Circus Tricks Week! Using the stuff around you (and the stuff between your ears), you’ll practice feats of showmanship and learn to combine them into circus acts brimming with personal style.

It looks like the circus has packed up and left town—until next time! Now let’s turn our attention inward and imagine new worlds of our own making. What will inspire them? What will they look like? And what will you wear?! This week, we train our theatermaking spotlight on set and costume design.

Guided by New Victory Teaching Artists, Arts Break is a curriculum designed for the millions of families stuck at home to incorporate the performing arts into their learning. It’s Playmaking Week! By the end of this week, you’ll have everything you need to write and perform your very own scenes and short plays.

Last week you explored the basic elements needed to tell an engaging story for the stage, but there’s more to the theatrical experience than characters, setting and plot. This week, it’s time to expand and enrich the world of your theatrical creations by designing props and soundscapes!

Order a sketchbook, fill it up, and send it back to be a part of the world’s largest collection of artist sketchbooks! Every participant is sent the same 5x7'' blank custom sketchbook. Each book will be given a unique six-digit barcode so we can easily catalog it into Brooklyn Art Library's system.

London-based artist Lisa Lloyd is offering an amusing tutorial to create her tiny paper prawns at home. The downloadable instructions, which are available for free on her site, are complete with a printable template and a supply list. She also released a simple video series for those who prefer visual learning.

Kotaku Australia's hand-picked list of 10 relaxing games, which will appeal to kids and adults alike. Many are Aussie-made, too! Click here for the list.

Awesome Arts has collected a selection of fun, evidenced-based play ideas for children aged 0 – 5 and WA curriculum-linked teaching resources for children aged 6 – 12. Click here.

These art projects are designed especially for kids and grown-ups to do together. All of the activities are based on works of art in the Whitney's collection. They introduce you to some of the diverse ways that artists think and work, and we hope they inspire the artist in you too! Click here to find out more...

Conversations with Rain has been created by Art Gallery of WA Learning and ECU School of Education exploring children’s creative relations with the weather as a way of potentially transforming our climate futures. Click here to download.

GET INVOLVED!

Print out copies for each member of your family or household and follow the prompts (ACT, BELONG), listen to the sound files provided as you respond to the prompts in the Conversations with Rain journal. When your finished share (COMMIT) a video or photos of your creation with the ART ON THE MOVE community by tagging us on Instagram or Facebook and by using the hashtag #conversationswithrain #artinwa.

Recreate the look of a Cirque du Soleil artist with step-by-step makeup hosted by makeup artist/acrobat Kyle Cragle.

Click here to check out a series of face painting workshops!