What secret worlds are hiding right under your nose? Inspired by the fun of camouflage and games like Mecha-Chameleon, this day is all about looking twice, spotting the unexpected and hiding imagination inside the everyday!

Morning: Secret Still Life Painting
Young artists will work from a real still-life arrangement of skulls, plans and oddities, learning the foundations of composition, observation, colour and watercolour painting. But there’s a catch: hidden amongst the everyday objects they will invent strange characters, secret creatures and unexpected surprises of their own invention hiding. How much can you hide before someone notices?

Afternoon: Pop Up Hidden Treasure Maps
Create a pop up map filled with secrets, clues and places waiting to be discovered. Young artists will invent their own terrain, landmarks, symbols and hidden treasures, building an illustrated map that rewards anyone curious enough to look closely.

Look closer - the best secrets are hiding where you least expect them.

What would you grow if nature had absolutely no rules? Welcome to a garden where flowers can bite, cacti can have personalities and Venus flytraps are only the beginning!

Morning: Painted Pots
In the morning, we’ll transform your own terracotta pot with colour, pattern and painted details before dreaming up the extraordinary plant that might live inside it. Will yours be beautiful, bizarre, dangerous, hilarious or a bit of everything?

Afternoon: Peculiar Creatures in Motion
Bring an imaginary plant to life through sculpture. Think snapping Venus flytraps, mutant cacti, strange flowers, alien plants and completely new species that have never grown anywhere before. Young artists will explore form, texture and construction while letting their ideas grow wild.

Forget green thumbs - all you need is a wild imagination!

Step into our Story Studio, where a single image can unlock an entire world. Young artists will discover how visual clues, mysterious objects and carefully chosen details can spark adventures no one has told before.

Morning: The Book That Doesn’t Exist
Young artists will design and paint their own book - a real 3D book shell that can sit on a bookshelf while secretly holding tiny treasures inside! They’ll explore the building blocks of great cover design, including imaginative titles, font, illustration, composition and colour choices, to create a mysterious book artwork - part object and part secret keeper!

Afternoon: The Missing Page
A fragile fragment of an old book has surfaced - mostly picture, with just a few stray words, like a relic from a lost story. Young artists will use the pieces in their artwork, studying the clues before drawing, painting and extending what remains, using problem-solving and imagination to reconstruct what the missing page could have been. At the end, we’ll bring the pages together and discover the unexpected story our puzzle solvers have created!

There are stories everywhere. Sometimes you just need one tiny clue to find them!

Every great adventurer needs a side kick! This day is about inventing characters with personality… from brave little guardians and loyal companions to sweet weirdos and mischievous tricksters!

Morning: Pocket Companion Keychains
Design your own collectible-style companion: pocket-sized and full of personality! Using foam and mixed materials, young artists will build a clip-on sidekick, friend, guardian or trickster, using shape, colour, costume and tiny details to tell us who their character might be. A little figure that hints at a much bigger story, ready to clip onto a bag or belt and come along for the ride!

Afternoon: Hero Habitats
Every great character needs a place to call their own. Batman has the Batcave, SpongeBob has his pineapple, and Mario has the Mushroom Kingdom, but where does your character belong? Young artists will invent an original character, then use acrylic on canvas to paint them in a scene filled with clues about who they are. Where do they live? What do they love? What treasures, tools or peculiar objects surround them? Young artists joining us in the morning can use their Pocket Companion as inspiration, imagining the place their new sidekick calls home.

From character to canvas - dream up a new companion and the place they belong!

Food can be delicious, disgusting, completely impossible - and full of memories. Today we’re playing with food through sculpture, imagination and storytelling.

Morning - Clay Kitchen
Welcome to the Clay Kitchen, where anything can end up on the menu! Young artists will sculpt their own miniature fantasy meals transforming them into charms, Croc jibbits, magnets or pencil toppers! Recreate your absolute favourite food, or cook up something deliciously impossible — tentacle spaghetti, eyeball meatballs, intergalactic burgers... anything goes!

Afternoon - Once Upon a Plate
Create a plate-shaped artist book/zine where every turn reveals another food story! Using drawing, watercolour and playful paper mechanisms including flaps and moving surprises, young artists will explore foods connected to people, places and memories - their favorite birthday cake, Mum’s curry, a mandy from their garden tree, Christmas lunch, holiday treats or simply their favorite snack of all time!

Come hungry for ideas - this is one menu where absolutely anything goes!

What happens when we shrink our perspective? Make something tiny in the morning, then get down to bug level in the afternoon and discover just how enormous the ordinary world can become!

Morning: Clay Critters
Step into the miniature world of bugs. Young artists will sculpt creatures from air dry clay, learning essential clay techniques including joining, cutting and sgraffito. Make a favourite real-life insect or invent a species nobody has ever discovered - cute, creepy, colourful or completely peculiar.

Afternoon: Bug’s Eye View
Get down low and see the world through bugs eyes! In this plein-air drawing and watercolour session, young artists will explore perspective from ground level, looking upwards and imagining what the environment might feel like when you’re only a few millimeters tall. Blades of grass become towering forests, mushrooms become houses and ordinary gardens become enormous landscapes.

Sometimes you have to get really, really small to see something BIG.

Let’s build the impossible! Today young artists become Place Makers, creating extraordinary places from the outside in - from wild landscapes and tiny adventures to impossible interiors that play tricks on your eyes!

Morning: Diorama-rama!
Mountains! Volcanoes! Underwater hideaways! Wild Western deserts! Futuristic cities at sunset! Young artists will use cardboard, acrylic paint and mixed-media sculpture to build an imagined outdoor scene in the round, packed with intrigue, atmosphere and tiny details. Then they’ll create a miniature adventurer - perhaps even a tiny version of themselves - and send them in to explore!

Afternoon: Upside Down Land
Is it popping out... or disappearing in? Things get wonderfully strange in Upside Down Land! Young artists will discover reverse perspective - a clever optical illusion where a 3D form that physically projects towards you can appear to stretch away into the distance. Using drawing, perspective and paper construction, they’ll build and illustrate their own impossible interior. Design an art gallery, a creepy haunted room or a completely bizarre space of your own - then find the perfect viewing point and watch your sculpture seem to flip inside out before your eyes!

Wild places, impossible spaces and adventures waiting to happen.

It’s all about the face! Draw it, spin it, roll it, remix it! Explore anime-inspired character design, animation and chance to create faces that move, change and surprise you.

Morning: Animated Anime
Explore the building blocks of cartoon and anime-style faces and discover how small changes to eyes, mouths, eyebrows and features communicate emotion. Then, turn your drawings into a lo-fi spinning animation, using a series of illustrations to make your unique character move before your eyes!

Afternoon: Game Maker’s Art Dice
You are the game maker. Your tools: dice, drawing and a little bit of luck! Young artists will design and build their own set of illustrated art dice, loading each one with different eyes, noses, mouths and other character features. Then it’s time to roll! Let chance decide your combinations, challenge your friends and go head-to-head creating the wild, weird and wonderfully unexpected faces the dice throw your way.

Big expressions, wild combinations and characters you never saw coming.