School Holiday Sea Stories in the Boatshed

Next event date: Wednesday, 16 April 2025 | 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Give your kids an experience filled with stories, creativity, and maritime history these April school holidays! Join in our crafty Sea Stories Session, where authors Diane Jackson Hill and Kerri Erler will read their children's books: Windcatcher: Migration of the Short-tailed Shearwater and Bozo the Brave. Children will set off on journeys of adventure at sea and craft their own interpretations.

 

Join children’s books authors Diane Jackson Hill and Kerri Erler in the Queenscliffe Maritime Museum’s Gil Allbutt Boatshed, as they read their stories about amazing animals at sea; Wind catcher: Migration of the Short-tailed Shearwater and Bozo the Brave. Through these stories you will join a short-tailed shearwater called Hope on her 30,000 kilometer migration from Griffiths Island, Victoria, to the Antarctic Circle, as well as the cocker spaniel Bozo’s epic journey navigating the dangerous waters of ‘The Rip’, after he falls off a fisherman’s boat.

After the story readings, children will get a chance to enact the stormy winds that help and hinder Hope, with streamers and musical accompaniment. They will also create their very own illustrations of Bozo and Hope’s journeys, inventing alternative outcomes for these adventurous characters.

Perfect for: Primary school students aged 6-10

Date: Wednesday 16th April

Time: 11:00 am -12:30 pm

Cost: $6 per child (includes entry to view museum collections), parents or guardians attend for free. If viewing museum collections, parents and guardians will be required to pay museum entry costs. Carers card holders, free entry.

Location: Gil Allbutt Boatshed at the Queenscliffe Maritime Museum

2 Wharf Street, Queenscliff, Victoria

 

 

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The Gil Allbutt Boatshed at the Queenscliffe Maritime Museum, 2 Wharf Street, Queenscliff, 3225, View map