Kids give art a bash in Anglesea

HUNDREDS of children are getting creative and having a great time in Anglesea this month at the Kids Art Bash.

Run annually by the Anglesea Art House in Cameron Road as a holiday program, sessions in this year’s bash started on January 2 and will run until January 21.

Art activities include painting on canvas, ceramic painting and mosaics, as well as “Art to Go” activities such as making dreamcatchers, jelly fish and spiders, and air dry clay modelling.

“It’s been going gangbusters, we’ve had so many visitors,” Anglesea Art House’s Jennifer O’Sullivan said.

“We have a lot of locals, a lot of people who come down from Torquay or come up fron Aireys Inlet, but there’s a lot of people from the caravan park, and also people who’ll come down for a day trip if they’ve seen what we do, as an outing.”

She said this year’s Kids Art Bash was attracting record numbers.

“We’ve been going just a week, and we would have had probably 1,400 people. I’d say it’s quite a bit up – possibly because you haven’t got the overhang of COVID this year; there just seems to be more people around everywhere on the Surf Coast.”

Ms O’Sullivan said the volunteer-run program was open every day until January 21, and attendees could drop in and out as much as they liked.

“If they’re doing a mosaic project, for example, they purchase that project and they can go two or three days to finish that project; it’s not costing them anything else.”

Prices range from $3 to $25 per activity, and bookings are not needed – just turn up.

For more information on the Kids Art Bash, head to angleseaarthouse.com.au/events/kids-art-bash-january-2024