The Oshawa Museum is excited to provide you with activities to do at home!
Colouring Pages
Museum From Home Videos:
Check out our YouTube Channel and watch these videos!
Museum From Home: The Henry House Parlour
Museum From Home: Making Butter
The Making of the One-Room Schoolhouse Exhibit
Behind the Scenes of Henry House
Scavenger Hunt
Download this scavenger hunt to try around your house: From Time to Time Scavenger Hunt
Museum Puzzles!
Try your hand at a digital jigsaw puzzle! Visit our Jigsaw Planet account to see the online puzzles we’ve created. See how fast you can complete it!
Museum Games
Crosswords:
Street Name Crossword – check out our Street Name Stories posts to give you a hand with solving the puzzle!
The Vintage Catwalk Crossword – keeping the spirit of the exhibit going, even after it closed!
Black History Crossword – our research into Oshawa’s early Black History has formed the basis for this crossword
The Month That Was Crossword – Our monthly blog series, The Month That Was, was the inspiration for this crossword. Be sure to read the posts to help with the answers!
Oshawa Street Railway Crossword – 2013’s exhibit: Tales from the Tracks, inspired the clues for this crossword
Lakeview Park Crossword – Celebrating Lakeview Park’s 100th birthday
Word Searches:
The Vintage Catwalk Wordsearch
Oshawa Street Railway Wordsearch
Writing Prompts
We want to hear your stories! Using these historical photographs from the archival collection, write a story. You can use the given prompts to help guide your story, or simply let your creativity take the lead! (Click the pictures to make them bigger)
