The Oshawa Museum is excited to provide you with activities to do at home!
NEW for March Break 2022: Download our Spring Activity Book, filled with colouring pages, word searches, Mad Libs, and MORE
Colouring Pages
Online Workshops
Our Education Programs are going Virtual! If you’re an educator and are looking for unique and local workshops to offer for your students, our Virtual Workshops take popular programs and are made available for the classrooms.
Sign up for the workshops HERE.
The Oshawa Museum’s first digital memory box is waiting for you to unpack! Do You Remember? An Online Trip Down Memory Lane, created for an older adult audience, features twenty advertisements from between 1967 and 1999 that will have you rockin’, rollin’ and reminiscing! The digital memory box includes discussion questions, word puzzles, and links to Spotify playlists.
Start your journey into the past now, and call 905-436-7624 ext. 106 or email programming@oshawamuseum.org.
Museum From Home Videos:
Check out our YouTube Channel and watch these videos!
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
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)
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