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Shannon, M.Teach | Your creative, bookish BFF šŸŽØšŸ“ššŸ‡¦šŸ‡ŗ

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You believe reading āž• creating with kids is LIFE.
Iā€™m here with art ideas āž• book talk.
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Deā€¢lightā€¢auā€¢maā€¢tised [dÉŖĖˆlŹŒÉŖtɔĖmətŹŒÉŖzÉŖd] adjective The collision of delight and trauma caused by the Australian Womenā€™s Weekly Duck Cake. šŸ¦† šŸŽ‚ Judging by the number of you who slid into my DMs after I shared my ā€œjourneyā€ with this cake, it would seem that there are many of us out there delightaumatised by this bad boy. The things we do for our kids. Give me the train cake over the duck cake any day. {I actually used a @tigga_mac hack video for this cake because have you seen the actual engineering insanity required by the original recipe? BAHAHAHAHAH.} Please allow me 6-8 business weeks to recover from this malarkey. by @ohcreativeday
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a year ago
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Libraries change lives. We are all made of stories. And if you havenā€™t read ā€˜This is Happinessā€™ by Niall Williams, go read it. Youā€™ll never want to leave Faha. taken in The State Library of New South Wales by @ohcreativeday
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5 months ago
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Hello Real Humans of Instagram! My name is Shannon and this week on one of my drives to school, I listened to a high-brow literary podcast. The next day I drove in listening to 2Pac at full volume. And that's fairly indicative of what you'll find here. It's a serve of books and process arts and crafts for kids. It's a side-serve of adult books I've enjoyed. It's tongue-in-cheek parenting. It's a bit of my teaching life. It's A LOT of random thoughts. It's perfectly imperfect. It's all over the shop. I LOVE ALL THE NICHES. Thank you to @andrea.nelson.art for sharing my book and introducing me to so many more rad humans (oh yeah! I wrote a book and it's out now blah blah) So- who are you? Forever yours in books, art and pumpkin pies, Shannon taken in Wangal Country by @ohcreativeday
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3 years ago
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If this were Ancient Rome - stick with me and this factually inaccurate analogy, PUH-LEASE - then Cristin from @artsplorers_au would be my Patron. Nobody champions the Arts and creators like Cristin. We first started following each other back in the Insta Olden Days (when the feed was chronological!) That first photo dates back to one of my READ + CREATE classes and remains one of my favourite photos- Cristinā€™s daughters hard at work creating. Those little ladies are now tall humans! Cristin has brought her daughters along to a fair few of my events and workshops- always cheering me on and supporting me in my random creative adventures. We catch up at as many bookish events as we can and I always appreciate her astute PoVs on basically everything. We (self-)declared ourselves to be the Presidents of the @trentdaltonauthor Fan Club. If Cristin gives a book a glowing review, I know I will love it. When I donā€™t know what to do with my kids in Sydney in the school holidays, I slide straight into Cristinā€™s DMs because she always KNOWS. Every time we catch up, we throw our hands in the air, lament and declare that this is our FINAL YEAR on Instagram. Come what may, Iā€™m so grateful that this silly little app brought me into Cristinā€™s orbit. Anyhoo, why should you care about this Galentineā€™s story? Because I think it illustrates how important it is to champion and cheerlead others. Be like Cristin. by @ohcreativeday
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3 days ago
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If you donā€™t hear from me, itā€™s because the cockatoos have got me. I got home from school this arvo and many of my neighbours were in their front yards just eyeing off the crackle of cockatoos sitting on all the power lines. (How GOOD a collective noun is that?!) They were divebombing people and literally holding up traffic. For a few weeks a year, a particular kind of tree fruits on our street and cockatoos descend from WHO KNOWS WHERE and take over our street. The air is filled with their squawking and they leave fruit littered down the street. And then they all suddenly disappear. Until next year. Some might say they terrorise us but I kinda love it. Itā€™s their world and weā€™re just living in it. Let me know if you give this simple craft a go. You just need some wooden spoons! by @ohcreativeday
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a year ago
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Today was the first day of Term 4 at my school. During the first week of each term, I like to tell students about the books I read in the school holidays. Why? A) Because talking about books is how I like to spend 86% of my life; B) because before the holidays, I always tell students to read lots of good books in the holidays. Why should they do it if Iā€™m not doing it? C) it normalises conversations about our reading identities; D) it leads to conversations about the books students enjoyed in the holidays. I spent a large portion of today raving about this book, and I now have a waitlist of readers eager to borrow it as soon as it is a part of our library collection. I love @saraharmstrongwriterā€™s books for three main reasons. 1) Her pacing is epic. I described it as a ā€œsuspenseful page-turnerā€ to all of Year 4 today. 2) She has a knack for developing young, complex characters with deep inner worlds. In this story, Max must fight for survival after a tsunami hits. As he navigates this situation, he is also deeply reflective about his family, his feelings and his home. 3) Sarah explores family dynamics so deftly. If you have an upper primary + reader who loves adventure, suspense, with a touch of apocalyptic vibes, Iā€™d grab them a copy of ā€˜The Wave.ā€™ by @ohcreativeday
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3 days ago
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Birds- yay or nay? My husband and I joke that when I retire Iā€™m going to buy one of those vests with many pockets, some expensive binoculars, and then travel to far-flung places to watch birds. Until then, I channel my obsession into birdy kidsā€™ art and craft projects and the @guardianaustralia Bird of the Year competition. Havenā€™t heard of it? Itā€™s like the ultimate election campaign X Hunger Games X The Voice. A list of Australian birds is released and people vote to save their faves from elimination. Screams were scrummed at my place when the Gouldian Finch was eliminated. Cries of anguish were heard when the Magpie was booted. I swore some swears when the Cassowary went. I feel like the Rainbow Lorikeet deserves its moment in the spotlight. Does anybody really love a Bin Chicken? The final round of voting has closed and tomorrow we discover who is crowned Australiaā€™s favourite bird. Will anybody beat the Tawny Frogmouth? All of my votes went to the Willy Wagtail. My son is all about Team Kookaburra. Other family members are partial to the Gang Gang and the Baudinā€™s Black Cockatoo. Will the Curlew stage an upset? Did you vote? Who for? by @ohcreativeday
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a year ago
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See that gap on the table front and centre? The stack of books missing from that spot had just been announced as the winner of the Picture Book category of the @wilderness_aus 2026 Environment Awards for Childrenā€™s Literature.* Swipe to see the craft that was inspired by this winning book. Keep swiping to see all the winners that were announced yesterday to mark the start of Nature Book Week. Check them out at your local bookstore or library! It was a cracker of an afternoon, celebrating @loveyourbookshopau and 32 years of the @wilderness_aus celebrating the best new fiction, non-fiction and picture books written for children that promote a love of nature. And always glorious to see fellow book champions @krisddarell and @artsplorers_au. *the books were missing because they had been whisked away to be signed by the author. Signed copies of ā€˜One Koala, One Hundred Treesā€™ now available at Harry Hartog Chatswood. by @ohcreativeday
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6 days ago
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Sydneysiders! What are you doing tomorrow? Iā€™ll be at Harry Hartog Chatswood with @wilderness_aus celebrating the start of Nature Book Week āž• @loveyourbookshopau Day! Drop by at 1:30 and join me to create your own top koala-ty craft. šŸØšŸØ Meet 2026 judges @krisddarell and @johnwilliamsonmusic and be the first to hear who the winners are from the amazing Nature Book Week shortlist. šŸŒ±šŸ“š by @ohcreativeday
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8 days ago
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Why yes, we did make the last-minute decision to take a long weekend trip to Canberra. And why yes, of course, I told my family that an excursion to the @nationallibraryaus was mandatory. ā€œYouā€™re so cringe, Mum. Act more nonch.ā€ ā€œNonch?ā€ ā€œNonchalant.ā€ WATCH ME CHALANT ALL OVER THIS TOWN, BABES. (Welcome to my holiday slide night.) Visiting the Nationā€™s Capital, for me, reinforced how stories are at the heart of all human existence. Canberra is a place rich in storytelling - I loved the way the stories of our nation are told in so many forms and formats. We practised some weaving after seeing the Arthur Boyd: Tapestries exhibit at the @nationalgalleryaus. What a truly epic story involving an Australian artist, an Italian saint and a Portuguese tapestry manufacturer. Our hearts need the arts. I am rubbish at taking nice photos on holidays. And then I am filled with post-holiday regret that I didnā€™t take any nice photos. So I steal them off my husbandā€™s phone, and letā€™s see how closely he pays attention to my Insta habits, and if he turns up cranky in my comments that I stole his photos, and passed them off as my own. (Yes, of course we went to @floriade_australia.) Floriade makes for the BEST people-watching. Something about all that glorious nature makes people act CRAY, and ridiculously delightful, and/or delightfully ridiculous. Can report that the flowers were also excellent, and the bees approved. (I DID take this video. I didnā€™t scrape it from my husbandā€™s phone.) Yes Iā€™m turning into my mother and take photos of signs whilst Iā€™m on holidays. BUT LOOK - There was a flower bed designed to look like fairy bread! Excellent. No notes. I mortgaged my home to buy this overpriced kite that all overwhelmed and overwrought parents buy at Floriade. The amount of joy that it brought my son was honestly delightful. I regret nothing. Is there anything more joyful than a kid flying a kite? His name is Barney (the kite, not the kid.) Welcome to the family, Barney. We did the family orienteering challenge at the @nationalarboretumcanberra. ā€œWhatā€™s an arboretum, mum?ā€ ā€œItā€™s like a museum for trees.ā€ (Humans can be rad.) (Barney came too.) When I tell yo by @ohcreativeday
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10 days ago
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As a child growing up in Australia, if I left my shoes outside, I remember being told to always give them a shake before putting them back on. This was to make sure that no Redback Spiders had crawled into your shoes! Turns out this was a bit of a tall story as Redbacks rarely leave their webs. Inject some Aussie wildlife into your Halloween with these Redback Spiders. Theyā€™re project number 16 in my #52WeeksofOhCreativeAnimals, sharing some of the weird and wonderful wildlife that call Australia home. Not everything in Australia will kill you. Promise. Comment REDBACK and Iā€™ll send you the link to this template and project instructions. by @ohcreativeday
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2 years ago
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Happy NAIDOC Week! ā¤ļøšŸ’›šŸ–¤ Books are an easy way to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, knowledges, achievements, and histories are showcased to Aussie kids every week of the year. I am chuffed to be an ambassador for the @wilderness_aus 2026 Karajia and Environment Awards for Childrenā€™s Literature. The Karajia Awards spotlight First Nations stories and creators. Check out this shortlist! Winners will be announced during Nature Book Week, October 10 - 18. Until then, check out these books at your local public library or school library. If theyā€™re not available, request them! #NatureBookWeek by @ohcreativeday
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3 months ago
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