Brisbane Ekka Over For Another Year (Brisbane Australia)

This review is written by Arabella (6 years).

Ekka is fun for the kids and good for the adults too. In this photo, we are making a Cress head [a herb]. This activity was sponsored by Woolworths. The background is the Woolworths pavillon. You get to taste some breads, salmon on crackers, olives and much more.

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The Street Science booth was new this year and was a big hit for the kids as well as the adults. We got to make fake snow and sparkly goo. Street science do parties at a place of your choice.

Me and my brother got to make ‘ tacos in a jar’. It was very yummy and my brother ate his carrots even though he doesn’t like them. You can make it at home very simply.

Side show alley was fun .My brother enjoyed this game because he got to throw sharp darts. He won a little monkey which is why he was so happy with himself. He called it Dylan C. We went to Ekka on the last day. Even though some of the show bags were sold out, there were some that were cheaper because it was the last day and they wanted to get rid of them. Overall I love Ekka! My favorite rides were the Waterball ($10) , the Magic Circus ($6) and the Rockstar($10).

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My daughter’s school has project-based finals instead of tests in the spring, and in her geometry class last year the students constructed a scale model of a town complete with three-dimensional buildings.

Of course building a paper town doesn’t have to include a geometry lesson (they also calculated the volume of their buildings) but it is a fun way to get kids to express their creativity by decorating the buildings and talking about the things they would want to include in their own town.

Putting buildings together is a test of fine-motor skills, and if kids are working on a town together they’ll need to negotiate what goes where and why.

Get started with the house printables from Kids Activities Blog. They’ve got a “plain” roof house and a “fancy” roof house to choose from. Just print, color, cut out and assemble.

You might want more than just houses in your little town, though, so I went hunting for some more printable templates you can use to make different kinds of buildings.

Brother has printable skyscrapers, cars, people, trees and lights (shown above) that are meant to be printed in color buy you can do them in black and white so kids can color them in if you want.

Printablee has another colorized set of paper buildings including different kinds of houses and something that maybe looks like a church or school.

If you’re willing and bale to pay for printables to use in your paper town, there are lots of great ones available on Etsy. Ludlow Prints has a collection with a school, grocery store, bakery and other buildings, while Paper Fun By Yumi includes things like a hospital, fire department and police station (essential if you’ve done a community helpers unit!).

Tiger Bee Learning has a printable set with 20 different buildings, including a bank, library, museum and zoo to name a few, as well as a blank template for kids to design their own buildings. Once you have the basics of making a piece of paper into a 3D building down, kids are sure to want to make their own buildings to add to the town.

Older kids can also write about why they picked the buildings they did, and littler kids will have fun building their town over and over again.

[Photo: Brother]

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