Ideas for Theme Day on Australian Culture

Sports - Present different sports, such as rugby, cricket, Australian rule football, surfing

Show sports equipment

Name the sport and how to use the equipment

Make surf boards

Music - Tribal music, rain makers

Picture of didgeridoo player

Picture of Aboriginal Didgeridoo Player

Make instruments such as didgeridoo from tubes and paint them, and clap sticks, wobble boards

Play instruments, listen to instruments, dancing

Bush dance - simple music for children to tap the rhythm or move to music

Lifestyle - Christmas on the beach

Life Guards

Schools - by radio

Houses

Ranching - sheep farming, shearing

Flowers

Flying doctors

Television programs such as Neighbours an Home and Away

Weather Slip, slap, slop

- Slip on a shirt

- Slap on a hat

- Slop on cream

Beach life - role play

Have a day dressed in shorts

Clothes - why do the Australians wear hats, shorts, flip flops (thongs)

Make sand pictures

Tie die

History of Australia - Discovery, aborigines, cave paintings

Make hats with corks - explain why the corks are needed

Make Boomerangs, try them

Compare the size of Britain to Australia on a map

Show the different types of nature

Language

Picture of the outback

Australian Outback

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