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Looking for things to do at home or school? Take a look at these worksheets and activities.

Art Gallery Explorer Cards
Pacific Printmaking
He Waka Eke Noa
Waka Huia

Explore our set of colouring activities based on works from our collection - check them out here. 

Have a go at curating your own exhibition with the works in our collection using My Gallery 

We would love to see your work when it's done - take a photo and send it to schools@christchurchartgallery.org.nz or tag us on social media!

Our lessons often book up fast but you are always welcome to bring your students on a self-guided tour of the Gallery. We have a wonderful resources for the Te Wheke: Pathways Across Oceania exhibition which you can use to guide your students through the spaces. Check out all of our current exhibitions here. 

Please ensure you go over the Gallery Guidelines with your students so that they are aware of expectations in the Gallery spaces.

Email schools@christchurchartgallery.org.nz and let us know when to expect you. so we are able manage any clashes with events and other tours. 

Students will take away an appreciation of art and consider a selection works that can cover a range of subjects, styles, media and purposes. The works viewed will be a selection from our current exhibitions. Students are expected to discuss and question what they see. Tours can be tailored to all levels.

Bookings essential.

Download our Gallery Guidelines below.

Take a guided tour of selected works in Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection and examine how artists use colour, space, form and pattern to activate the eye. During the tour students will make recordings to use in the Education Centre where they will create an abstract work of art to take back to school.

Explore the Gallery with your students, discuss a range of artists’ work and explore ideas of navigation, belonging, identity and how we are connected across time and place. During the guided tour students will use signs and symbols to create a pictorial map of their own identity and journey through the Gallery which they will then complete using watercolour and pastel in our Education Centre. A great lesson for preschoolers and junior primary students!

Come and experience Maureen Lander’s magical UV light installation in Perilous with your class. Students will discuss how Lander has brought together different art forms and histories, from Māori string games to conceptual art before heading back to the classroom to create their own sculptural string  performance using IMovie and a green screen.

Available from 12 August

The students be taken on a tour of Robin White’s portrait artworks along with contemporary Ōtautahi photographer Margaret Dawson. Explore their emotional depth, social relevance, visual power  of self portraits. Back in the education centre we will create our own self portrait channelling these wāhine toa.

Exhibition developed by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and toured by Te Papa.

Available 22 July - 5 November

Explore personal and collective histories, relationships to the environment, transitions between places and across time through textiles and moving image. Learn about the use of soft materials in sculptural practice, and the rise of textile art in history. The students will investigate and traverse through a pile of recycled materials to make a 3 dimensional sculpture of their own to take back to class.

Explore connections between our histories and future, creating new languages and ways of seeing, and uncovering the unexpected through recycling, reusing, and rewriting. The students will take a walk through Perlious to discover these paintings can be made up of layers of stories and of materials alike. We will then take these ideas back into the classroom to make their own collage to take away.