What's on in Wagga for the school holidays? Festival of W, art workshops and more

Art camp returns to the Wagga Art Gallery this week, with sessions for various ages. Today a kids program at 10am for those aged between 6 and 12 with artist Emily Shannon looks at creating birdlife monoprints with found botanicals. A teens session from 1pm uses everyday items to whip up hardware jewellery. Cost is $25, book through waggaartgallery.com.au.

There is construction madness at the engineering, robotics and electronics holiday camp held at Wagga Christian College. Go for one or two days as the Young Engineers Australia team welcomes all young builders aged between six and 15 to the winter camp. Join the waitlist on Trybooking.

On the Wagga Art Gallery art camp agenda is a family session with Trish Harrison making new from old by reinventing unwanted old toys into crazy new characters. Teens can tackle block printing clothes with personality in an afternoon timeslot.

All-ages bingo is the best bet for whiling away an hour from 2pm at the Wagga City Library.

Wonderful weaving will keep the younger kids busy at the Wagga Art Gallery's camp from 10am, while teens get stuck into upcycling the wardrobe with hand stitching in the afternoon.

Young artists can find a new use for paper in sculptures at the Wagga Art Gallery holidays camp at 10am. Teens explore digital animation on their phone and bring simple sketches to life at 1pm.

A winter family movie fills in the afternoon at Wagga City Library as part of Festival of W. It's a great stop before or after scouting around the festival. Movie starts at 5pm.

The magic of Dr Seuss's The Cat in the Hat comes to life on the Civic Theatre stage not once, but twice. See civictheatre.com.au for details and to book.

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