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Be inspired to draw and create your own stories using these engaging and easy to follow instructions and resources.

Create an illustration, zine or booklet

An alpaca

How to draw an alpaca

YOU can draw an alpaca like Matt Cosgrove – it is easy with these simple instructions!

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Illustration for Macca the Alpaca by Matt Cosgrove. 

Ants are marching down a hill

How to draw an ant

Draw an ant like Tohby Riddle – follow these simple instructions and you will have a marching ant in no time!

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Illustrations for March of the Ants by Tohby Riddle. 

2 children and a cat stand in a foyer

How to make Trim with collage

Grab some coloured paper, glue and pencils to make your own Best Cat!

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Original illustration by Rosie Handley for The Best Cat, the Est Cat written by Libby Hathorn, State Library of New South Wales, 2021

A silver ear trumpet

A story in sound

Zine 1

She saw beauty all around but couldn't hear it until ...

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Silver ear trumpet and scarf belonging to Ethel Anderson

A green cicada

Cicadas

Zine 2

Meet the sap sucking herbivores with crazy names!

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Cicada / Drawn by Miss Ethel Stephens, Sydney 1886

A frog and a fairy look at a poster on a tree

How to make your own mini book

Take a piece of paper and make your own book.

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Original watercolour illustration the unpublished story, 'Hoppity's House' by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, ca. 1930 - Courtesy of Vanessa Martin and Stella Palmer