✦ A registered Australian creative studio
Wearable Art & Creative Learning Hub
handmade, one of a kind
One studio, two pillars. 12Kangaroos Wearables are our one of a kind, handmade art earrings. 12ArtyRoos Studio is where kids & teachers explore, express & represent through visual arts. Making art and learning art — one creative cycle.
These 12 Kangaroo earrings are a little wild and wonderfully grounded. Rough cut lapis lazuli, left just as the earth shaped it, sits against natural stone and is anchored on a warm brass base. Each pair feels like a talisman: deep blue skies, ancient rock, and the quiet strength of the kangaroo in motion. Designed in the Adelaide Hills on the women's river, a place where crafting, weaving, and storytelling have always flowed hand-to-hand, these earrings honour slow making, intuition, and imperfect beauty. No two are the same, because nature never repeats herself, and neither do you.
Every pair is made once and photographed here in the studio. The earring bench is having a little rest while I care for my health, so nothing is for sale just now.
the flock will hop back when I am well ✦
Real hands, real paint, real ideas — where young makers explore, express & represent the world.
Students learn to explore, express, represent ideas and communicate through visual arts practices.
✨ Free, printable lesson guides below — one for every age.
The Australian Curriculum groups Visual Arts into developmental bands. Here's what young makers are building at each stage — and a free, printable lesson guide to match.
Quick, quirky, open-ended art prompts for the classroom or the kitchen table — each one built to get young makers exploring, expressing & representing. Hover or tap to flip!
Paintings, landscapes, birds, florals and life drawings from the studio — so parents and young makers can see where exploring, expressing & representing can lead.
Five hands-on art activities, one for each curriculum band, each with a free printable lesson guide and a simple list of what you'll need. Pick your child's age and dive in.
Supply links are honest suggestions to help you find materials — they're not paid/affiliate links. (Affiliate links may be added here in future, and will always be disclosed.)
New activities, lesson ideas and behind-the-scenes from the studio — for parents and young makers.
Finished a challenge or styled a new pair? Add your photo to our Live Wall to inspire the next young maker.
I have been navigating my health on a few fronts lately, including long covid lungs, so the studio moves at a gentle pace these days. I am working towards my fifteen hours a week with CBS at the Stirling branch, and in between you will find me outside whenever I can, feet on the riverbed of the Ngangkiparri, earthing and choosing not to feel blue. Every week I make as much as my body kindly allows, and everything here comes from that slow, hopeful making. Thank you for being here.