- Hi everyone, Amanda here.
- And I'm Graeme.
- We're missing Kate, where's Kate?
- Kate's having a little day off,
but she'll be back soon.
- Yeah, well, beautiful day to have a day off.
Welcome to the National Museum of Australia.
- Okay, so what are we going do today, Amanda?
- Good questions, we've got our next fun at home.
What are we going do today, that's a good question.
- I thought we might make a time capsule.
- A time capsule?
- If you're keen for that?
- Awesome, I don't even know what a time capsule is.
- Well, let's go.
- Before we get started, Graeme,
we need to do some acknowledgements.
- Yeah, you're right.
We're located here in Canberra,
so we'd like to acknowledge
the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri peoples,
on whose land we now stand.
So feel free to join in at home with the actions.
It's quite easy.
Here is the ground which covers the land,
here is the sky which covers the land,
here are our hearts which look after the land.
- Welcome.
- Graeme, what time is it?
- It's time capsule time.
- Awesome!
But what is a time capsule?
- Well, a time capsule is something
you can use to put objects in
so you can remember them later in the future.
- So you could look at them again in a week's time?
- Could be a year's time, 10 years time.
- Ten year's time? - Whatever you like really.
- Hundred of years time,
and in fact you could almost say
the Museum's like one big giant time capsule.
- That's a really good example.
So we're going to make a tiny little museums of ourselves
and put them in jars today.
- I love that. I think you and Maeve
have been very busy at home, haven't you?
- Yeah, I'll show you what she made.
So here we are.
- I love the colour you've painted the outside.
- Yeah, I'm glad you noticed that.
The sparkles were my idea, I'm quite proud of that actually.
- And also, it kind of hides what's inside.
- Yeah, so it's a surprise later on
when you look at it in, you know, 10 years time
or whatever you like.
So she's got a little book here
with some things she's written for her future self.
- Ooh, I love that. - Look at that.
Alright so, she's got some drawings as well.
I'll just show you maybe one of them.
She quite likes drawing sharks,
so she's got a shark drawing.
- You could draw anything. You could draw you bedroom.
- Yeah, whatever you like.
Your favourite place, your favourite things.
She's got a little questionnaire
that you can find on our website.
- So if you want to have a look at that
you can make your own one of those.
So I'll put those there.
What else has she got?
So there's a few little objects.
So she's made a little doll here with a face mask,
because its during the coronavirus time.
- Because at the moment
we're all experiencing life a little bit different.
- Yeah.
- So you could actually record
what you're experience's been like over last few weeks.
- That's a good way to record things like that.
She's also put a little person on a bicycle.
Maeve has a blue mountain bike,
so that's for her to remember that bike.
- So if you don't want to put in your favourite object
and leave it locked away for 10 years,
you could take photo of it or draw it.
- That's a good idea too. Drawings look really lovely.
She's also got this heart-shaped rock
that her grandmother found.
That's kind of cute.
- That's nice remembering.
- And just a little wrist band that she made for herself.
So just simple little objects like that, basically.
- I think it would be really nice to have a photograph
of us today because we should make some in a minute.
Make our own time capsule of ourselves.
I've got a camera here Graeme.
Okay, this is recording who we are today
when we made our time capsule.
Ready, you gonna smile? - Okay.
Yeah.
- Okay, click.
Your turn.
- Alright, let's try and get a good frame.
Alright, here we go, click.
- Fantastic, so look around the house
to see if you've got some containers.
Some people actually bury their time capsules
under the ground
but it has to be in a very secure container.
One that doesn't let water in. - Yeah.
- But today, I'm going to make one
that I'm going to hide in the cupboard.
- Okay, cool.
- I've got a box
- I've got some making materials here as well.
- Yeah, I think I'll decorate the outside of my box
as well as writing things to go on the inside.
- That'll look great.
- I've also got a little bag
that I can actually hide some special treats in
like a very beautiful cat that my daughter knitted me.
- Oh, that's cool.
- It's very cute.
- Yeah.
- So guys, at home, look around the house.
See what describes you
and see what kind of a story of yourself
you want to put in your container.
We're going to continue making.
Bye everyone.
- See you soon.
- I think I'll use this bit of paper to decorate mine.
- Yep.