Sea of Light and Neon Canvas at ILA Playground – Fantastic self-guided digital art activities that are suitable for all ages – from babies to adults!
Review by Claire Davill
Patch Theatre and Realities Extended have come together to provide two activities for families during the 2025 summer school holidays. This is a great opportunity to beat the heat and spend some time in the cool indoors creating art.
Sea of Light involves using a UV light brush to draw on the floor – your creations will slowly fade, allowing for more art in it’s place. The sea includes stencil props such as boats, turtles and mazes, and a large ship to push around. However, what you can create is only limited by your imagination – kids were tracing their hands, feet, and even whole body silhouettes.
A large screen on the wall shows you a top-down view of the creations, and the simple light brushes and use of the floor as the digital canvas means even the youngest children can enjoy creating – and adults will have a ball as well. Everyone receives their own brush, and you’ll have about 25 minutes to create art at your own pace.
Following the Sea of Light experience, you’ll be guided into a second room for the Neon Canvas. Each family is given a remote controller to share, with a button to cycle through different colours and a button to paint. Point the remote at the huge screen, and start colouring in a huge underwater canvas. There’s a shipwreck, dolphin, coral reef and starfish to colour, as well as a title screen where you can colour in the letters. Every ten minutes a wave will wash away the colour and you can start again.
Very young children may have difficulty coordinating the buttons on the remote at first, but they’ll soon get the hang of it. What starts out as a simple “blackboard” with outlines ends up as a riot of colour in a collaborative artistic effort.
You’ll have 25 minutes in this room as well.
Toilets are available just outside both rooms and the ILA cafe is open, serving coffee, drinks, snacks and light meals.
Note that you will need to remove your shoes before the experience. There are benches to sit on and cubbies to put your shoes in.
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