Matisse · shopping list

What to buy — sourced & clickable

Everything for your first Sunday, planned for 4 children (confirmed), with real, clickable products. Two are Click & Collect orders, plus one fresh market run. Tap any product name to open it. Ticked items are already ordered.

2 pickupsSpotlight Mentone · Officeworks Elsternwick

+ 1 runflowers, produce, plates at a market/supermarket

≈ $270all in for Sunday (most of it reusable)

Collection is set: Spotlight to Mentone, Officeworks to Elsternwick — both must be collectable in time for Sunday. On prices: indicative AUD, confirm at checkout. Tags: Essential · Optional · Ordered ✓ done.

See the ideal set-up

Here's what you're building towards on the day — the warm scene families walk into, and a tidy plan of where everything goes. Picture it as you shop.

Illustration of the workshop scene: a communal kraft-covered table with paper laid out, a flower centrepiece, tool plates and a fruit bowl, three chairs pulled up, a Masters in the Making sign on the wall and a shelf of jars and fresh flowers

Top-down plan of the table: kraft cover, paper bar sorted by colour, tool plates with scissors glue and tape, a flower-and-fruit centrepiece, a workbook and pencil at each seat, and a side table of jars and flowers

No baskets or trays yet? Don't buy them if money's tight — paper plates and bowls are perfect for this. Use a plate at each cluster for glue sticks, a bowl for cut-out scraps, and a plate under each child's growing pile of shapes. They're cheap, on-theme (it's a paper workshop!), and stack away after.

Stop 1 · Ordered ✓

Spotlight — Mentone

Click & Collect · done

The Green Room Flower Vase Cylinder — ClearOrdered ✓

The take-home vessels — straight-sided glass so the paper collage sleeve slides over and the neck supports the stems. One per child + 2 spares.

$30

×6

Boxsweden Crystal Storage Container — size SOrdered ✓

Clear open-top tubs for fast pack-up — one for scissors, one for glue sticks, one for paper scraps. See-through, lidless, stackable.

$15

×3

Spotlight subtotal (ordered)$45

Stop 2

Officeworks — Elsternwick

paper, scissors, glue, kraft

Two swaps, so everything collects same-day: the Daler-Rowney cartridge pad and the Maped scissors were only available Tue 28 Jul, so they're replaced below with in-stock-today equivalents (Keji visual art diary + Studymate scissors).

Keji A4 Visual Art Diary — 120 PageEssential

The collage base (swapped in, A4). A4 panels make a vase around 15–20cm — right-sized for the small 12.7cm jar, where A3 would tower and flop. Each child makes two panels; two 120-page books give plenty + spares.

×2

Quill A4 Paper Bright Assorted — 250 PackEssential

The bright cutting paper for the cut-out shapes on top — 250 sheets, mirrors Matisse's painted-paper method.

$20

×1

Maped Deluxe Kidicut Safety Scissors 12cm + 1 left-handedEssential

Proper kids' safety scissors (swapped in) — 5 standard + 1 left-handed = 6 for 4 kids, all in stock to collect today.

$31

×6

Bostik Blu Stik 35g — 5 PackEssential

Glue sticks — three 5-packs = 15, one per child + plenty of spares.

~$30

×3 packs

PPS Kraft Paper Roll 900mm x 50m — BrownEssential

The table runner + scrap mat + still-life spine. One roll lasts many Sundays.

~$28

×1 roll

Scotch Double Sided Tape — 2 Pack + dispenserEssential

Backup for the glued side seam of the paper vase sleeve — quicker than glue for little hands.

~$14

×1

Officeworks subtotal$158.00

Stop 3

Market / supermarket

fresh — grab in person

Fresh flowersEssential

Covers the centre display and the 6 take-home vases. In-season + cheap right now: iris, natives (the orange leucospermum/pincushion), chrysanthemum daisies. Prahran Market or Coles Elsternwick.

~$60

display + 6 vases

Fruit & veg for the still-lifeEssential

Mandarins (citrus stacks), an orange capsicum, an eggplant, a cucumber or zucchini (bud vases), and a pack of bamboo skewers. See the still-life table guide.

~$17

+ skewers

Paper plates + wipes + pencilsEssential

Plates for glue/scraps at each cluster, wipes for sticky citrus hands, and pencils for drawing the vase outline on the back of the collage. (These were the only things left in the old Kmart cart — grab them here instead and skip Kmart.)

~$13

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Market subtotal≈ $90

Check your cupboard first

Have?Pencils — one per seat, for drawing the vase shape onto the collage
Have?A bucket or two + a jug — to hold the fresh flowers and top up the jars with water
Have?Wet wipes / cloths + a bin bag for scraps (or grab at the supermarket, ~$5)
Have?Scrap paper for the scissor warm-up (offcuts are perfect)
Have?Printer + a little tape for the signage (in the Room Setup kit)

All in for Sunday

Spotlight $45 (ordered) + Officeworks $158 + market ≈ $90

≈ $293

Most of it is reusable. The kraft roll, scissors, tape, vases and storage tubs serve every future Sunday — so from week two you’re mainly topping up paper, glue and fresh flowers (~$65 a week).

Morning-of setup checklist

Brown kraft runner rolled & taped down the table
Paper bar set out by colour, down the centre
Signage placed (hero sign + station cards)
Still-life spine built down the centre (skewered citrus, capsicum, eggplant, cucumber + trailing stems)
Glass cylinder vases laid out (one per child + spares)
Fresh flowers trimmed in a bucket + a jug of water
Workbook + pencil at each seat
Clear tubs filled: scissors, glue sticks, scraps
A scrap bowl + a shapes plate at each cluster
Two base sheets per seat (for the two collages)
Wet wipes + a cloth ready
Deck + video cued full-screen, sound tested
A finished example on display
Allergy / photo-permission list checked

Masters in the Making · shopping list · by La Vita Nova · South Yarra