What Can You Do While You’re Waiting?

A SEPTA bus shelter activation promoting creativity & mindfulness.

Brought to you by ArtPhilly & WHYY, with content by Liz Bail & Emily Schreiner

A colorful, festive board game titled 'While You're Waiting Philly Color Hunt' featuring a rainbow and various color zones. The game encourages finding objects matching each color, with examples like a yellow sun, a green patch of grass, a purple toy, and a blue water bottle. Surrounding the game are confetti, stars, and decorative elements, with instructions and fun references to local Philly landmarks and community activities.
A pigeon in flight against a plain white background, showing its wings spread wide.
Multiple golden stars scattered across a gradient background.

Located across 16 bus stops in center city, Philadelphia.

Orange fuzzy toy with a large plastic googly eye in the center.

Philly Color Hunt

matching colors of the rainbow to iconic (& non-trademarked) Philly landmarks, buzzwords, and sightings.

Colorful decorated illustration of the Philadelphia City Hall with guide prompts for a creative art activity, including suggestions to look up architectural details, search for sculptures and patterns, count columns and arches, and observe lines and shapes, with playful clouds, birds, and confetti accents.
Three crayons colored yellow, blue, and red placed on a multicolored background.

Look Up!

Trace the architectural details of city hall, and admire the many statues that adorn its tallest towers.

A colorful event poster with confetti and star decorations, promoting mapping with movement through various activities. It features multiple lines of text with instructions for different actions, such as helping a boxer reach an art museum, leading an eagle to a linc, and helping a dancer find the academy of music, each accompanied by images of landmarks and symbols.
Statue of a male figure with athletic build, raising two fists, wearing shorts and sports shoes, mounted on a square pedestal.

Mapping with Movement

Help these Philadelphian icons make their way to their destinations all over the city.

A colorful bingo sheet titled 'While You're Waiting Bus Stop Bingo' with illustrations and spaces for spotting items such as someone playing music, a community helper, window box or plants, a flag, a map, a puddle, a mural, a skateboarder, a baby on a stroller, construction cone, kindess freebie, clouds, and various objects. The background features multicolored confetti, stars, and balloons surrounding the sheet.
A red watering can filled with white icing and decorated with multicolored sprinkles, with a white candle inserted into the icing.

Bus Stop Bingo

Find five common Philly street sightings in a row to win! Featuring quotes from participants of Art Philly’s youth art workshops.

A colorful illustrated poster encourages neighborhood signs while waiting, with various sign illustrations including directions, speed limits, local businesses, and ideas for signs to add, along with a section for notes and a brief history of Philadelphia.

Signs of the Times

Admire the different styles of road signage you can find in and around the streets of Philly, as well as some signs invented by ArtPhilly students.

Colorful flyer decorated with confetti and stars, promoting creative re-imagining and mindfulness activities for children, featuring illustrations of trash being transformed into creative objects, with text encouraging imaginative play and a QR code for more information.
A yellow wooden pencil with a pink eraser and a green metal ferrule, lying horizontally against a white background.

Reimagine… What Else Could It Be?

Train your brain to see beyond your own eyes by reimagining everyday objects as something totally new- featuring artowork by ArtPhilly students.

Colorful decorated bulletin board with confetti, hanging stars, and tips for practicing kindness such as complimenting people, cleaning up, and holding doors open, with a title about doing kind acts while waiting.

Kindness Quest

Follow the path and answer the prompts to receive your random act of kindness!

A colorful collage with drawings, photos, and text about the future of a street scene, featuring vintage photos, children's artwork, and imaginative ideas for 120 to 250 years from now, surrounded by multicolored confetti and star-shaped decorations.
Gold star-shaped confetti scattered on a white background.

Then & Now

Zoom in on historic images of the city’s busiest intersection from a century ago- featuring artwork from ArtPhilly students.

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