Nature of Play

OCHRE PAINTING 🎨

An Indigenous inspired art experience using different ochre to create paints. Ochre is from natural pigments and minerals. Emu feathers and other indigenous resources were added to the table as inspiration.

WHAT DO THE WORMS EAT? 🪱

This fun sorting game from is great to understand what can go in a worm farm! We also looked through some of the pages of our new compost book from .kate so many great ideas, we’ve learnt a lot already!

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WALLACE THE WOMBAT

Do you have a preschool pet that visits all of the families? Wallace’s first adventure this year was to our house. We collected a shell and a cicada shell and decided to create a nature box so all the children can add their own nature finds when they go on an adventure with Wallace. These mascots are great for family involvement and to get to know more about families culture. I wonder what Wallace will get up to on his next adventure 💛

DINOSAUR DIG 🦖

A fun sensory experience using sand and dinosaur excavation cards from

Mila and Lily had a great time digging the dinosaurs out of the sand 💚

𝓂𝑒𝓇𝓇𝓎 𝒸𝒽𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓂𝒶𝓈 🎄

CHRISTMAS EVE 🎄

It’s that time to put out the reindeer food! Thanks for the magical food 🎅🏻

CRIKEY! 🐊

Mila loves the book series ‘little people big dreams’ especially the Steve Irwin book. Mila has a love for animals and loved playing with this set up. Making the different animal noises and talking about them.

“HELLO WORMIES” 🪱

Today we kept our worm farm cool by freezing a bottle of water and popping it into the worm farm. We also added a few more food scraps for the worms to eat 🌱

PLAYROOM 🐝

Our first play post in our new playroom! Of course it had to be a bee themed play experiences with our favourite bee resources from

We found a bee (sadly had died) in the garden and popped it in a glass jar so it was safe to examine. We paired it with our bee specimen and beehive blocks.

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OUT FIRST HARVEST 🥒

We picked our first cucumber out of our veggie garden at preschool. We cut it up and shared it around and lunch time. It was so delicious and crunchy! We’ve also got a few tomatoes and sugar snap peas beginning to grow 😍

CHRISTMAS BEETLES 🪲

Who has found Christmas beetles in their yard this year? We have found quite a few. We decided to look at one closer under Mila’s microscope! Did you know there’s 21 species of Christmas beetles found in NSW alone?

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OFF TO MAIL THE POST 📮

Today we had a fun visit to the local post office. We were lucky to learn about posting letters and seeing what happens with the packages. We finished off our visit with a babychinno and posting our letter 💌 Also how cute is post office dog Honey 😍🐶

CHRISTMAS WREATHS 🎄

How beautiful is this wreath that was made at preschool!? I love the detail and pattern of leaves 🍃

We had cardboard wreaths for art today, I collected a range of leaves from our garden for the children to decorate their wreath 💚

DEAR SANTA 🎅🏻

This afternoon Mila helped write her letter to Santa along with what Lily might want. Now to post it and see what Santa writes back ♥️

GARDENING DAY 🪴

Over the weekend Mila did a lot of gardening. We planted cucumber, parsley, basil and chilli seeds in the garden. We also got a caterpillar pot kit from the reject shop that included lettuce, cucumber and tomato seeds. Such a great buy for only $4. Mila is excited to watch her plants grow!

DEAR ZOO 🦁

This is always a go to book to read at home! I set up a dear zoo experience using the board and a few zoo animals.

NATURE CHRISTMAS TREES 🎄

Todays art experience was decorating Christmas trees with leaves and flowers from our backyard at preschool. The artworks turned out amazing!

GINGERBREAD COOKIES 🎄🎅🏻

This is our favourite Christmas treat to bake! We used a Christmas themed roller from to make the pattern 🤎

PUPS AND PRESCHOOL 🐶

This great article written by in pedagogy plus speaks about dogs in early childhood centres and how they can support childrens needs. Definitely check this article out if you can!

DAMPER STICKS 🔥

Yesterday afternoon we decided to make damper out on the fire. Mila loved mixing the ingredients together (we added cinnamon and coconut sugar) and cook it on the fire. We used Milas mud kitchen to get water and mix our damper together 🪵

Damper recipe from for families purchased from

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃🧙‍♀️👻💀

SMILING MIND

For the month of November I will be walking every day to raise money to support childrens mental health. I’ve used the smiling mind app for a while now and find it great to relax, especially the sleep meditations.

Make sure you take the time for yourself every day, even if it’s only for 10 minutes ♥️

Check out the link in my bio for more information and if you would like to donate

DAY FOR DANIEL ♥️

This special day organised by the is about teaching children how to be safe and people they can trust. ‘Only for me’ by is a great book for young children to learn about personal safety. It is a great resource to have at home and at an early childhood service. Teaching children about consent, speaking up if they feel unsafe and knowing people they can trust is vital, especially in these early years.

our lily girl is six months 🤍

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NATURE GHOSTS 👻

We are getting into the spooky season by creating ghosts out of nature finds 🍃

What spooky craft are you creating?

OCEAN BINGO 🐟🐠🦀

Our new favourite game is our ocean bingo from

Mila has learnt about a lot of new animals and is great at pointing out the animals she has. This has also become apart of our nighttime ritual as she loves a game before a book then bed.

These games have also been a hit at preschool. Children have learnt to take turns, the rules of the game and learning about new animals.

TOMATOES 🍅

At preschool we have a beautiful garden growing with herbs, strawberries and vegetables. Mila helped plant some tomato seeds to add to our garden 🪴

SNAILS 🐌

Yesterday at preschool a child spotted some snails in our back garden. This led to a great discussion about their shell, the slime it leaves behind and us researching what they eat and their lifecycle. The children also created amazing detailed artworks.

SOLAR SYSTEM 🌌

A perfect puzzle for Space week! Mila was able to problem solve to put the planets in the correct spot.

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