To assist educators in Melbourne and surrounds, to implement a sustainability educational incursion program into their centre, that is:
Cost-effective
Low maintenance
Sustainable
Meeting the framework requirements for sustainability and life cycle.
Programs available for all age groups
Please contact us for centres outside of Melbourne for more information.
Introducing straw bale gardening, worm farming and the Reduce, Reuse Recycle ethos, we can provide early childhood service providers with an engaging and educational incursion experience for the children and educators, across all age groups.
Our intention is to assist educators by providing them with the tools, method and support to meet their intended outcomes. While delivering a creative, energetic and educational incursion experience for the children that is ongoing once the incursion is complete.
Our sustainability programs are designed to provide a complete and simple solution to assist educators with a successful outcome, with props and language that is age appropriate for the group engaging.
A 1-hour hands-on experience for the toddler group that will give the children a real-life food production connection.
A 1-hour hands-on experience for the toddler group that will give the children a real-life food production connection. Activities include picking lettuce, spring onion, beetroots and carrots from a mini garden bed, allowing the children the opportunity to see, touch and experience this first-hand makes an enormous impact.
Other engaging activities include meeting the BaleGrow worm farm, a small introduction to recycling easily identifiable items in the home. Also building on the food production connection. The children will participate in activities identifying common farm animals and the food they produce.
The room will be divided into small groups of 4 – 5 for a visit to the Toddler Patch where they will find a scene full of homemade pops, books, dirt and much more. The little tots will also be taking home a small gift bag to start their very own mini food cup at home.
Included in the session:
(only available with another program booking)
Ideal for those wanting to support children’s learning with topics such as animals, farming, sustainability, gardening and learning through storytelling.
A 45-minute interactive and energetic presentation with an Old McDonald had a farm theme. This program is an introduction to sustainably and gardening through singing, storytelling and hands-on learning.
Up-cycled, hand-crafted props made entirely from recycled materials are a large part of the presentation. They are colourful, engaging and the children will love being emersed a version of this all-time classic. The presentation of the story and the final outcome of the session will be something that the educators and children have never seen before
Included in the session:
Additional travel charges will apply 30km outside of Somerville
This is perfect to keep the children engaged in a meaningful way, learning about the elements and providing opportunities for hands-on creative learning.
Let’s sing to the wind, dance to the rain and dream through the sun. We will explore weather elements through music, movement and craft using resource-recovered materials. Each child will practice using their fine and gross motor skills and identify materials recovered from home to turn into something new. Each child will participate in the making of an individual sun catcher to keep for display and then to be taken home at a later date.
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This project has a big visual impact in and around your play space.
Hands-on garden building with recovered car tyres (3). I will bring all the materials for the group to build an instant garden bed.
Topics will cover
The children will prepare the garden beds for planting herbs, flowers and bugs in the area. Each small group will build a bug hotel in the yard to encourage care for our outside environment.
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Children use paper, a common classroom material, to engage in a sensory project.
The program is a fun, hands-on sensory project for children. The activity includes a short mat session re-enforcing the idea of the reduce re-use and recycle ethos and the household items that can be used in the process. Activities include identifying the items for DIY paper making, tearing up used paper, breaking down the paper in a paper slurry, assisting in using a mould and
deckle, patting dry and handling paper once complete.
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A 1-hour presentation that is full of energy and new hands-on learning for everyone. This program is based on the important ‘Reduce, Reuse & Recycle’ ethos. This program also comes with educator support.
Here we will introduce the children to the concept of the important role worms play in plant health.
We will be spending time on the mat learning all about fun worm facts. As a group, we will build a worm farm with the ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ ethos as a priority. The children will get to keep this worm farm in their room or outside.
Included in this session:
Program based on 25 children
Additional travel charges will apply 30km outside of Somerville
Ideal tool for learning about sustainable growing. Build an instant straw bale garden as part of the experience that you can keep and enjoy over the next 6-8 months
An interactive 1.5-hour educational incursion including mat time and planting out 3 pre-prepared BaleGrow gardens.
The first 30 minutes will be full of props such as different methods of sustainable gardening and the unveiling of a well-established straw bale garden. Children will be touching wheat grain, loose and still on the stem.
The next 40 minutes will be outside. The first 10 minutes will be with the whole group chatting about what plants we are planting and the benefits of growing our own food. Groups will be then split into 5-6 children to plant in their new straw bale garden.
The last 20 minutes will be gathering children back on the mat, re-capping what we have achieved and what the group is going to have to do to help look after the garden. What the garden may produce over the year and why should we eat healthy food.
Included in this session:
Program based on 25 children
Additional travel charges will apply 30km outside of Somerville
Balegrow is so excited to be the winner of the EEV Environment Education Awards – Community Educator.
