Earth Explorers: A Week of Adventure & Art
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 8 to 12 - Suitable for ALL skill levels
Venue is ST MARY’S PRIMARY SCHOOL
Course runs for 5 FULL-DAYS - Monday to Friday 9am until 4pm
This course has an extra materials cost of $20
This course has several excursions in and around Bellingen and unfortunately won’t be mobility aid accessible.
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
Get ready for five days of nature, creativity, and adventure!
This hands-on program for curious 8 to 12 year-olds is all about getting into nature, getting messy and having loads of fun with new friends.
We’ll explore rivers to uncover the secret world of waterbugs, build awesome shelters using natural materials and create stunning nature mandalas that celebrate the magic of our surroundings. There’ll be games, crafty challenges and excursions into nature to roam the great outdoors in beautiful Bellingen.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 8 to 12 - Suitable for ALL skill levels
Venue is ST MARY’S PRIMARY SCHOOL
Course runs for 5 FULL-DAYS - Monday to Friday 9am until 4pm
This course has an extra materials cost of $20
This course has several excursions in and around Bellingen and unfortunately won’t be mobility aid accessible.
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
Get ready for five days of nature, creativity, and adventure!
This hands-on program for curious 8 to 12 year-olds is all about getting into nature, getting messy and having loads of fun with new friends.
We’ll explore rivers to uncover the secret world of waterbugs, build awesome shelters using natural materials and create stunning nature mandalas that celebrate the magic of our surroundings. There’ll be games, crafty challenges and excursions into nature to roam the great outdoors in beautiful Bellingen.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 8 to 12 - Suitable for ALL skill levels
Venue is ST MARY’S PRIMARY SCHOOL
Course runs for 5 FULL-DAYS - Monday to Friday 9am until 4pm
This course has an extra materials cost of $20
This course has several excursions in and around Bellingen and unfortunately won’t be mobility aid accessible.
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
Get ready for five days of nature, creativity, and adventure!
This hands-on program for curious 8 to 12 year-olds is all about getting into nature, getting messy and having loads of fun with new friends.
We’ll explore rivers to uncover the secret world of waterbugs, build awesome shelters using natural materials and create stunning nature mandalas that celebrate the magic of our surroundings. There’ll be games, crafty challenges and excursions into nature to roam the great outdoors in beautiful Bellingen.
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YOUR COURSE TUTORS
Lily Kostka
Lily is an Event and Programs Coordinator at OzGREEN.
In this role, Lily works to create fun and educational events for young people that will inspire them to explore and nurture the environment around them. Driven to incite change, she loves working towards something rich in meaning and action.
Steven Denshire
Steve Denshire, an Indigenous man from the Saltwater area of Taree, lives in Valla NSW, is new to the area and hopes to have a positive impact in our community.
Steve has life experience as an emergency humanitarian working with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) in many of the worlds remote locations and is locally a residential construction expert and a social justice advocate. Steve's priorities his life and time in projects that facilitate Agape Love (unconditional love) to all living beings.
About OzGreen
OzGREEN is on a mission to create vibrant, sustainable and resilient regional communities.
We know that a healthy environment and connected communities are essential for this.
We deliver programs, events and resources to reduce waste, protect rivers, plant trees and increase wellbeing.
“My kids got such a kick out of exploring the microscopic bugs they found in our local river. The team at OzGreen did an amazing job facilitating this activity!”
“I’m completing this on behalf of my son. He has ADHD and challenging behaviours. I was so nervous about how he would go at Camp Creative but the facilitators were amazing. He had a great time. Classroom facilitators and also the overall facilitator Jaimie at St Marys. When he melted down/ran out of the classroom/etc, the facilitators treated him with care and kindness and the situation was able to be de-escalated and resolved quickly and he returned back to class. Amazing. Thank you so much.”
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You’ll make a nature artwork, a nature journal and explore cyanotyping, experiment with ochre and paperbark, and create a model house structure and garden made out of natural objects. This week is for anyone who loves crafting, playing, exploring and imagining!
Students will spend the majority of their time exploring outdoor environments and working with natural materials. Activities will be hands-on, creative and deeply connected to the landscape.
Students will make artefacts, clay ornaments, shelters, mandalas and other nature-inspired creations - but rather than taking them home, most of their work will be left in the bush as part of a temporary and respectful interaction with the natural world.
This approach encourages presence, play, and appreciation - focusing on the process of making, not just the outcome. However, the afternoons will see students working on some items that they will take home with them - some clay creations, a nature artwork, a nature journal and a model house structure and garden made out of natural objects.
Students will also create a giant, collective mandala to share with their parents at the end of the last day.
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Please bring the following on your first day of class:
Wear clothes that can get dirty
Closed in shoes
This class has an extra materials cost of $20, which is payable directly to the tutor.
Once you book your ticket, the tutor will be in touch to arrange payment.
Cost includes:
Air dry clay
Twine
String
Cyanotyping materials
Watercolour paper and paint
Materials to make nature journals
Board base for house/garden creation
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No experience required.
