Painted Rocks : Find Hidden Rocks Near You

Painted rocks | Hidden Rocks | Where to find hidden rocks around Australia

It was on a trip to Manly, NSW that Sunshine discovered a hidden painted rock for the very first time. She now knows to regularly be on the hunt and has found handfuls of painted rocks around Australia. Getting our kids out in nature is always a good thing, and hidden rocks provide an incentive …

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Bush Shelter : How To Build a Survival Hut From Scratch

Bush Shelter : How To Build a Survival Hut From Scratch

In the mid 1980s, Woodend Primary School in central Victoria developed a program where Grade 4 students travelled to a ‘farm school’ for a semester. For those 6 months, the students were immersed in a rural curriculum where the day saw them tending to their plot within the vegetable garden, caring for the farm animals and …

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Australian PlantBank : A Living Laboratory to Explore with Kids

Australian PlantBank : A Living Laboratory to Explore with Kids

Reading The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert was all it took to convince me that I needed to pay more attention to the plants around me, even moss. When I discovered the existence of the Australian PlantBank I knew I had to visit, even more so when I realised that it had partnered with Kew …

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Curating Nature: Investigating Our Environment Through Collecting

Curating Nature: Investigating Our Environment Through Collecting

Collectors. I think that we are all one at some point in our lives. There’s something exciting in searching for pieces to add to a growing collection or launching a hunt for a rare piece that you think will establish your collection as something more than just a hobby piece. By accident, my children and …

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