As parents, it’s hard to watch our children struggle. We want to nurture resilience, protect them from discomfort and frustration, stepping in when they face challenges. It’s a natural instinct—to smooth the way and keep them safe from emotional or physical hardship. But are we holding them back from learning how to be resilient? We … Continue reading How to Nurture Resilience by Celebrating Your Child’s Struggles
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Top Tips for Ticks in Nature Play
A Parent's Guide to Ticks In Australia with a Bonus FREE Fact Sheet Meet Ixodes holocyclus. We love creatures, but this little bitty arachnid, commonly known as ticks, is not our favourite friend to meet when we play. Ticks generally spend their time hanging out in humid places like creeks, forests and bushy spots (so, … Continue reading Top Tips for Ticks in Nature Play
Oral language development through storytelling
he moment we are born, humans begin to learn through their senses and emotional connections. Oral storytelling continues this learning - tapping into our innate ability to make sense of the world through relationships with others.
What do you do when it rains? (and other frequently asked questions)
What do you do when it rains? Where do you sleep? Do you see snakes? Here’s a list of questions we are most commonly asked about our programs. We set your mind at ease by answering them all here.
The importance of handcrafts for brain development
Just as it is impossible for us to work without immersion in nature, handcrafting is one of our cornerstone practices at Birdwings Nature. The process and the product of handcrafting and creativity are part of who we are and how we relate to our world. It is part of how we move through our seasonal shifts with the children and how we celebrate the gift of childhood.
Fun with friends in forest school
We love our Birdwings Bush Club and Little Birdwings Forest Kindy because children can have a natural childhood, playing and having fun with friends in nature.
Birdwings Nature Retreat is forest school for grown ups.
Birdwings offers forest school for grown-ups in our nature connection retreats. Relax and reconnect in the rainforest.
Acknowledgement of Country
Birdwings borrows a name from the Richmond Birdwing Butterflies the children saw, counted, and now work to protect. This butterfly is native to the area and belongs here and we use its name as promise we have made to the land. We acknowledge this is Kombumerri land and offer our deep gratitude to the Ngarang-Wal Gold … Continue reading Acknowledgement of Country
A Butterfly, a Vine and a Wish
Writen by Narell Neville, 2017 In a Bush Kindy deep in the rainforest at the base of Mt Tamborine. A place where the endangered Richmond Birdwing Butterfly (Ornithoptera richmondia) is known to live. The butterfly lays its eggs on the vines (Pararistolochia praevenosa) and the caterpillars eat this vine. However both the vine and the … Continue reading A Butterfly, a Vine and a Wish