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Nature Shake Schools Event

Nature Shake is back on Friday 5 September from 10am to 2pm!

Join us at the Wollongong Botanic Garden for Nature Shake, a schools environmental education event aimed at primary and special education students.

The program will offer a variety of fun, hand-on nature-based activities delivered by local organisations. Where students and teachers can learn about their local environment and sustainability in a festival-style atmosphere.

During the day students can enjoy:

  • Bark Canoe Making with Gumarraa
  • Budding Bookworms (storytime) with the Friends of Wollongong Botanic Garden
  • Creek-line Critters with Green Connect
  • Clean-up activities and games with Rise n' Shine
  • Dingo Dog Weaving with Amethyst Downing
  • Insect Investigators with University of Wollongong's Early Start
  • Loose Parts Play with Junkyard Rascals
  • Match the Feather Game with Illawarra Birders
  • Native Bee display with Native Bees
  • Nature activities with Guardians of the Grassy Woodlands
  • Nature playtime with Folkplay
  • Nature Shake Silent Disco with Healthy Cities
  • Poem Forest writing activities with Red Room Poetry
  • Rainforest activities with Rainforest Wonders
  • Tree Drawing Workshop with Janine Bailey of Art of Trees.

Bookings for this event is now open. $5 per student.

Book your class by emailing the Botanic Garden.