Ignite your child’s creativity and love of nature through art, craft and storytelling with our Mini Beasts Workshop. Located at the popular Ceres Environment Park in Melbourne’s Brunswick East, we’ll be set up in the African village.

The children will create their own minibeasts and bug hotels using natural/recycled materials such as gum nuts, banksia, pine cones, cardboard, sticks, gum leaves and clay. Children will learn how to use real tools and may even develop a story based on themes found in nature.

There will be a variety of ‘projects’ on offer to suit children of all ages and abilities. The natural and recycled materials will allow each child to use their creativity and imagination in building their minibeasts and bug hotels and they can create as many as they like during the session.

Our workshop facilitator, Ashlee is a qualified and experienced, early childhood educator who has been working as a wilderness camp leader and as a theatre puppet maker for children for nearly 10 years. She has a passion for connecting children to nature and does so through creative activities, stories and games.

*Parents can stay or leave their children (over 6 years only) and we have a full day attendance option as well with a woodworking forest school workshop following this one.

Ages: 3 – 12 years