The City of Bunbury in collaboration with the Greater Bunbury Early Years Network (GBEN) and Nature Play WA will be bringing a fun family-friendly event to Bunbury on Saturday 18 May. Nature Play in the Park has been developed in alignment with the Draft Bunbury-Geographe Early Years Strategy, and aims to promote health and wellbeing […]
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Download and print your Scavenger Hunt Checklist before your trip to Karridale! Karridale Cottages has recently partnered with Nature Play WA to create a Nature Scavenger Hunt in our bushland. The Scavenger Hunt has been specially designed to get the whole family out in nature and exploring during their stay. Read the full story at Karridale Cottages
On Focus with Jessica Strutt Do you monitor your screen time? With screen-based technologies completely embedded in our global culture and daily life it’s now practically inescapable. Many of the devices are with us all the time, even by our side as we sleep. It’s one thing to try and keep check on our own
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Nature Play WA hosted a world-leading neurotherapist to discuss the impacts of gaming and screen time. Royal dad-to-be Prince Harry last week added his voice to the growing movement calling for further scrutiny of the gaming industry amid concerns about addiction in adults and children. Speaking at a YMCA event in London, The Duke of
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By Rebecca Carmody The school year is barely three weeks in, but already the organisation representing primary school principals in WA has a message for parents — stop dropping your children off early. … Nature Play WA, which aims to increase the amount of time children spend in unstructured play outdoors and in nature, said it
The Nature Play WA team have compiled a list of Christmas craft projects that families can have a crack at this December. The lead-up to Christmas can often feel more stressful than is necessary. There are presents to hunt down, cards to write, seemingly endless end-of-year events, and perpetual planning for Christmas Day. Add a
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With the overwhelming options of toys and gadgets replete with requisite bells and whistles on sale for Christmas, it’s sometimes hard to find simple, economical gifts that children will cherish and use through the whole year, once the Christmas season (and the initial excitement of something new) has passed. With this in mind, the team at
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by Regina Titelius WA kids aged two to five-years-old are most at risk of screen-time overexposure, a new snapshot of the health and lifestyle of the State’s children shows. The WA Department of Health report shows 75 per cent of kids aged between two and five had more than the recommended one hour of “leisure”
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by Claire Tyrrell WA parents and experts have pushed back against a proposed ban on monkey bars, saying the benefits of getting outside far outweigh the risks. Kidsafe WA figures reveal hospital admissions from playground injuries doubled in the eight years to 2013-14 and the organisation says this upward trend is continuing. Last month, University
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by Josh Zimmerman Three-quarters of Perth playgrounds do not have cancer-preventing shade structures installed, with many councils instead relying on a smattering of trees to provide protection — or nothing at all. Of the 24 metropolitan councils that responded to a survey by The Sunday Times, only five had installed shade structures at more than half
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