Spielwelt German Parents Association is a not for profit organisation running children’s programs in German in Canberra 
Spielwelt German Parents Association is a not for profit organisation running children’s programs in German in Canberra
The children have been busy at GAP preparing for Mothers’ Day, making beautiful bookmarks using items collected from nature. In one of our classes, the children started by glueing beautiful autumn leaves onto a big poster. The colourful group of leaves…
The Thursday/Friday GAP children were educated and entertained today by Duncan Smith OAM and his colleagues Lorraine and Jakida, from the Australian Aboriginal educational group, Wiradjuri Echoes. At first some of us were a bit shy, but we soon warmed…
The Monday/Tuesday GAP children had a fun visit from Mirjam recently. Mirjam comes from Switzerland, speaks German (and French), and is a talented musician and music teacher. She even used to be an assistant teacher at GAP, and kindly took…
The Thursday/Friday GAP class enjoyed an excursion to the Australian National Botanic Gardens. We savoured our morning tea out in the fresh air under some fragant gum trees, looking around in wonder at all the greenery, spotting birds, insects, plants…
The GAP children enjoyed a visit from the fire-fighters today. No, the fire-fighters were not there to extinguish the large number of candles on our Director’s birthday cake… but rather, our annual fire safety inspection was today. (You know you…
There is a German children’s song about colours that starts, “Gruen, gruen, gruen, sind alle meine Kleider; Gruen, gruen, gruen, ist alles was ich hab.” (You can enjoy hearing it by clicking here.) Well at Spielwelt, we love being green…
The Thursday/Friday GAP children particularly enjoyed celebrating German Easter traditions. The children have been busy over the last week or so, creating and decorating an Osterbaum (Easter tree), crafting their own colourful cardboard egg-cups, dying hard-boiled eggs all different colours,…