Category Keen to be Green

Being Kind to Birds and Possums

Our Pfadfinder Cubs enjoyed another great evening organised by Venturer Scout Amelia. One week, Amelia helped the cubs to make delicious and rainbow coloured unicorn fudge. She is passionate about the environment and caring for animals, so this week she…

GAP Lantern Walk

The GAP children enjoyed creating their own lanterns this year, out of recycled materials and sticks from the park. We added a tea light candle and some ribbon, and took them out in the park to test them out. We…

Our Own Floriade

Organisations across Canberra were invited to host a little bit of Floriade in their own communities in 2020. Our venturer scouts had recently designed, created and installed window boxes for us, so we had the perfect spot for some Spring…

Whole Day at the Arboretum

At the GAP, we absolutely love the arboretum and our favourite guide, Heather. This year we decided to stay a whole day there, so we had six glorious hours amongst the trees, in the sunshine and fresh air. We had…

We love the Arboretum.

We love the Arboretum so much, we have been a couple of times this year. We even helped launch their new network of trails and discovered there is more to the Arboretum than the fabulous acorn playground. We scrambled over…

Oktoberfest is coming!

“November is the new October” for our Oktoberfest. We will have all the usual fun, music and great food… together with better weather, we hope. Families and Friends of Spielwelt and the German language are invited to our Oktoberfest. Turner…

The joys of volunteering

We really appreciate our volunteers at Spielwelt. Our parents (and of course the children) are what make our community so wonderful. While the organisation certainly benefits from volunteers, it would seem that the volunteers benefit themselves. For example: Each term,…