Community Stories
Stories, memories and everyday moments shared by families, volunteers and the wider Spielwelt community.
These posts help show the people, relationships and traditions that make Spielwelt feel lived-in and connected over time.
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Sand Prints
The children and parents at our popular Spiel und Spass playgroup were very busy last week creating beautiful sand prints to keep forever. They mixed up some sand clay, patted it flat, then decorated it with foot or hand prints and beautiful shells, glass beads and other treasures. Here’s how to make Meike’s Marvelous Sand…
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Parent Power Over The Years
Ever wonder what the Turner Scout Hall looked like a few years ago? And what magical things happen at working bees each year? The hall has been transformed over the years by the input and vision of the committee and parents. We’ve had ACT government grant help a few times as well to purchase capital…
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Nikolaus at GAP in 2020
Der Nikolaus war da! The children had a really lovely visit from Nikolaus this week and since parents couldn’t attend this year, I thought I’d share this blog with you. The day before our visit from Nikolaus, we baked and decorated some wonderful Christmas cookies, ready for him. With the aroma of our baking still lingering…
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Giant Bubbles
Our Pfadfinder Joey scouts enjoyed making some giant bubbles, using special bubble mixture and bubble wands they made themselves. Our cubs wanted to join in at the end too, and so they cleverly fashioned makeshift bubble wands out of loops of long grass. There are two giant bubble mixture recipes below. For both recipes it…
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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 organised a cub session to make Alfresco Apple Bird Cafes. The recipe is simple and…
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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 walked with our lanterns and sang the traditional German lantern walk songs we learned at…
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Wiradjuri Echoes Delight Us Again
Duncan and Jacita of Wiradjuri Echoes aboriginal education group always give us such an energetic and powerful presentation. We learn about artefacts, we laugh at Duncan’s funny jokes, we sing Wiradjuri songs with Jacita to Duncan’s traditional music, we get to practice saying Wiradjuri words, we hear the rainbow snake creation story while Duncan draws…
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We love animals
GAP children met Louie the dog, asked plenty of questions and enjoyed a warm, playful learning experience together.
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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 flowers. The GAP children got in on the action too, and planted a few water…
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Milk Carton Pizza Ovens
The Pfadfinder Joeys had a rather spectacular evening recently, making milk cartons in pizza ovens. First they made their dinner by rolling their pizza ingredients into a wholewheat wrap. This in turn was sealed up in silver tin foil. The tin foil dinner was then popped into an empty one-litre cardboard milk carton. We had…