Get the kids out of the house these holidays and fuel their passion for nature with fun activities at Western Sydney’s favourite family destination, the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan.
Children will love the variety of outdoor and science inspired programs that teach useful skills, from team building, to problem solving to creative thinking!
Holiday highlights include:
#1: Park Detectives (Monday 4 July): Become a crime scene investigator! This forensic science workshop is perfect for super-sleuths who enjoy a little drama. Following clues and overcoming obstacles, kids aged 7-14 will get to solve a real mystery!
#2: Gross and Gory Workshop (Monday 4 July): Explore all things creepy and gooey in the name of studying the human body: think fake snot, vile vomit bombs, and fake wounds. Not for the faint hearted, but it is so much fun!
#3: Exploring Science Day (Tuesday 5 July): Kids with a creative streak and young scientists will love this hands-on day that is all about light, sound, movement, energy changes, air pressure and using science toys to conduct experiments.
#4: ABG Bush Rangers (Thursday 7 July, Thu 14 July): Children will enjoy a day of wildlife, bushcrafts, outdoor challenges and free play in the great outdoors of the Garden. All programs are led by experienced staff who specialise in introducing nature and the outdoors to school-aged children in a safe and fun way.
#5: Doomsday Science Workshop (Monday 11 July): Kids will explore the science of survival through this workshop which looks at disasters from human and natural perspectives and teaches skills to survive! Children will make generators, water filters and learn codes for times of crisis.
#6: Create a Buzz (Tuesday 12 July): How does electricity work? What is static electricity? Kids with a creative streak or an interest in science will delight in learning about resistors, diodes and motors and putting them together to make circuits that do cool things!
For more great things to see and do at the Australian Botanic Garden visit their website here.
