Grab your beanie and get your young people outdoors these winter holidays

IT is known that playing outside in winter offers children several benefits, including improved physical health through movement and fresh air and stronger immunity.

Play and outdoor skill development supports mental well-being and building resilience, while also encouraging creativity, problem-solving, social interaction and life skills.

Additionally, it fosters a deeper connection to nature and helps children appreciate seasonal changes in our local plants, animals and country.

The Anglesea Y offer several events across the holidays and beyond.

What is Forest Skills?

A day where young people, aged five and up, can create, build and play with our loose parts zone and bush area.

Outdoor play and skill development supports mental well-being and building resilience.

They can build a cubby, make a rope swing, build a block head sculpture, or a pallet fort, our flexible program allows young people to spend the day outdoors with guided theme-based activities and time for free and creative outdoor play.

Our site has an undercover area, an undercover and outdoor fire pit in addition to options for children to choose tents or a tarp shelter if needed.

Our young people need now more than ever a space to become independent, to take a chance and feel the thrill of a homemade swing, to assess risk dynamically when tree climbing and to feel the pride of using a new tool to create.

The program is based on Forest School philosophies and is delivered by empowering staff using play-work principles.

By participating in camps at the Anglesea Y, children have the opportunity to be independent and asses risk dynamically.

Each Kids Go Bush Holiday Session has a daily theme:

Tuesday, July 8 – Building and Construction – create structures and play spaces

Friday, July 11 – Survival Challenge – conquer natures challenges

Tuesday, July 15 – Bushcraft – Get hands on and creative in the wild.

Other Events at The Anglesea Y

Family Nature Play for early years ages and siblings with themed activities, our single sessions are a great introduction to our term-based Bush Playgroups which operate every day of the week or a fun way to connect in the bush.

School’s Out is a day for Primary School ages to try adventurous activities and will include at least two school camp activities – vertical climb, mountain bike, team challenge, bouldering, bush cooking, games, archery or the Giant Swing

The programs are child focused and allow ongoing, progressive development of real-life skills.

Bush Playgroup and Forest Skills Term Based programs with themes and facilitation of skill development and learning outcome, the programs are child focused and unscheduled timeframe throughout the day, allowing ongoing progressive development of real-life skills, learning by doing, and focuses on initiative, problem solving, creativity, communication and bushcraft skill development.

Being outside and active is good for our health and wellbeing, and most of all it’s fun. Join the team at the Y and fill your lungs with fresh air and enjoy the campfire vibes.

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