Makarewa Playcentre Explores the Senses – 18 November 2019
Walking through the orchard different coloured items in nature were discovered – the yellow flowers and yellow possum trap, pink flowers with a bumble bee, red poppy flowers, brown soil, grey clouds above us and lots of green everywhere! We followed the signs to the education centre and then noticed all the signs around the pond track, some marking trees and others marking different tracks. There was a tadpole and bugs in the pond nets and a leaf veined slug, slaters and a weta in the bug hotel. We saw the multi-coloured fuchsia flower with blue, yellow, pinky purple and green – just beautiful. We felt the prickly, smooth, rough, and hedgehog like plants and parts of plants. We saw Donna the nursery duck with 3 fluffy ducklings – 2 black and 1 yellow – very cute! We used our sense of smell all morning – bay leaves, fennel, tarata/lemonwood, stinkwood – with some smelling nice and others not so nice! We heard birds, cabbage tree leaves rattling, the wind and each other. A run around the maze, a break for morning tea, puzzle time and some potting up of kowhai seedlings all happened before the rain hit!
Bronwyn
Posted: 18 November 2019