Howick Playcentre

Our nature day whanau did some pāpaka (crab) hunting 🦀 this week 🦀🐚☀️

A busy morning at the Howick playcentre supermarket for these mums with their babies! Lots of imaginative role play going on, we love to see it! 🤩🛒🛍️

A wonderfully sunny, autumnal morning at the beach for our nature day whanau! ☀️🍁🪏

Autumn leaves make perfect stamps! 🍁 🎨

Our nature day whanau soaking up all of the beautiful autumn sun ☀️

Outdoor kitchen with a view 🥣🍽️🫖

Yesterday Eithne from Project Jonah came to visit us to teach us about whales and dolphins. She taught us about the different parts of a whale and dolphin. Tamariki then went outside and found a stranded whale in our sandpit! Eithne helped us to save it by pouring water on it to keep it wet. 🐳🐬 Thank you so much Eithne from the Jonah Project for these exciting morning!

Our Thursday whanau have been enjoying baking this year, this week they made bread twists. 🥖🍅🧄🧀🫒😋 wonder what’s next on the menu!

🎏 こどもの日おめでとう! 🎏
Happy Japanese Children’s Day!
We celebrated by making our own koi fish windsock (Koinobori) to represent the strength of the koi that can swim up waterfalls, that children of that family will grow up strong. We hope our tamariki can grow up strong like koi fish too! We also decorated our own Kabuto hats! Thank you so much to our amazing kaiako for setting up these amazing activities. What a blessing it is to be surrounded by such rich culture 🎏

To celebrate May Day here at Howick Playcentre one of our wonderful kaiako made a maypole, we also decorated our own flower crowns. May Day is an old European festival to welcome in spring and summer 🌸🌷🌼 It was so fun dancing around the maypole with our tamariki