OSHC Workshops
1. Seed Surprise Workshop
Discover the lifecycle of plants, pollination, seed harvesting and guerilla gardening. Each student will make seed surprises using native Australian seeds, and can roll them into any shape they like, or use our flower moulds to shape them. Lastly, they can decorate their own jar to take them home in!
Pricing: Starting from $400 for up to 20 participants then $16 extra per participant, plus travel.
Timing: Approximately 1 hour for 25 participants
2. Bug Hotel Workshop
Children will learn about insects, their habitats, pollination and more! They’ll learn that insects use a bug hotel for three reasons, including hibernation. The students will each get to decorate and fill our hand-made, FSC-certified Australian pine wood bug hotels with bamboo and straws, which provide a safe place for solitary bees and other pollinators. We can also install a medium-sized, wooden bug hotel for you + beneficial flower seeds for an extra $50.
Pricing: Starting from $500 for up to 20 participants then $20 extra per participant, plus travel.
Timing: Approximately 1 hour for 25 participants.
3. Wiggly Worms Workshop
Learn everything there is to know about worms, hold a worm, and make a take-home miniature worm farm (wormery)
with 3 worms per student, and layers of rocks, sand, soil and paper. They’ll also learn about the difference between
worms and composting and how this changes materials over time through decomposition and biological weathering.
Optionally, we can install a functioning worm farm for your school or classroom, which includes 1000 worms and we’ll
teach you how to care for it for an extra $165.
Pricing: Starting from $400 for up to 20 participants then $16 extra per participant, plus travel.
Timing: Approximately 1 hour for 25 participants.
4. Plant and Sip Workshop
Children will learn the basics of photosynthesis, plant survival, native vs invasive plants and the soil type that their plant prefers. Then they’ll decorate terracotta pots with paint pens, stickers and themed decorations, pot it with a native plant, and make their own plant care guide tag so they know how to look after their plant. The workshop includes a drink for each child, with the choice of iced tea, juice or Waterfords fruit-flavoured mineral water.
Pricing: Starting from $500 for up to 20 participants then $20 extra per participant, plus travel.
Timing: Approximately 1 hour for 25 participants.
5. Enclosed Terrarium Building Workshop
This workshop is more complicated, but children will learn how to layer their own self-sustaining terrarium, design it with plants of their choosing and decorate it with rocks, sand and a mini figurine. They’ll learn about the water cycle and how water is recycled in their terrarium, how to care for plants and how to look after their new micro-ecosystem. Their terrarium can also live forever without any extra water if they make it correctly too!
Pricing: Starting from $450 for up to 20 participants then $18 extra per participant, plus travel.
Timing: Approximately 1 hour for 25 participants.
6. Desert Terrarium Workshop
In this workshop, students learn about succulents, what they need to survive, and what adaptations they have to cope during droughts. Then we’ll demonstrate exactly how to get baby succulent pups for free through propagation. Next, we'll move onto creating and layering the terrariums, with each participant able to choose which succulent they want (we have a native succulent to chose from too)!
Pricing: Starting from $450 for up to 20 participants then $18 extra per participant.
Timing: Approximately 1 hour for 25 participants.
7. Incredible Stick Insect Workshop
Students will learn all about stick insects, how they can care for them and why deforestation is impacting their habitat. They will get to hold a spiny leaf insect while inspecting it with their own magnifying glass they get to keep. Lastly, they’ll make their own stick insect with craft and natural materials. Optionally, we can set you up a stick insect cage with 2 stick insects to keep for an additional $115.
Pricing: Starting from $450 for up to 20 participants then $18 extra per participant, plus travel.
Timing: Approximately 1 hour for 25 participants.
8. Christmas Wreath Workshop
In this Christmas Wreath making workshop we only use native Australian plants, so in the spirit of an Australian Christmas we’ll teach students about native vs exotic vs invasive plants and why this matters. We’ll also explain the basics of floristry, and then the steps on how to make a wreath using native plants and flowers, gumnuts, wooden pieces which you can decorate, as well as twine, wire and ribbon!
Pricing: Starting from $550 for up to 20 participants then $22 extra per participant.
Timing: Approximately 1 hour for 25 participants.
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