At Mulligrubs Middlemount Playgroup, we are about enabling young people to build friendships and develop social skills in a safe and inclusive setting. The right to play, the right to freedom of expression, and the right to education and holistic development are all rights that our playgroup actively promotes each week.
So, in support of Children�s Rights Week and dress-up month at Play Matters Australia, we are planning on holding multiple dress-up days that will focus on supporting children, aged from birth to five years with their well-being and healthy development, while also promoting our playgroup to new families and connecting with other community services in our area.
At each event, be it the Mulligrubs Cup, Trick or Treat Event or our end-of-the-month Dress-Up Gala we plan to offer family-friendly activities such as arts and crafts, group games, story times, music, and dance sessions. To name a few.

At Benaraby Playgroup we are all about enabling our young people the chance to build friendships and develop social skills in a safe and inclusive setting. The right to play, the right to freedom of expression, and the right to education and holistic development are all rights that our playgroup actively promotes each week. This year in conjunction with the Benaraby State Schools ’Welcome to Prep Orientation Day’, our playgroup is going to run a playgroup open day.
In consultation with our regular playgroup member�s, we have discovered that the children currently have a strong interest in role/pretend play and hence our reason for choosing this year�s theme ’Dress Up Play’. Unfortunately, as our playgroup currently has very limited resources that allow children to dive deeply into this type of play. When role/pretend playing, children use their imaginations and it encourages them to share, take turns and cooperate, which contribute to developing their social skills. Imaginative play lets children explore different aspects of their personalities, allows them to process their own emotions and exposes them to roles others play within their community.
So that we can ensure all our children have the right to a standard of living that supports their wellbeing and healthy development, Benaraby Playgroup would love to purchase a range of new costumes, equipment that expands our children�s understand of the world around them and how to navigate it in a healthy way, as well as some quality storage to keep these resources in the best condition for as long as possible.

Happy Hearts Hub – Make Happy Hearts with Us!
Saturday, 15 October 2022
1pm – 4pm
Free to attend and participate. All materials supplied.
The Family Hub, 5 Maryborough Street, Bundaberg (Parking available at rear of property)
Register now to attend (bookings essential)

Make Happy Hearts with us! We will be crafting our way to 250 Hearts for Children’s Week. In preparation to celebrate Children’s Week [22 – 30 October 2022] we will be running a Make & Take Happy Hearts Crafting Workshop. Everyone is invited to join us to make Happy Hearts.

Happy Hearts are handmade heart shaped fabric ’gifts’, with a simple purpose of spreading joy. Joy to those who make them, those who gift them and those who receive them.

Please join us to help make 250 hearts which will be circulated across the Bundaberg region during Children’s Week to help spread joy and happiness. Drop in any time between 1pm and 4pm, make one heart or many. Bookings are essential. Register now to attend.

We’re excited to be holding a FREE event for local families with the aim of providing activities and an environment that encourages improvements to confidence, self-esteem and mental health in children and their families.

?Combining QLD Mental Health Week and Children’s Week this event is all about helping children and families gain more confidence in improving mental and physical health and well-being now and for the future.

This event and activities will be suitable for all families with young/school-aged children, not just those experiencing ASD/ND challenges.

Activities & Inclusions
– Confidence & Connection Class: for kids and adults to learn fun and physically-beneficial games and activities to do together
– Mindfulness Sensory Immersion: a mini Forest Therapy (Shinrin Yoku) activity to calm the body and mind and to gently engage and immerse the senses
– M.Y. B.E.S.T L.I.F.E: a special bucket list and goal setting activity for the whole family
– Free goodie bag for each family; with a variety of healthy products, educational resources and more

– Prize pack giveaway for one lucky family valued at (so far!) over $400! Including natural skincare products, child and family fun vouchers, massage vouchers, superfood products and more!

At Banana Playgroup, we are all about enabling our young people the chance to build friendships and develop social skills in a safe and inclusive setting. The right to play, the right to freedom of expression, and the right to education and holistic development are all rights that our playgroup actively promotes each week.
This year we would like to celebrate Children’s Rights Week by holding a Teddy Bears Hospital. During this event, the children will get opportunities to role-play the parts of doctors, nurses and allied health specialists and perform teddy check-ups, teddy x-rays, teddy physio sessions, teddy music therapy, teddy toothbrushing courses and much, much more. Each teddy attending will be able to have a top-to-toe check-up at the Banana Playgroup Teddy Bear Hospital.

Serendipity Journaling
An arts and crafts interactive activity designed to highlight mental health and wellbeing
Facilitated by artist, tutor, philanthropist, community icon, and mature-aged student, Bianca Qmech, BHMS Majoring in Counselling and Majoring in Human Services (Current UniSQ) ACA Student Member (non-practicing) Positive Blue Card Holder, Clear Police Check, Insurance by ALLIANZ, WH and S, and Best Practice Protocols will be evident.
Suitable for ages 8 years and older
Three dates to choose from!
Wednesday 19 October 2022 from 4 pm to 6 pm
Saturday 22 October 2022 from 11 am to 1 pm
Wednesday 26 October 2022 from 6 pm to 8 pm
Email qmechindustries@outlook.com to book.
No unaccompanied minors permitted
All attendees must be supervised by their responsible adult
Workplace Health and Safety, and Best Practice Procedures will be evident.
This event is facilitated by Bianca QMech.

Possum Club Playgroup has invited unique Australian musician Lizzie Young, who plays the violin, sings popular children’s songs and plays dress ups, to host a special LizzieLand Children’s Rights Celebration. Lizzie sings a special song entitled ’He’s a Cockatoo’ by Don Spenser. The chorus is:
“It�s a Cockatoo – and he will talk to you,
Or imitate any sound you want him to.
It�s a cockatoo – he�s Aussie through and through.
It�s a �Hello cocky – have a cracker�,
�Hello cocky – what�s the matter�.
It�s a sulphur crested cockatoo.”
In line with this years’ theme that ’All children have the right to a standard of living that supports their well-being and healthy development’, children will learn about the importance of conserving wildlife habitat whilst making cockatoo headbands to wear during the concert. The children will trace around their hands onto yellow cardboard to make the crest of the cockatoo and their parents will help them to attach the crest to white headbands.

In 2022, the focus of Platform 1225 will be “Truth, advocacy and systemic reform whilst acknowledging power imbalances and factors of social inequality”. Within this context we recognise that we are 232 years post the Colonisation of Australia, a foremost issue to address when talking about social inequality, truth and systemic reform. This will be highlighted through presentations at Platform 1225.  These are some of the issues that Platform 1225 2022 will address through the expert voices of presenters and young people.

A large scale community Imaginative Play event to celebrate Children’s week will be held at Play Matters Sunshine Coast Hub during Children’s week. A variety of imaginative play experiences to encourage young, creative minds to explore the world around them will be on offer. Partner organisations such as Libraries, Sunshine Sign and Sing Key Word Signing, Kath Dickson Family Day Care and North Coast Aboriginal Corporation will support the delivery of play experiences of all abilities. Families will have an opportunity to learn about the programs and services delivered at the Hub and other Sunshine Coast locations.

For the week of Children’s Week will be holding a playgroup each morning in 5 different locations across the geographical area we cover.
This will be a chance for Educators to come together with each other and the Coordination Unit staff to celebrate children. We will be giving each Educator the Children’s Week book and even if they can not make it to one of the celebrations they will receive the book and we will be doing a virtual reading so no one misses out.
Monday 24th – Ipswich – Queens Park
Tuesday 25th – Brisbane – Karawatha
Wednesday 26th – Russel Island
Thursday 27th – Toowoomba – Queens Park
Friday 28th – Gold Coast – (park to be advised)

To all our Gold Coast and afar past and present families of Little Scribblers/Bambini/Southport Kindergarten,
We are doing some digging about our long-standing kindy and would love it if you can all send through any photos/stories/videos/transformations from yours and your children’s time spent here at Nesbit Street Southport!
We plan to have a celebration day on Thursday October 27th (as part of Children’s Week) from 3:30pm for anyone to drop in and share your old stories. This will all then go into a time capsule on-site and hopefully opened up in 20 years time!
Please share our message as you never know, one of your friend’s friends may well have been a student, owner/occupier or teacher here once upon a time over the past 47 years!!!

Children’s Rights Queensland and 54 Reasons have teamed up to launch Children’s Week 2022 at Teralba Park. Join us for this free family fun day!

The event will feature:

• Community stalls and activities
• Music and entertainment
• Interactive displays
• Jumping castle
• Food stalls and coffee van
• Giveaways and prizes

Registration is required. Learn more here: https://childrensrightsqld.org.au/childrens-week-family-fun-day/

A Big Messy Play Date offers children opportunities to get messy (be messy), using materials which may not be available at home (due to the mess!!). We make available play dough, water, mud/clay, sand, rice and lots of natural materials, with some basic tools, so that children can have varied sensory experiences.

The messy play date offers families an opportunity to play together, exploring the various activities. Participation is open to all age groups.

Children’s participation in planning and delivery
The children of our volunteers are always involved in the toy library. On this occasion we ask them what messy play activities they might like for themselves and other kids. The children love helping set up activities and even help in packing up at the end of the session. Only children can be our toy and activities testers!

The project will consist of a weekend and after school series of creative workshops followed by a group exhibition event at the end of the week to celebrate the creativity, diversity, and expressive stories of those involved.

Each creative group workshop will involve art-making around the theme of ’creating well-being’ theme, for the participants to explore who they are, what they like about themselves, and the tools/skills/super powers and abilities they already have, who they have in their lives for the support networks, and then what worries them and ways to build their tools and resilience for their future selves and well-being.

The workshops will be facilitated by arts therapists and a youth worker, in a safe and supportive space to allow the children to explore who they are, what they have within and who they have around them, their rights to be who they are, and their sense of self and safety, to assist them to build ways to future proof their well-being.

Workshops will be held with age-appropriate content and in ways that the children can have choice and autonomy, express and explore themselves with materials that benefit their choice of expression and work. Creative artworks, poems, stories and other pieces made from the workshops will be exhibited at a small event at the end of the week and parents, caregivers and friends will be invited to attend, strengthening the connections they have with themselves, their rights and their community.

Jamboree Community Kindergarten is hosting a Family Fun Day to coincide with Children�s Week on 30 October 2022. The event will be open to the local community, for parents and children to enjoy a day of celebration with lots of fun activities. Activities are designed to support our children�s wellbeing and healthy development, with parents encouraged to join in the fun and dress up with their children. Activities will include: an animal petting zoo (barnyard babies), messy play and face painting. If we are successful with this grant, we would also like to organise a local children�s musician to provide live music on the day.
The Kindy children will be involved in making decorations for the Family Fun Day and will be encouraged to suggest games and activities for the event.