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What is EPHEMERAL NATURE ART🌿🍂 and how it supports children's well-being and development?

Rita from Conscious Kids New Zealand

Tamariki at our programs are encouraged to use natural loose parts to create their own play, as a result, an explosion of creativity happened yesterday at the Western Springs session, featuring EPHEMERAL NATURE ART🌿🍂

EPHEMERAL ART is a work of art that only lasts for a short amount of time, perhaps occurs once, and cannot be embodied in any lasting object. It can be a sculpture, performance art, or a temporary design such as mandalas.

Creating art inspired by nature helps children express themselves, tune into the natural world, and also to express their own appreciation of nature. Nature art can also enhance nature connection in a child, as one recent study found.
The beauty of ephemeral nature art is that it can teach children that not everything we value has to be material. Not everything we create has to be taken home or even returned to. The process of making art is fulfilling enough to be the focus at times. Creating ephemeral art teaches kids about the impermanence of life and nature, as the most beautiful things such as a winterscape or a sunset aren’t permanent. More than an image seen with our eyes, ephemeral artwork is an actual moment in time.

#natureplay #consciouskidsnz #ckholidayprogrammes #learnthroughplay #realholidays #freeplaynz #letthemplay #nauteart #ephemeralartplay

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Poll: As a customer, what do you think about automation?

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If a zookeeper had 100 pairs of animals in her zoo, and two pairs of babies are born for each one of the original animals, then (sadly) 23 animals don’t survive, how many animals do you have left in total?

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4 days ago

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Stan from Mairangi Bay

Hello.
I am a pretty fit and healthy Senior made a mistake of retiring so.
Have been involved in the building supply industry for over 20;yrs, am very comfortable driving a fork hoist also organizing your warehouse, have a clean driving licence manual and automatic, would like if possible a part time role to help you.
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