Camp Creative - Earth Explorers
This January, OzGREEN ran an Earth Explorers at Camp Creative with 18 young explorers who spent five immersive days creating, wandering, observing and building. What unfolded was a magical week blending art, science, sustainability and outdoor, nature-based learning.
Creativity flowed all week. Students experimented with watercolours, cyanotyping and hapa zome, upcycled egg cartons into bowls and created plantable seed cards from recycled paper. They wove coil baskets and string from dried lomandra. Fingers learned patience. Stories were shared.
The House Project became a week-long collaborative build. The students collected natural materials, added furniture, built gardens, crafted ladders and lampposts, and carefully constructed miniature worlds from found treasures.
We ventured out with a series of local excursions. At Arthur Keogh’s, we collected and sorted waterbugs and practiced nature journaling.
At Urunga Wetlands, we did a nature scavenger hunt, learnt about fox walking and stepped out of comfort zones with a blindfolded string walk.
At the Northbak Community Garden, we learnt about food plants and practiced our fox walking again through stealth games.
Earth Explorers nurtured creativity, sensory awareness and observation, confidence through making, belonging through shared experience and respect for materials and ecosystems.
To all our young Earth Explorers - thank you for your curiosity, your creativity and your willingness during this week!
In the fast-paced world that we live in, it was such an honour to deliver this workshop and spend a week with these young people, taking the time to notice, to build and to connect. 🌿
