Traipsing Through Trees: Terrific Treehouses

Traipsing Through Trees: Terrific Treehouses

Activity 5 of 7 in this unit

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Activity summary

At this activity station children work together to create a connected treehouse play area. This station is one of six in our Traipsing through Trees series that are perfect for setting up for drop-off time or after lunch to scaffold child-centred exploration and learning.

Activity type

  • Imagination

Activity guides and printables

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Activity Instructions
Pictures of Treehouses
Traipsing Through Trees: Educator Resource

Activity details

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EYLF Learning Outcomes

Outcome 4.3: Children are confident and involved learners - Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.

Skills: Science

Resources Required

  • Large cardboard boxes (big enough to fit a child or two inside!)
  • Other cardboard materials such as tubes, rolls, sheets, small boxes, etc
  • Paper in forest colours (greens, browns, beige, black)
  • Leaves (paper or real leaves)
  • Tape (masking or sticky)
  • Pictures of treehouses Template
  • Tree-dwelling soft toys! (think birds, possums, bats, lizards, koalas etc).

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This is an original cool.org activity.

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