KIN Village
Kin Village is a ‘drop and leave’ program that allows children to freely explore their world and community with the support of nature educators and mentors. We say ‘YES’ to kids and provide them with opportunities to play, build nature awareness, and develop resilience. We do this through hut building, carpentry, nature exploration, community games, art, music and cooking.
About the Program
Kin Village is a ‘drop and leave’ program that allows children to freely explore their world and community with the support of nature educators and mentors. We say ‘YES’ to kids and provide them with opportunities to play, build nature awareness, and develop resilience. We do this through hut building, carpentry, nature exploration, community games, art, music and cooking.
Further Infomation
Our Nature Educators resource the space with objects and tools children might need to live out their adventure. They provide mentoring that observes and listens to children in order to guide suggestions, resources and skill building to help them achieve their goals. The program is designed to follow children’s natural energy levels throughout the day so that children work as a team without feeling forced or held back.
Objectives
At a ‘regular’ KIN Village day (although no two are ever identical) children have the opportunity to:
Use real tools to build, construct and tinker
Build rafts and explore the river foreshore (location dependent)
Learn how to light and tend fire using fire steels (season dependent)
Construct cubbies and huts
Connect with mentors and leaders
Explore nature, find animals, insects and plants
Play wilderness awareness games