Pre-K Kids In The Garden Program (Term 1 2026)

Pre-K Kids In The Garden Program (9 week term)

$140 per term first child, $120 per term each subsequent child from same family.

Age range- 2 years to 5 years

Mondays 10am - 11am

Class dates- 2nd Feb, 9th Feb,16th Feb, 23rd Feb, 2nd Mar, 9th Mar, 16th Mar, 23rd Mar, 30th Mar

Week 1

📅 Monday 2nd February

🚜 Little Farmers – Meet & Care for Our Friendly Animals

A beautiful first week where little ones meet the goats, chickens, ducks, quails, and bunnies. Children learn gentle hands-on care as they help with feeding, patting, and visiting each animal around the farm.

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Week 2

📅 Monday 9th February

🥔 Grow Your Own French Fries – Planting Our Autumn Potato Patch

Children will help prepare soft soil, explore real seed potatoes, and plant our autumn potato crop. A fun, sensory activity that connects digging, planting, and imagining future homegrown “french fries.”

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Week 3

📅 Monday 16th February

🌸 Bee-Friendly Blooms – Sow an Autumn Pollinator Garden

We’ll learn why bees and butterflies love flowers and help the garden grow. Children will sow their own patch of autumn flowers for pollinators and explore colours, scents, and petals.

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Week 4

📅 Monday 23rd February

🌱 Tiny Seeds, Big Dreams – Starting Winter Seedlings

Little gardeners will fill trays, sprinkle tiny seeds, and water gently as they start cool-season vegetables like broccoli and greens. A magical week exploring how small seeds grow into real food.

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Week 5

📅 Monday 2nd March

🧂 Winter Pantry Magic – Herbal Salt Making & Drying Garden Herbs

Children will touch, smell, and explore freshly picked herbs before helping make their own simple herbal salt mix. They’ll learn how herbs can be dried and saved for warming winter meals at home.

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Week 6

📅 Monday 9th March

🌾 The Secret Life Beneath Our Feet – Soil Creatures & Feeding the Garden

We’ll dig gently to discover worms, bugs, and tiny helpers that live under the soil. After exploring, children will help tidy the beds and give the soil a “special drink” of Seasol using little watering cans.

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Week 7

📅 Monday 16th March

🥬 Winter Garden Time – Planting Out Our Baby Seedlings

This week we plant the winter seedlings grown earlier in the term. Children will tuck each plant into the soil, water them, and learn how to help them grow strong through the cooler months.

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Week 8

📅 Monday 23rd March

🐞 Bug Explorers – Garden Bug Hunt & Take-Home Pollinator Planting

We’ll go on an exciting bug hunt to find helpful and not-so-helpful insects in the garden. Children will learn how bugs help plants grow and will sow a special pollinator-attracting seedling to take home.

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Week 9 (Final Week)

📅 Monday 30th March

🔥 Harvest & Cook by the Fire – Mini Pizzas in the Bush Kitchen

Our end-of-term celebration! Children will gather fresh toppings from the garden, prepare mini pizzas in the bush kitchen, and enjoy them together by the fire (weather permitting).

What to bring each lesson

Enclosed shoes (Gumboots are best)

• Water Bottle
• Morning tea
• Hat
• Gardening gloves (optional but recommended)

In case of wet weather-

We will have under cover wet weather activities organised

In case of severe weather-

Such as- Extreme heat, dangerous storms etc.. Classes may get canceled in the best interest of the health and safety of the children. If available, at the discretion of the facilitator, a makeup class may be offered in this instance.

How to book and pay-

Book and pay online on our Eventbrite page

Or

EFT payment to the following account-

Permaculture Hawkesbury Valley Inc

BSB: 633 000

Account: 167140045

Leave child's name and chosen program day as reference

We support NDIS

We can provide you with an invoice to claim your NDIS reimbursement. Please email us to request an invoice.

Email- permaculturehawkesburyvalley@gmail.com

The facilitator of this program holds an Advanced Diploma in Management, Diploma in Disability, Certificate 4 in Permaculture and Permaculture Teachers Certificate.

Our programs are designed to be full of activities to suit all abilities.