During the school holidays our working staff village is livened up with chatter and laughter of excited kids coming to visit family members for the holidays. Every morning during their stay, Teachers Omilia, Felicia and Emma round up youngsters, ranging from three to sixteen-years-old, for the holiday programme activities that are offered. The program starts off with fun activities like arts and crafts, mask making, bean growing, painting, colouring-in competitions and more.
Big smiles from Oscar during arts and crafts in our outdoors classroom.
Focus levels are high during our morning arts and crafts session.
For Nelson Mandela’s birthday all the kids coloured in this poster for a competition. The posters were all displayed around the school afterwards.
After that, hand-work makes way for an hour of iPad lessons, with digital learning at the heart of what we do at Londolozi. Then, with classroom activities done for the day, it’s time for game drive, where our young minds learn about the incredible eco-system that we are surrounded by at Londolozi.
Waiting for game drive.
The judges of the poster competition hard at work. It was a very tough decision but we found three winners in the end, one from each age group.
The team.
Ranger Nick about to take teacher Felicia and the kids out on game drive.
In between all of this there’s time for a few in-promptu fun activities like water balloon fights, three-legged races, musical competitions, and fluffy paint decorating. The day ends off with a movie after lunch and then some important family time.
If you mix powder paint and shaving cream you get fluffy paint. Teacher Felicia was covered with fluffy paint as a birthday present from the kids.
Thumbs up from Nomzamo!
With the school holidays coming up, we are already planning a fun itinerary to keep our young bush dwellers enthralled and engaged in fun learning and awareness about their beautiful family home at Londolozi.
Do you have any suggestions for fun children activities for our holiday programmes? Please share your suggestion in the comment section with us and we’ll see if we can implement it for the next one!
Written and Photographed by Emma Gird, Londolozi Cub’s Den Teacher.
What a wonderful time for the kids. Keep up the good work. Wish I was there with you all.
That was lovely! I’ve never heard of fluffy paint & will be telling my daughter for her 4 kids 🙂 Thank you
Thanks for sharing — it looks like the children are having so much fun!