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Sustainable Rainbow Collage

Sustainable Rainbow Collage

Description:

Rainbows are a great way to teach children colour recognition, providing opportunities to learn more about primary and secondary colours and the colours of a rainbow. This activity helps to support hand eye coordination, fine motor skills, imagination, and creativity. It also helps to recognise and name colours, sorting and matching and working together.

Method:

To create a recycled rainbow collage, collect recyclable materials from around your home that could be used in the collage.
Supervise your child using a scissors to cut out pictures or shapes from the recycled materials.
Help them to arrange into the shape and colour sequence of a rainbow.

Promote learning by:

To help promote your children’s learning and development with this experience, you can ask questions about the colours they are choosing, where on the rainbow the colour should be positioned, what pictures have they cut out from the magazines, what shapes are they cutting the pictures out in, why have they chosen that picture or colour. You can further discuss about primary and secondary colours and how colours mix together to create new colours.

Extension:

This experience can be extended by asking children if they can match items from around their home and place on the coloured paper – for example matching red toys onto the red paper and counting how many red objects they can find around the house.

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Hi Georgina,

Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to the recruitment of Centre Directors and Educators to join the expanding Nido family.

With so many open roles in the sector at the moment, I think we should be talking about the differences that really sets Nido apart. From my own experience, they are not always obvious from the outside, but when you get to meet the Nido family you really feel it.

Leaving my previous employer, who I was with for over 10 years, was not an easy decision. I had interviews with a few different companies, before finding my home at Nido.

I remember walking out of that initial interview, literally with tears in my eyes, I knew I had finally found what I had been looking for.

As you mentioned, honesty and integrity are critical and a given, our Services, resources and environments speak for themselves, and candidates merely need to look at our website to understand how engaging and wonderful they are.

We really need to focus more on what a Centre Director and an Educator will experience at Nido;

Authenticity; At Nido they will get honesty with heart
Trust and understanding; At Nido you are treated from day one, as competent and capable
We have the opportunity to inspire Educators and children to reach their full potential and change their worlds for the better, this still delights me everyday
At Nido you can make your mark in the world and are given the respect and autonomy to do what you love and truly make a difference
Collaboration – we are one team, far and wide we inspire and challenge each other
Nido is a family, for me, I have the overwhelming sense of belonging at Nido, my people and my home, this is what drew me to Nido in the first place

I am continually driven by our purpose;

To provide our Educators with the training, environment, motivation, and empowerment to deliver exceeding quality education to children, partnering with families, and giving children a voice and the opportunity to lead wonderful fulfilling lives.

I love that we seek to make quality early education available to everyone, regardless of their economic position. That we focus more on suburban children and advocate for their rights, Nido is truly a movement and not one to join without knowing you will need to put your heart on the line every single day.

Mary Oliver asked “What will you do with your one wild and precious life”, I cannot think of anything more fulfilling than what I get to do every day at Nido.

Kind regards,
Danika x