The Imagination Cloud
Welcome to the new world of The Imagination Cloud a place where your Kinder kids can explore infinite possibilities through PLAY. We believe through play we can build each child’s needs of belonging, by drawing strengths through relationships within a culturally diverse community.
We believe in planting the seed of imagination that will germinate and sprout into many ideas and learning platforms that are child led, so that each child becomes an active participant in an inclusive world.
The Imagination Cloud is here to SHAKE up the formal Kindergarten incursion world, no more uniforms, no big words, no more seriousness. We are all about PLAY. All our incursions underpin the five learning outcomes in the Early Learning Years Framework, which identifies a shared vision for each child’s learning experience.
Our incursions foster intentional teaching experiences which support spontaneous child led learning that nurtures the curiosity, social, creative, emotional, spiritual, physical, cognitive, and linguistic aspects of learning through play.
With over 30 years of experience tucked up our magical wings in early childhood we have intricately woven all these wonderful attributes into fabulous new incursions that will develop and enhance each child’s individual agency that will be acknowledged, validated, and celebrated within a harmonious kindergarten environment.
Imagination Cloud Passports
At the start of your Imagination Cloud Incursion each child will receive an Imagination Cloud Passport. This will support each child’s learning experience by sticking pictures and materials into their passport. It will also extend and nurture their linguistic experience, by taking their passports home to show and discuss their experience with their family.
Three-Year-Old Kindergarten Incursions
Theme: Where Going on a Bear Hunt.
Duration: 1 hour & a pinch.
Magical Price: $500
Workshop capacity: Up to 30 kids
Aim: This workshop aims to develop and extend vocabulary, helps children to develop auditory memory skills. promote imaginative play and creativity, encourages little bodies to move through dance and rhythm, promotes environmental connections and experiments with materials to enhance their experience.
Side Sparkly Note: Before the incursion begins, we ask the educator to post a flyer into the children’s information pockets. Informing the parents to bring along their child’s favourite cuddly toy from home for the Bear hunt.
Description of workshop: Children are taken on an interactive vocal recount of the story called We Are Going on a Bear Hunt. Faery Bear Emma begins the workshop by visually telling the story and prompting the children to use their teddy bears or cuddly to interact with the story, through verbal and physical actions. After story time we pause to reflect as a group Faery Bear ask’s children open ended questions. What types of things do you think bears like to eat? Where do you think honey comes from? After reflection, we then introduce movement and dance. The Faery Bear has brought along a honey pot and children will cast spells to see what’s inside the honey pot. I.e., bee, bear, wind, grass, water, and flowers. Through movement and dance we experiment with our bodies to jazz music.
After our dancing we then procced outside to go on a bear hunt. Children are given a little treasure map which display a bear’s paw print, honey hive, flowers, and bees. Children are prompted to find all the items and place them in the honey pot.
To end the session, we all sit down in a big circle to reflect on the workshop. The faery Bear ends the workshop with a mindful meditation for grounding their buzzy chakras.
Theme: The Sparkle a Day Academy
Duration: 1 hour & a pinch.
Magical Price: $500
Workshop capacity: Up to 30 kids
Aim: This workshop aims to promote healthy hygiene practices by modelling to children how to brush the surface area of their teeth. promotes healthy lifestyles and good choices in nutrition, manipulate equipment and manage tools and encourages movement through dance and rhythm.
Description of workshop: Children are gathered to the welcoming circle. The Tooth Fairy introduces herself and ask’s children open ended questions about the Tooth Fairy and what types of things she might do. The Tooth Fairy invites the children to join the Sparkle A Day Academy and teaches them how to interactively brush their teeth with a magical toothbrush and a tooth template. Through movement and dance we experiment with our bodies to classical music and learn about good foods and bad foods. To further scaffold the experience children, create their very toothbrush timers.
To end the session, we sit down in the circle to reflect. Each child is presented with a super tooth cleaner graduation certificate and star brushing chart.
4-Year-Old Kindergarten Incursions
Theme: Mermaid Sustainable Silly Pants.
Duration: 1 hour & sea pinch
Magical Price: $550
Workshop capacity: Up to 30 kids
Aim: In this workshop our aim is to promote an understanding and connection to our environment and learn how to become a sustainable sea warrior.
Description: Mermaid super sustainable silly pants has been washed up in a forgettable sea current and can’t remember how to recycle rubbish. In this workshop the children will join Mermaid
Sustainable Pants in the sea circle and listen to her sea tales of the sea. The children will be encouraged to interactively vanish the rubbish from Mermaid Sustainable pants sea basket with a rhyming spell and learn what types of plastics can affect our sea environment. Through movement, dance, and sound we will discover the creatures of the sea with the use of percussion instruments.
Finally, children will create a recyclable sea necklace where they can carry and collect natures gifts.
To end the session, we sit in a sea circle and reflect on things we can do to sustainably care for our environment. Mermaid silly pants plays some mediation music to centre our beings with a chime to end the session.
Theme: Wacky Potions
Duration: 1 hour & spell pinch
Price: $550
Workshop Capacity: Up to 30 kids
Aim: This workshop aims to develop and extend vocabulary, helps children to develop auditory memory skills, sequence, and rhyming. It also spontaneously engages them in a STEM activity to help them develop their critical thinking skills.
Description: Wacky Wuzzle Witch is a curious witch her loves to experiment with spells and potions.
In this workshop the children will be given a wacky hat and wild wilding stick ready to enter the school of potions and giggles. Children will be gathered to the spell circle and Wacky Wuzzle will interactively re-enact the story of Room on a Broom by Julia Donaldson by encouraging the children actively interact with the use of character puppets from the book. Through rhythm, dance, and sound we explore with our bodies and form various yoga poses to stimulate the characters and objects in the book. Finally, children will create their very own magical potion with natural resources and observe the synergy of active ingredients.
To end the session children will gather in a circle and reflect on their experiences and Wacky Wuzzle will give each child a crystal for them to wish on and centre their beings
Theme: Little Lost Dinosaur
Duration: 1 hour & a roar
Price: $550
Workshop Capacity: 30 kids
Aim: This workshop aims to spark and facilitate your kinder kid’s imagination and cognitive skills. It will promote critical thinking and problem-solving skills and encourage scientific exploration and discovery of how life was like for dinosaurs.
Workshop: Little lost Dino has fallen into a time travel vortex and landed in human land. Little Dino is lost and desperately needs to find their home. In this workshop the children are asked to become prehistoric Dino detectives and workout collaborative What type of dinosaur they are? Where they live? and What they might eat? Through dance and instruments the children will interpret the movement of dinosaurs and practice the lifecycle of a dinosaur through yoga flow. Finally, the children will be invited to step outside and provided with some detective props to find little lost Dinosaurs family, which are hidden in the playground.
To end the session the children will gather in a circle to talk about and group all the dinosaurs they have found together to help the little lost dinosaur re unite with their family.
Finally, each child will be given a Dino egg wishing necklace to keep as a reminder of their prehistoric adventure.
Theme: Reindeer Bootcamp
Duration: 1 hour
Price: $550
Workshop Capacity: 40 to 50 kids.
Aim: To ignite the Christmas spirit of Santa magic. This workshop promotes imaginative play and encourages little bodies to move through dance, whilst engaging in environmental connections and experimenting with materials to enhance their gross motor skills. It also promotes healthy lifestyles and good choices in nutrition.
Workshop: Oh, my fairy gosh Santa is in a snow spin. The reindeers have eaten all the of Mrs Claus deliciously naughty food and continued to eat unhealthy food throughout the year. It’s the first day of December and the reindeers have tummy’s the size of elephants and they simply can’t fly. Children are asked to help save Christmas with Faery Emma. Faery Emma will train the kids to become reindeer bootcamp trainers. To become a successful reindeer trainer, they need to learn reindeer dancing, how to ride on reindeers, create a snowstorm and how to perform a snow fight with the reindeers.
Finally, the children are gathered in a circle to learn Christmas sleeping yoga breathes so they can join Faery Emma every night in their dreams until Christmas Eve to train the reindeers.
