by Celia Hogan | Jun 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Simple, screen-free ideas for life with a new baby and a busy preschooler Bringing a second baby into the family is a beautiful, wild, and often overwhelming transition. You’ve done it before, the sleepless nights, the feeding marathons, the emotional rollercoaster....
by Celia Hogan | Mar 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
I get a lot of emails from one-day schools and ECE centres setting up or running bush kindy’s or nature-based programmes. Questions are on a variety of topics and for some of these questions I developed a ‘How To Guide’ that focuses on setting up a Bush Kindy but also...
by Celia Hogan | Jun 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
‘How can we bring nature in’ is a question I am asked often and one that is very relevant in ECE, primary schools and beyond. As teachers, we have the super important job of helping our young tamariki grow into awesome little beings. We’re talking...
by Celia Hogan | Oct 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Originally published in Te Whakatika (EONZ) ‘Nature is the best medicine’. It’s an oldie but a goodie and seems to have stood the test of time. I would even say it’s coming back into fashion. But what does nature have to do with education? Where does it fit in?...
by Celia Hogan | Aug 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Loose parts are an essential element in any play setting creating opportunities for children’s creativity, problem-solving and cognitive development. When I think back to my childhood, I can remember some of my own play experiences and the loose parts scattered...
