Bush Buddies Kids' Club - Bush Heritage Australia

Summer Activity Pack

It’s turtle time! Learn about the marine turtles in Australia’s coastal waters, the vast distances they travel and how we can help protect the beaches where they nest.

Discover our partnership with TOMRA, a global company that run Reverse Vending Machines, which is helping close the loop on container recycling.

And hear how a squelching farty-noise led to an exciting discovery. Includes illustrations to colour, tracks to copy, mess to untangle and tips for a planet-friendly party season!

Kids' activities

Support Native Bees

Bees have a very important job - they pollinate plants! Here's how you can support them in your garden.

How to attract lizards to your garden

Wherever you are in Australia, when the weather's warm, chances are there are lizards that you could encourage into your garden. Skinks, dragons, geckos and blue-tongues all make great neighbours – not only will they protect your garden by eating up insects, some can take care of slugs and snails as well.

The art of birdwatching

Lots of people who work at Bush Heritage enjoy birdwatching – both out on our nature reserves and in local suburban areas. Let’s look at why we love it and how you can get involved too.

The walking water experiment

Plants need water – everyone knows. And they can draw water up from their roots into their leaves at the top through a process called capillary action. We can see how this works using a simple paper towel.

Summer night insect audit

Warm summer nights are a great time to discover which insects live around your home. To find out, we can set up a Light Trap.

Daisy chains

Spring means wildflowers and many local parks and backyards will be in bloom, which means it’s the perfect time to dust off your skills at making Daisy chains!

Compost in a bottle

Healthy soil is a very important part of nature. In this science experiment, we’re going to compost food scraps to create nutrient-rich soil. It will take about three weeks.

Dirt track detectives

Take a quick quiz and see if you can figure out which animals left these tracks on our conservation reserves.

How do rainbows work?

Where there’s sunshine and rain together it usually means a beautiful, clear rainbow! Why? Let’s find out by making a rainbow of our own.

How to make damper

Exploring, hiking or camping in the bush is a sure way to build up an appetite. There are loads of delicious foods you can cook over an open fire but one of the simplest and best known to make is damper. It’s so easy, everyone can have a go.

Decorate your devices

With these desktop wallpapers we'd like to share with you some of the landscapes, plants and animals that we protect together. We'll add new photographs from time to time and let you know through our newsletters and Facebook page.

Get crafty

Face masks

Do you know how some of our Aussie animals behave? Dressing up is lots of fun and it really gets you thinking. What are some things these animals can do that people can't? Print off and cut out face masks of an ant eating Numbat, cheeky Fairywren or sleepy Koala.

Make a face mask

Bedroom name signs

It's not just animals that are territorial – kids can be too! Choose the first letter of your name, then download and print off the matching animal room sign. Mark your name on it and hang on your bedroom door to let everyone know who the room belongs to.

Find your sign

Alwal origami

The world needs more Golden-shouldered Parrots - only between 700 and 1,100 of these beautiful turquoise and green birds remain in the wild on Cape peninsula in far north Queensland. Make your own unreal origami parrots with these simple instructions. Simply print and fold!

Get started

Colourful creatures

Talented volunteers have created colouring sheets of native animals that live on our different reserves. Discover which creatures live in different parts of Australia and use our species spotlight pages to discover their colours and markings (or give them all spectacular new colours).

Get colouring

Work sheets

Free, fun and educational work sheets. Solve our maze to reconnect a mother possum with her joey. Join the dots to draw a Burrowing Bettong or complete a word search to help us find animals from our Carnarvon Station Reserve.

Work sheets