This week is Children’s Week 2020, and Golden Plains Shire Council is once again proud to deliver an exciting Children’s Week celebration.
Children’s Week is a national event held every year during October, giving families and community members the opportunity to recognise the talents, skills, achievements and rights of children. This year, Children’s Week runs from 24 October to 1 November with its theme celebrating the right of all children to choose their own friends and safely connect with others. This is based on Article 15 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
While the COVID-19 pandemic prevent Council from holding its usual in-person event, Council’s Child and Family Services team are running free remote activities families can participate in from home: DIY friendship bracelets and online interactive playgroup sessions.
Friendship Bracelets
Children will be getting creative from home, making a friendship bracelet for themselves or to share with a friend or family member. All children enrolled in a funded four-year-old kindergarten program, and families who registered will receive a friendship bracelet pack. Due to overwhelming demand, the DIY friendship bracelet kits activity is now fully subscribed and all kits have now been allocated.
Interactive Playgroup
Families are invited to join the Golden Plains Early Years team for three fun and interactive playgroup sessions during Children’s Week. The playgroups will be held over Zoom from 10.30 to 11.15am on Monday 26, Wednesday 28 and Friday 30 October, 2020. The playgroups will include different activities for children and families to follow along to from home, including stories by the Geelong Regional Library Corporation, singing, fun, play and even a bit of magic. Participants will receive a Zoom link and activity sheets ahead of the sessions.
Families can still register for the interactive playgroups by visiting goldenplains.vic.gov.au/events/childrens-week-0, emailing [email protected] or calling 5220 7230.
These Children’s Week activities are presented by Golden Plains Shire in partnership with the Victorian Government.