Big smiles were all round at Torquay’s Sun Bear Children’s Festival in October.
Children enoyed talks, demonstrations and hands-on activities ranging from Indigenous totem animal yarns to marvelling at displays by Great Ocean Road Coast Committee and Eco Logic.
Bending and stretching in animal yoga and painting wildlife rocks were also popular with the young patrons and their parents.
Kids roamed the grounds with personalised Wildlife Warrior Cards around their necks on a mission to save endangered animals and to earn ticks on their score charts.
The wildlife educational element was woven through all activities on the day so all the children would go home with more knowledge about endangered animals and the need to protect them.
Kids gathered endangered wildlife cards, made costumes for the grand wildlife parade and printed their own festival T-shirts.
Some were lucky to sit next to Captain Koala on the Kids Train as talented young music students made their debut on stage, while others were drawn into an Indigenous ceremony created especially for the festival.
More information about the event is available at sunbearfestival.com or at its Facebook page.
