Programs For Children

Incursions and creative play activity sessions

Whether it’s our whole body warm up song and dance, our novel drawing materials and tools or our group drawing approach, we’ll have your whole group engaged in the energy and excitement of a Squiggle Kids incursion.*

Yes, it’s not all about drawing! We start with a big warm up to get our bodies and voices ready and ideas flowing. This also helps us to warm up to working as a group and scoops up the children that may be reluctant to draw.

The group drawing activities create opportunities to demonstrate and practise communication, language and social skills through sharing ideas, stories, space, tools and materials. Putting paint stick to paper practises the physical and cognitive skills used in writing.

While our time in the classroom is short, early learning professionals often tell us that drawing in groups, together with all the chat that flows, continues long after our visit.

If parents attend (we’d encourage them to join us), we’ll provide some key information about drawing with children and point out some of the learning and development magic that happens when children draw. We also take the opportunity to say to parents – “Yes, you can do it too!”

The kindergarten, early learning centre or organisation can choose a theme for the incursion from a range offered by Squiggle Kids. All themes support fine motor development, build communication and promote play opportunities. In addition to these objectives, some of our themes also aim to enhance children’s emotional literacy, social relationships, awareness of community and cooperation and provide a sensory experience.

*Internal surveys of early years professionals since Term 3 2023 suggest that around 92% of children usually reluctant to participate in making and drawing join in our sessions.

Want something a bit like this but not quite?

We’d love to chat with you about your ideas and goals and collaborate to create something tailored specifically for your kindergarten, early learning centre or organisation!

Want more impact?

Does your parent community want more information about drawing? Do they have questions about grip, handedness and other fine and gross motor activities?

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Does your team of professionals want more information on the Squiggle Kids children drawing approach so you can implement it effectively on your own? Do you want more ideas to engage the parent community on drawing with children?

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Do your families need more prompts and ideas to get them started drawing at home? Are drawing tools and materials for children not easily available in your community? We have resources to help:

Squiggle Kids Literacy Kits: Specially curated packs of drawing tools, materials and resources for families to take home. Kits are priced at $30 and $38 each (our $38 kit is available from our shop here.) We can also design kits to suit a more limited budget. An additional charge applies for postage of the kits to the kindergarten, early learning centre or organisation or to individual homes.

Squiggle Kids Drawing Activity Books: Each book includes a fun and engaging narrative and simple drawing prompts to encourage adults and children to work together to draw and to build confidence drawing. For use in an organisational setting (including sharing with families affiliated with the organisation), an electronic file of each book is priced at $55 and available from the Resources for Professionals section of the shop here. Value Bundles also available. We can also arrange printed copies – price on application. Postage may also apply.