Bruny Kids & Nature

Bruny Kids & Nature

About Bruny Kids & Nature

The Bruny Kids & Nature page is a home for articles, stories and events about, by and for kids who connect with Nature on Bruny Island

Background

Childhood connection with Nature is critically important for health, development, happiness and the pure joy of understanding, seeing and experiencing the wonders of the world around us.

The Bruny kids and Nature page is a home for stories, events, things to do and articles about kids connecting with, learning about and experiencing the joy of Nature on Bruny Island.

This page includes articles and stories written by a range of writers and authors, and includes articles written by kids themselves (with parental permission). The page is managed by educators, writers and parents of kids who have a connection to Bruny Island.

The Bruny Kids webpage project is being coordinated by Bruny Island teacher, Claire Boost. Claire runs Bush Lil (a Launching into Learning Program for children aged 0-4), and is helping to establish an Outdoor Classroom at Bruny Island District School. 

If you or your kid would like an article or story published on this page, just send it through to Bruny Island teacher Claire Boost at: claire@kuno.earth

The Bruny Kids webpage project is proudly supported by the Kuno Foundation and Tasmanian Community Fund. 


Community by Bruny Kids & Nature

Claire Boost

Claire is a Bruny Island teacher who has been educating in, about and for the environment for over 20 years. Claire currently runs Bush LIL, is helping establish an outdoor classroom, and coordinates the Bruny kids webpage project.
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Jess Ewing

Jess is a nature lover and artist. She enjoys spending time outdoors, bushwalking and gardening. 
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Phill Pullinger

Phill is a GP, conservationist, author of Tarkine Trails, and co-founder of Kuno. Phill has broad expertise and a long held passionate commitment to the natural world.
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Articles by Bruny Kids & Nature

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Young Tasmanians’ Bird Stories to Take Flight at Bruny Island Bird Festival

The Bruny Youth Stories Prize has received dozens of beautiful entries from young writers as young as six, from Bruny Island and right across Tasmania...
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Bruny Youth Stories Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry - Lily and the Stolen Bird, by August Walter, 10yrs old
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Bruny Youth Story Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry- The Adventurous Penguin written by George Lydon, aged 8
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The Neck view by Tilde Bergstrom

Winners of the Bruny Youth Stories Prize!

The first ever Bruny Youth Stories Prize received several dozen of entries from kids and youth all across Tasmania. Here are the winners and finalists...
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Bees T Illy aged 7

World Bee Day: Science and outdoor learning go together like bees and honey

Young minds are innately curious about the world around them. So much is new, exciting, miraculous! And so it proved at World Bee Day on Bruny Island
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Bruny Youth Stories Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry-Swift Parrots written by Tilly, aged 7
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Adventures at "Chock Rock"

Bruny Island off the South-East Coast of Tasmania holds an exquisitely intact marine ecosystem. This short film supported by the Bruny Kids and Nature...
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Art For Swiftie Conservation

With joint creative efforts, kids from the Bruny Island District School created a Swift Parrot sculpture that was entered into the Bruny Island Bird F...
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Bruny Youth Story Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry - The Kingfisher Lord by Hunter van Tuil, age 13
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Kids nature books

Open a book, step into nature

From picture books to hands-on resources, inspire children to learn, explore, and fall in love with nature with this collection of resources
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Bruny Youth Story Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry - Stuck adventures on Bruny Island, by Addison King
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Front on view Forty Spotted Pardalote Kim Murray

Bruny Youth Stories Prize

Bruny Youth Story Prize entry-The forty-spotted pardalote, written by Beach Thornton, age 14 
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