Nature-based Sustainability Education for Kids in Early Childhood and Primary School
Inspiring Lifelong Sustainability Habits Through Nature-Based Learning
Now, more than ever, it’s time for children to Get Grubby and connect with nature through play-based sustainability learning!
We protect what we love, but first, we need to know something to love it.
Getting outside, getting grubby, and falling in love with the natural world helps grow a new generation of healthy, happy and resilient children.
The Get Grubby Program is packed with positivity, helping educators to inspire children to develop lifelong, sustainable habits and a genunine care for nature.
When we support children to lead with their heads, hearts and hands, we don’t just create better learners. We grow better futures.
Growing a Lifelong Connection to Nature
The Get Grubby Program invites children to get outside and discover the simple truth: we are nature.
It‘s a joyful, hands-on celebration of life in the big, beautiful world outside where curiosity thrives and muddy hands are welcome.
Designed to nurture resilience, positive attitudes and lifelong planet-loving habits, it supports the next generation of nature caretakers.
With a fresh environmental message delivered by dirtgirl, scrapboy and Costa the garden gnome, Get Grubby empowers children and families to do little things that make a big difference!
It invites children to step into a world of wonder, connection and discovery through guided learning that links people, plants, animals and the earth – all while encouraging more sustainable actions and habits.
What Will Children Explore in the Get Grubby Program?
The Get Grubby Program resources help kids develop practical skills like growing a food garden, worm farming, composting, recycling and more, connecting learning to real life.
Here’s what children get up to:
Go outside and connect with nature – feel the dirt, watch the weather and let childhood nature play and curiousity lead the way!
Grow a garden – dig, plant, weed, and mulch – learning to grow food and care for a garden.
Make compost and feed hungry worms – creating nutrient-rich soil magic!
Discover the water cycle – and learn how to save every precious little drop.
Explore how to reuse, reduce and recycle – turning rubbish into treasure.
Practice recycling like a rockstar– sorting waste the right way.
Handle food scraps and garden waste with care – so they don’t end up in landfill but go to compost or organics bins instead.
Investigate where energy comes from – and find clever ways to save it.
Celebrate our planet – with fun dirtgirlworld-style activities!
