Minibeasts

Explore the Spring Garden, all year round as favourite Minibeasts!

Children explore Minibeasts behaviours and habitats learning about predators, pollination, and camouflage through dramatic play.

Suitable for:

Preschool 3-5 year olds

Available in:

Melbourne

Also available in: Sydney

Duration:

60 minutes

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Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF)

Minibeasts Incursion for Preschool: Dress Up, Explore & Learn!

Step into the world of minibeasts as preschoolers transform into butterflies, ladybirds, dragonflies, and more!

In this hands-on incursion, children dress up as insects and explore garden habitats, discovering how minibeasts survive, pollinate plants, and avoid predators.

Through movement, role play, and interactive storytelling, they’ll gain a deeper appreciation for nature while building confidence, creativity, and communication skills.

Perfect for all year round, this play-based learning experience aligns with EYLF outcomes, making it an exciting and educational choice for preschool incursions.

How does it work?

A drama educator will visit your center, bringing 30 vibrant costumes and immersive props that transform children into minibeasts within a garden habitat.
From butterflies and grasshoppers to spiders and worms, each child steps into a role, using guided storytelling to explore the world of insects. Through playful movements like flying, wriggling, hopping, and jumping, they’ll experience the rhythms of nature while learning about habitats and ecosystems in an engaging, hands-on way.
Costumes provided include grasshoppers, worms, caterpillars, spiders, slaters, butterflies, ladybirds and dragonflies.
A Social Story is provided so you can prepare your children for our arrival to help with any anxieties.
Additional Teacher Resources are also provided to extend the dramatic play, long after we leave.

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Curriculum Suitability

The “Minibeasts” workshop addresses the following Early Years Learning and Development Outcomes (Birth to 5 years):

Outcome 1: Identity

Children have a strong sense of identity, when they:

cooperate and work collaboratively together eg. marching in single file like ants to collect food;
use role play eg. pretending to be slaters; adopting their features, movement and survival instincts such as crawling around the garden and curling up when they feel threatened.

Outcome 2: Community

Children are connected with and contribute to their world, when they:

use drama to broaden their understanding of minibeasts; their habitat, features, movement and survival instincts. eg the minibeasts protect themselves from the hungry bird by camouflaging in the garden;
develop an awareness of the interdependence of living things eg. pretending to be bees collecting nectar from the flowers to make honey;
use role play to observe and notice change eg. pretending to be caterpillars turning into butterflies.

Outcome 3: Wellbeing

Children have a strong sense of wellbeing, when they:

make new discoveries about minibeasts including the concepts of camouflage, life cycles and pollination;
use physical activity and skills to adopt the minibeast’s movement and characteristics eg. talk like grasshoppers by rubbing their legs together.

Outcome 4: Learning

Children are confident and involved learners, when they:

use their imaginations to investigate minibeasts living in a garden, exploring features, movement, lifecycles and survival instincts;
use role play to explore the concept of camouflage.

Outcome 5: Communication

Children are effective communicators, when they:

interact non-verbally by pretending to be minibeasts, to demonstrate an understanding of lifecycles, pollination, interdependence of living things and camouflage.

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Reviews of this Incursion

Great experience for children to express their understanding and learnings about bugs and insects through music and body movement. Wonderful opportunity for children to learn through play.

Auburn South Preschool

The children were very happily engaged and involved in this whole Minibeasts incursion and learning experience. The music and costumes were wonderful, and the presenter was also very animated and respectful with the children.

Brentwood Kindergarten

Drama Toolbox is a great program for my Three Year Old Kinder class! They're always engaging and exciting and children love dressing up and pretending to be something different. The costumes are gorgeous and well crafted. My children always look forward to seeing them come in and engaging with what ever comes out of the dress up box.

Coburg Children's Centre

Drama Toolbox is a great interactive program where the children can use new knowledge from the program and physically act it out helping to retain the information.

De Garis Kindergarten

Children were engaged from start to finish. Lots of smiles and giggles, Great addition to our minibeast inquiry unit.

Donvale Preschool

This program was perfect for our 3 year old group. All the children happily participated and loved every minute.

Canterbury Gardens Kindergarten

The minibeast incursion is engaging and interesting for children. It covers familiar topics which helps to keep the children engaged and focused. The balance of instructional, listening and movement is a perfect balance to suit almost any child to engage in some way in the drama production.

Greensborough Preschool

Always informative and fun. staff are amazing, costumes great, the children are engaged and absolutely love it.

Hartley Ridge Preschool

The children enjoyed having the opportunity to dress up as their favourite insects while also gaining new information about each of the different creatures.

Mildura Central Early Learning Centre

The children were engaged right from the start. They learned a lot of facts about minibeasts in a fun and interactive way. The dress-ups and acting out different minibeasts behaviour and responses to predators (bird) was a lot of fun. The children really enjoyed the program.

Taylors Lane Kindergarten

Minibeasts

Explore the Spring Garden, all year round as favourite Minibeasts!

Suitable for:

Available in:

Duration:

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Curriculum Suitability

Reviews of this Incursion

Great experience for children to express their understanding and learnings about bugs and insects through music and body movement. Wonderful opportunity for children to learn through play.

The children were very happily engaged and involved in this whole Minibeasts incursion and learning experience. The music and costumes were wonderful, and the presenter was also very animated and respectful with the children.

Drama Toolbox is a great interactive program where the children can use new knowledge from the program and physically act it out helping to retain the information.

Children were engaged from start to finish. Lots of smiles and giggles, Great addition to our minibeast inquiry unit.

This program was perfect for our 3 year old group. All the children happily participated and loved every minute.

The minibeast incursion is engaging and interesting for children. It covers familiar topics which helps to keep the children engaged and focused. The balance of instructional, listening and movement is a perfect balance to suit almost any child to engage in some way in the drama production.

Always informative and fun. staff are amazing, costumes great, the children are engaged and absolutely love it.

The children enjoyed having the opportunity to dress up as their favourite insects while also gaining new information about each of the different creatures.

The children were engaged right from the start. They learned a lot of facts about minibeasts in a fun and interactive way. The dress-ups and acting out different minibeasts behaviour and responses to predators (bird) was a lot of fun. The children really enjoyed the program.

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Minibeasts

Explore the Spring Garden, all year round as favourite Minibeasts!

Suitable for:

Available in:

Duration:

Links to:

Gallery

Curriculum Suitability

Reviews of this Incursion

Great experience for children to express their understanding and learnings about bugs and insects through music and body movement. Wonderful opportunity for children to learn through play.

The children were very happily engaged and involved in this whole Minibeasts incursion and learning experience. The music and costumes were wonderful, and the presenter was also very animated and respectful with the children.

Drama Toolbox is a great interactive program where the children can use new knowledge from the program and physically act it out helping to retain the information.

Children were engaged from start to finish. Lots of smiles and giggles, Great addition to our minibeast inquiry unit.

This program was perfect for our 3 year old group. All the children happily participated and loved every minute.

The minibeast incursion is engaging and interesting for children. It covers familiar topics which helps to keep the children engaged and focused. The balance of instructional, listening and movement is a perfect balance to suit almost any child to engage in some way in the drama production.

Always informative and fun. staff are amazing, costumes great, the children are engaged and absolutely love it.

The children enjoyed having the opportunity to dress up as their favourite insects while also gaining new information about each of the different creatures.

The children were engaged right from the start. They learned a lot of facts about minibeasts in a fun and interactive way. The dress-ups and acting out different minibeasts behaviour and responses to predators (bird) was a lot of fun. The children really enjoyed the program.

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