Recently our Manu learning area were visited by the team from Junky Monkeys.

To learn more about Junky Monkeys, please CLICK HERE.

In brief, they aim to connect with a generation of children who are missing out on opportunities to play. Sitting inside on devices, disconnected from nature, and spending the bulk of their time in adult-structured environments, our kids are exhibiting a lack of resilience and increasingly suffering from anxiety and depression.

Meanwhile, our landfills are overflowing with discarded plastic goods, because a ‘throw-away’ culture has us believing it’s better to buy something new than repurpose something old.

Junky Monkeys exists to counter these trends, repurposing junk (a.k.a. Loose parts) into resources for creative play and promoting a cultural shift towards reduce, reuse, recycle and a circular economy.

Through Junky Monkeys programmes in schools, they aim to turn trash into taonga, and protect children’s right to play!

Thanks to Miss Bosman for these photos.