Playcentre day a community success
On Thursday 19th November Te Puna Playcentre hosted an open day to promote the centre to local parents. Playcentre is a parent-run space where you can come along with your kids and enjoy helping them learn and grow through play. As well as providing a support network for parents navigating the joys and challenges that come with parenting.
We were thrilled at how the local business community got behind our open day. Te Puna Butcher Naked Meats supplied delicious pork sausages for the BBQ, Bethlehem Countdown sponsored bread and condiments to go with it, Marathon Visual Media on Christopher Street, Tauranga printed our promotional flyers and Lizard News printed our flyer in the last issue also. Our neighbours, Te Puna School, also kindly loaned us their BBQ to cook on.
We want to say a huge thank you to these businesses for their support. The children had a ball and new friends were made. it was just awesome to share the Playcentre way with other parents who might benefit hugely from joining us each week as we learn and play together. A highlight of the day was the face painting by talented mum Macarena Franco, we saw all sorts from pirates to butterflies and pink tigers! Another highlight was getting into the garden to plant the tomatoes, beans, courgettes and lettuce supplied by Growers Direct just around the corner from us in Te Puna. We are big on nature and teaching the children where their food comes from. The garden allows us to demonstrate that in an awesome way. The open day was a great example of our local community supporting each other and we hope to see this happen again next year.