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Index

A

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
  • Australia
  • Adults
  • Age
  • Air
  • Aircraft
  • Aliens
  • Allergies and food intolerances
  • Animal scales
  • Animals
  • Art
  • Autumn

B

  • Babies and pregnancy
  • Balancing
  • Balls
  • Beaches
  • Beads
  • Beauty and fashion
  • Bees
  • Belonging
  • Bikes
  • Birds
  • Birthdays
  • Blocks and construction toys
  • Boats
  • Bodies
  • Bones
  • Books
  • Breastfeeding
  • Buses
  • Buttons

C

  • Christmas
  • Cars
  • Cause and effect
  • Celebrations
  • Cities
  • Clapping
  • Clay
  • Cleaning and tidying
  • Climate change
  • Climbing
  • Clouds
  • Coding and computer programming
  • Colds and the flu
  • Collage
  • Colours
  • Communication
  • Community
  • Construction sites
  • Construction vehicles
  • Cooking
  • Coral
  • Countries
  • Crawling
  • Creative writing
  • Culture
  • Cutting

D

  • Dads
  • Dance
  • Data
  • Death
  • Dental care
  • Dentists
  • Deserts
  • Designing
  • Dinosaurs
  • Disability
  • Diversity
  • Divorce and separation
  • Doctors and nurses
  • Dolls
  • Dolls houses
  • Dragons
  • Drama
  • Drawing
  • Drought
  • Dust storms

E

  • Earth
  • Easter
  • Elderly people
  • Electricity
  • Emergency services
  • Emotions
  • Endangered species
  • Engineering
  • Extinction
  • Extreme winds

F

  • Father's day
  • Fabric
  • Fairies
  • Family
  • Farms
  • Feathers
  • Fibre and textiles
  • Fine motor
  • Fire
  • Fish
  • Flash cards
  • Flowers
  • Fog
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Fruit and vegetables
  • Fur

G

  • Games with rules
  • Gardening
  • Gender
  • Ghosts
  • Grandparents
  • Gross motor experiences
  • Growing up

H

  • Halloween
  • Hail
  • Hand gestures
  • Handwashing
  • Handwriting
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Health conditions
  • Holding and manipulating objects
  • Homes and houses
  • Hopping
  • Hospitals
  • Hula hoops
  • Hygiene

I

  • Ice
  • Illness
  • Immigrants and refugees
  • Immunisation
  • Independence
  • Injuries
  • Insects
  • Invertebrates

J

  • Jumping

L

  • Ladders
  • Lakes
  • Languages
  • Laws
  • Leather
  • Leaves
  • Light
  • Lightning
  • Listening
  • Loose parts

M

  • Mother's day
  • Magnets
  • Making
  • Making friends
  • Marine creatures
  • Marriage and weddings
  • Matching games
  • Maths and numeracy skills
  • Measurements
  • Medicine
  • Meditation
  • Memory games
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Mermaids and mermen
  • Messy play
  • Metal
  • Mindfulness
  • Mirrors
  • Money
  • Monsoons and the wet season
  • Monsters
  • Motorbikes
  • Mountains
  • Mud
  • Mums
  • Music
  • Mythical creatures

N

  • New Year
  • Native Australian animals
  • Native Australian plants
  • Natural disasters
  • Natural materials
  • Nature
  • Nesting
  • Numbers
  • Nutrition

O

  • Obstacle courses
  • Oceans

P

  • Painting
  • Paper
  • Parachutes
  • Parents and carers
  • Parks
  • Patterns
  • Pets
  • Photography
  • Physical activity
  • Planes
  • Planets
  • Plants
  • Plastic
  • Playdough
  • Playgrounds
  • Poetry
  • Pointing
  • Popular culture
  • Posting objects
  • Pregnancy and birth
  • Printmaking
  • Problem solving
  • Processed materials
  • Puppets
  • Push and pull toys
  • Puzzles

R

  • Rain
  • Rainbows
  • Ramps
  • Recycling
  • Reflections
  • Religion
  • Repairing
  • Rest and relaxation
  • Reusing
  • Rivers
  • Robots
  • Rocks and stones
  • Role play
  • Rubbish
  • Rules
  • Running
  • Rural living

S

  • STEM
  • Safety and security
  • Sand
  • Scary things
  • Schools
  • Science
  • Scissors
  • Sculpture
  • Sea sponges
  • Seasons
  • Seedpods
  • Seeds
  • Self-care
  • Self-expression
  • Self-help
  • Senses
  • Shadows
  • Shapes
  • Shells
  • Shopping
  • Sign language
  • Skipping
  • Sleep
  • Slides
  • Smell
  • Snow
  • Soap
  • Soft toys
  • Soil
  • Sorting
  • Sounds
  • Space
  • Spacecraft
  • Sport
  • Spring
  • Stacking
  • Standing
  • Stars
  • Steam
  • Sticks
  • Storms
  • Storytelling
  • Summer
  • Sun safety
  • Superheros
  • Sustainability

T

  • Teachers
  • Technology
  • Teeth
  • Temperature
  • Texture
  • The Australian bush
  • The government
  • The home corner
  • The moon
  • The sky
  • The sun
  • Threading
  • Thunder
  • Time
  • Toileting
  • Tools
  • Trains
  • Trams
  • Transport
  • Travel
  • Tree bark
  • Trees
  • Trucks
  • Tummy time

U

  • Unicorns
  • Upcycling

V

  • Vegetables
  • Venom
  • Videography
  • Violence
  • Visual arts
  • Volcanos

W

  • Walking
  • War
  • Waste reduction
  • Water
  • Weather
  • Wheeled toys
  • Wind
  • Winter
  • Wood
  • Work and careers
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  • About

The Interest Forest

The Interest Forest was created by a small team of Australian early childhood teachers. We believe in less paperwork and more play.

We have collected hundreds of children's interests, linked to the EYLF, to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your program. We hope you enjoy exploring our Forest of interest topics.

Acknowledgement

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and thank them for caring for our land, coastlines and waterways.

We pay our respect to their Elders past and present with extended respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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