Kids Greening Taupo

19/06/2026

Get in quick to grab a ticket!

🌿 Greening Taupō Day Fundraising Raffle! 🌿

There are still a few tickets left in our fundraising raffle, and every ticket sold helps support the work of Greening Taupō and Kids Greening Taupō, including community events like Greening Taupō Day.

$5 per ticket or $20 per book (5 tickets)

With over $2,000 worth of prizes up for grabs, this is your chance to support a great cause and be in to win some fantastic local experiences and goodies!

A huge thank you to the incredible local businesses who have generously donated prizes, including:

Mitre 10 MEGA Taupō (2 amazing wheelbarrows packed with goodies)
🌱 AJ Hackett Bungy
🌱 Chris Jolly Outdoors
🌱 Lava Glass
🌱 Swingers Putt Putt
🌱 Taupō Confinement Rooms
🌱 Wairakei Terraces
🌱 Wairakei Resort
🌱 12th Tee Golf

By grabbing a ticket (or a whole book!), you're helping fund environmental education, native habitat restoration, community planting projects, and keeping Taupō green for future generations. 💚

Raffle drawn: 2 July 2026

To get your tickets:
• Message us
• Email: [email protected]
• Visit Mitre 10 MEGA Taupō

Thank you for supporting local environmental action — and good luck! 🍀

16/06/2026

🐀 🪤 Trap building at Taupo-nui-a-Tia College! ! 🐭 🪤 This awesome class sets a trapline each year and monitors it regularly. They had a session from our coordinator about the history of the biodiversity crisis in Aotearoa, then they made and set tracking tunnels to monitor what was around the riverside, now they've built traps with Predator Free Taupo to set up their trapline. We can't wait to see how they go. 👏

16/06/2026

🐀 🪤 Great work Keas! 👏🐭

16/06/2026

😍 It's hard to judge so many amazing entries! Donovan Bixley Author/Illustrator and Sue Graham - Artist at Wildwood Gallery have joined Jo from Huka Honey Hive to judge this year's Quality Print Ltd nature art competition. Students from all our local schools have drawn freshwater species to show what a healthy freshwater environment looks like. Winners will be announced next week at the prize giving. Watch this space! 👏

15/06/2026

🌿 It starts with nature connection! 💚 As David Attenborough has said, "No one will care about what they have never experienced..." So, for us, the first step in conservation is to connect our tamariki with nature, and that's what Heidi was doing with Tauhara Primary School, Taupo new entrants last week in their local gully space. Did you know that we have over 50 free nature scavenger hunts on our website? Most of them are also available in te reo Māori! Check them out and get exploring!, 💚🌿 https://www.kidsgreeningtaupo.org.nz/scavenger-hunts

15/06/2026

We are incredibly grateful for Contact Energy and Grassroots Trust Central’s generous support in funding Heidi's Coordinator role working with Early Childhood Education centres across our community. Together, we are creating opportunities for children to build lifelong connections with nature and develop a sense of responsibility for the world around them.

14/06/2026

😍 Adding to the natural regeneration in the Taupo Intermediate School gully with some native ferns was exciting. 🌿🌱 Only a few years ago this spot was a w**d infested area that you couldn't get into, with jasmine covering the 50 year old trees. After removing it all the earth was bare, but the subcanopy is now flourishing! Check out the before photo from 2021!
Read more about this project here: https://www.kidsgreeningtaupo.org.nz/greening-news/intermediate-gully-restoration

14/06/2026

😍We LOVE hearing that the learning has carried on in class after we left! We gave a butterfly chrysalis to a junior class at Hilltop School and taught them about how/why to tag the butterfly when it emerged. We were super excited to hear that their butterfly emerged successfully and was tagged and released, but also that the experience had led to literacy and art work in class. We don't always get to see the follow up work that happens, but love hearing about it.🦋 Thanks Taupo Community Gardens for the chrysalis and Moths and Butterflies of NZ Trust for the tags. This type of hands on collaborative citizen science project creates such awesome learning opportunities for tamariki across many curriculum areas.💚

12/06/2026

It’s not too late! Bring in your Huka Honey Hive art competition to the Hive to be in to win. Thank you to Quality Print Ltd for the support in this learning. The community loves it.

12/06/2026

😍 We love this! 👏 Some of the ferns that were collected by our student leaders from in plantation forest have now been safely tucked into their forever home in the koru garden at Reporoa Primary School. 💚