Natural Mahogany Indigenous Tracking Set - 5pcs

With a handy leather pouch for storage, this tracking set is the perfect portable choice for a range of cultural based learning! Our tracking stamp set allows educators to celebrate the unique history of our Australian native animals and the tracking skills of Australia's Aboriginal people. Hand crafted from wood this set of 5 tracking stamps can be used in a variety of ways to celebrate and teach the rich history of tracking in Australia.

The stamps can be used in conjunction with dough, as rubbings, as a provocation for art and painting, with loose parts play or in storytelling. They are also a perfect conversation starter or to connect children to country by intentionally teaching them about our First Nations People.

Barna Bidi 'Animal Tracks' - Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives Ideas:

• As an introduction to a stamping activity, try making your own discovery bidi track by stamping each Barna Bidi into clay/damp sand/play doh and sit them out as clues for Barna (plush/replicas) hiding - see if Koolangka can remember which Barna left that Bidi - Can you remember the Barna name in Noongar? it could lead up to the final location set up as a clay/sand tray or paint stamping station with a clue of Koolangka's footprints
   
• Lets talk about and learn how we leave Bidi 'tracks' too in wet ground. As a group investigate, discover and discuss with Koolangka how different size people leave different sized bidi. Discuss how this would be the same as different sized Barna bidi (baby animals and adult) - Investigate, discover and discuss - how movement effects how tracks turn out: - Let's test if we run vs walk how do our tracks look - lets tie a tail onto us - long enough to drag on the ground - now Koolangka test walking vs running vs jumping - what does our Bidi look like? 
   
• Koolangka could create some deadly cooked imprints - Salt dough / Oven Clay / Biscuits Dough or Pastry - Collect and Stamp onto leaves/ bark with your Koolangka and create decorative natural displays of artwork or create a leaf & bark stamped frame in your window or board for displaying information for parents.

Includes five wooden tracking stamps with a leather storage pouch. Each stamp measures approximately 11cm in diameter.

Activity ideas created and written by emerging Noongar Artist Simone Hills - Karda Artwork.

Simone is an Artist Member of the Indigenous Art Code. This means as an artist Simone is adding her voice to the call for fair and ethical trade with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, and transparency in the promotion and sale of artwork.

EYLF Learning Outcome Connections

Outcome 2.1: Children develop understanding and respect for Aboriginal perspectives as they explore the history of animal tracking, Noongar language and connections to Country through hands on experiences.

Outcome 2.4: Children investigate native animals, their tracks and natural environments while developing an appreciation of traditional ecological knowledge.