Aussie Animals at Kindy

Miles Kindy had Animals Anonymous, a special group that brings Australian animals for the kids to see and touch and learn from every year. This year there were snakes, a sugar glider, a bettong, a green frog but luckily no spiders!! Miles is usually very reluctant to touch new things so we made a deal that if he touched five animals he would get a little toy aussie animal that we have been collecting. That was all it took, he was pumped on the big day!

This is a bettong. It is a relative to a wallaby and very soft to feel.

Izzy loved touching all the animals. This is a green frog which breathes through it's skin in case you didn't know.

Miles started with the fuzzy animal(bettong)and then it was smooth sailing through the rest of them.

Here is a baby python that Izzy enjoyed holding.

Miles took his turn and didn't squirm at all.

This lizard walked right up to Izzy while the instructor was telling us about him and Izzy just started to pet it!

Izzy is sitting on Keeasha's knee (a family friend). Her plan was to see what animals were going around and then visit both and return to Keeasha to pet one animal a second time. She especially loved the tails of the snakes and lizards.

This is a sugar glider that flies between trees. We got to see it jump from Keeasha's shoulder to the trainer which was very cool.

It wouldn't be autralian animals without a baby croc!

The grown up python really caught Izzy's attention! She loved hoding her part! It took 5 kids to hold the entire length of this snake. Miles on the other hand drew the line at the big snake and refused to touch it!

Even I conquered my fears and held the big python! Another incredible Australian experience that I'm sure I will never forget!