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A beautiful Post-Fathers’ Day Breakfast at Pascals Albany

12 September 2018

To celebrate our centre fathers and father figures, we hosted a Post-Fathers’ Day Breakfast at the centre. Dads, uncles, granddathers, stepfathers all joined us over a menu of Pïni maoa , tōmato, hash browns, pēkana, hōtiti and hua. Each dad also received a beautiful fathers’ day token from our tamariki. Then after breakfast, many of them stayed to read some of our favourite books and play a little before heading off to work. Another beautiful memory added to our tamariki’s memory banks!

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No doubt over the years we’ve all had a wee dabble playing with play dough- whether it be the commercial play-doh brand that was first marketing as a play product in the 1950’s or the homemade version that has been whipped up in kitchens all around the world. There are many reasons why playdough is so popular and the skills developed through playing with this medium go far deeper than just imagination and creativity!

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