A New Season of Buddy Up: Creativity, Inclusion & Sustainability:

For this workshop, Mia Cao designed the Sensory Bottle activity and, together with Alex Song, guided six children with special needs through the creative process. Using repurposed plastic bottles and colourful materials such as feathers, gems, pom-poms, and beads, each child created a bottle reflecting their own interests and imagination. Sensory bottles can provide calming visual stimulation and support focus and self-regulation, while the use of recycled bottles gave the activity an added environmental purpose. It was a meaningful start to the new school year—bringing together creativity, inclusion, and sustainability, while continuing the friendships and connections built through Buddy Up.

We look forward to another year of creating, learning, and growing together.