Creating a 'bush experience' has been the goal of centre director Marisel Blefari, who secured a memorandum of understanding in 2017 with the owner of two acres behind the kindergarten.

The site's frontage to Marcus Creek made it the perfect place for children to explore the environment, but access was less than ideal.

Ms Blefari sought funding options to clean up the area and install a walkway of sorts.

But a grant she lodged was knocked back - and that's where the Yackandandah Men's Shed stepped in.

"We had discussed doing the works, and when Marisel told us they hadn't got the grant, we decided to go ahead and do it for them anyway," secretary Frank Burfitt said.

"We've made things for the kindergarten before, and they support us."

Six members built the 30-metre walkway over three months using recycled materials, such as off-cuts from a steel company.

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Mr Burfitt said many people had been involved and that Ms Blefari was the driving force behind the project.

"It's been a great community effort," he said.

"We usually do work at the sheds one day a week, but we had blokes going out of their way to come in on weekends.

"I think introducing the kids to nature in this way is terrific."

Ms Blefari, who has been director since 2012, thanked the people involved at an opening of the boardwalk on Tuesday.

"We've had parents doing fundraisers, people from NECMA coming to talk to the kids, and Indigenous people identifying plants that have a use," she said.

"We use this space as we go - if the kids are learning about kookaburras for example, we will come out and look for them.

"We are finding that our children, like the broader Yackandandah community, hold strong values about the importance of connection to nature."

Ms Blefari has further plans to recognise Aboriginal culture through a bush tucker garden and re-vegetation projects.

The area is part of a corridor that links Yackandandah Creek with the Baranduda Regional Park.