Category: Gardens, Back Lanes & Driveways
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Nature detectives: fun ways to explore outdoors with kids
B and I have a go at being nature detectives: first in a large country garden.
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A year of playing with a small garden pond
All the garden pond challenges of the 365 day nature play challenge. In January: breaking the pond ice; in March: We clean it out and find an array of unusual bugs.
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Nature play ideas for a small front garden
Working out things you can play in a small front garden. Using chalk to trace the shadows of the plants. Picking the leaves off the beech hedge. Finding the first insects in Spring.
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Nature play ideas: Things for kids to make…
Making bird feeders from peanuts, pinecones, seeds and wool; Making daisy chains;
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Planting seeds and playing with flowers
Planting the first seeds of the year and pressing daffodils.
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Kids play ideas in a small back garden (Spring)
Ideas to get kids out in the garden in Spring. We savour some un-seasonally nice weather with an early Easter egg hunt; make a den out of the trampoline using garden cuttings; and using the garden waste to celebrate day 300 with style.
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5 minute nature play challenges (331, 332, 315, 314)
Finding catkins, hunting snowdrops, playing with raindrops and the surprising options to be found in supermarket car parks! Shorter challenges near home that can be done quickly when the logistics make getting out tricky.
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Exploring willow sticks (346, 316)
Trying to find ways to play with willow sticks. Using them in den making. Getting distracted with a fire in the chiminea and burning sticks, ferns and leaves.
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Playing with the garden tree (356, 325, 320)
Finding ways to play with and in the biggest, most climbable, garden tree including: climbing the garden tree; putting a hoist and pulley system into the garden tree;
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Night time garden adventures (360, 327)
Playing (carefully) with fire. Exploring the garden in the dark. A seed experiment, searching with torches and making our own plants