Category: Woods & Parks
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11 different ways to play with trees
Trees have been a staple source of fun for us over the last year. They’re almost everywhere and every tree has something fun you can do with it. Here’s some ideas.
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Introducing kids to a very old big tree
With 5 days left to go on the 365 day nature play challenge we seek out the oldest, biggest tree we can find in the local parks and work out how to play with it.
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Playing out after school with kids in Autumn
How do you get the kids playing outside when the nights are drawing in? We explore the local shrubland; play hide and seek in the dark, in the park; have a conker gathering party; kick stones; feed the baby seagulls in the supermarket car park; try and catch raindrops; go on a bike ride; race…
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The stick! First and best of all toys…
The joy of finding a good stick and some ideas on how to use it. Cutting a stick down and seeing what it becomes. Stick peeling with a vegetable peeler.
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Playing in the woods with kids
We have a go at a woodland walk with a friend and learn a lot. Ideas on how to avoid moaning, channelling energy, spotting issues coming and giving up at the right moment! Then with another friend we find ourselves attempting to enjoy the woods in the pouring rain. Also ‘guess the leaf’ games; making…
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Discovering Porthkerry Country Park with a ten year old
B and I (and sometimes my mum too) are discovering Porthkerry Country Park. Somehow we’d never been here before though it’s close. We try it out for our 200 challenge and realise we’ll be back for more…
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Nature play ideas for Spring in the local park
Playing in the local park and exploring formal gardens. Challenges include feeding the squirrels; playing listening hide and seek; digging in the dirt at Kew Gardens, exploring the Parkland Walk in Crouch End and running away from the responsible adult at Dyffryn Gardens. We find a perfect mix of litter picking, finding ingredients to make…
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Playing in trees with children who are instinctively cautious…
Exploring trees with kids who tend to the cautious side. We discover it’s all about the ‘right’ tree, and bouncing and swinging can be as much fun as climbing.
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The 1st day of the challenge revisited: The Stick Igloo…
On the first day of the 365 Day Nature Play Challenge it was stormy, cold and rainy… so we play with sticks and make what I would call a den but B calls a stick igloo. Almost a hundred days later we revisit the tree and find the sticks still there, though not so den-shaped……
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Playing at being witches outside…
Fun with B’s ‘potions’ school topic. A long way from Halloween we search for potions ingredients, then do that again with a friend in Spring; we get messy with old pumpkins and look for wands in the woods.