50 Wild Things to Do at a Wild Party: printable card set
A sample of 4 cards. The full set of 50 comes with the collection. Back
Dive into field guidesAnimal clue relay

Step by step

  1. Mark out a 12 metre rope circle.
  2. Divide your group into groups of 3, and ask each group to position themselves around the outside of the circle with a pencil and paper, introducing themselves to their group.
  3. Place 30 animal clue cards face up in the centre, 6 clue cards for each of 5 animals. Each group sends 1 person to collect a card, bring it back to their group to discuss, then return it and collect another.
  4. After 6 cards have been seen, let the card collector look at each card again before returning it, to help the group firm up their guesses.
  5. Once a group believes they have identified all 5 animals, they report their guesses to a referee. The activity ends once every group has submitted their answers, scoring 1 point for each correct guess and minus 2 for each incorrect one.
The full Wilding activity guide (what you need, safety, variations and questions to wonder about): re-wild.co.uk/g/animal-clue-relay/
50 Wild Things to Do at a Wild Party · re-wild.co.uk
Dive into field guidesAnimal tag

Step by step

  1. Before starting, mark out a large rectangular playing area with 6 markers, with each narrow end acting as a safe zone.
  2. Stand in the centre of the playing area as the tagger. People line up shoulder to shoulder at 1 end and each secretly thinks of an animal without telling anyone else. The tagger asks a yes or no question, such as does your animal have fur. Any person whose answer would be yes runs to the safe area at the other end, trying not to be tagged along the way. Anyone tagged joins the tagger for the rest of the game. The activity continues until every person has been tagged, then everyone shares which animal they had chosen.
The full Wilding activity guide (what you need, safety, variations and questions to wonder about): re-wild.co.uk/g/animal-tag/
50 Wild Things to Do at a Wild Party · re-wild.co.uk
Imitate natureCache

Step by step

  1. Find a suitable open area with clear boundaries.
  2. Gather your group and assign roles such as red squirrel, grey squirrel, jay and red fox, roughly in a ratio of 2 squirrels, one jay and one fox for every 6 people.
  3. Explain the rules. Squirrels are safe from the fox if they touch a tree, which stands for climbing to safety. Jays are safe if they flap their arms 5 times before being tagged, which stands for flying away. The fox tags squirrels or jays to show it has caught them. Describe an autumnal scene with plenty of nuts, seeds and cones, and give the squirrels bags of dried pasta to represent food.
  4. With the foxes and jays watching, ask the squirrels to hide their food in piles of 3 to 20 pieces, tucked under leaves or in tree cavities.
  5. Once caching is done, describe a winter scene and set the squirrels off to search for their caches, keeping anything they find, including piles hidden by other squirrels. The jays can now steal cached food, and the hungry fox can hunt both squirrels and jays, with tagged animals returning to the start.
The full Wilding activity guide (what you need, safety, variations and questions to wonder about): re-wild.co.uk/g/cache/
50 Wild Things to Do at a Wild Party · re-wild.co.uk
Imitate natureBeak

Step by step

  1. Before the session, scatter items representing food, such as empty shells and bean bags for worms or slugs, around a defined playing area.
  2. Gather your group and divide them into smaller groups, each imagining they are a songbird foraging for their newly hatched family.
  3. Demonstrate how to use a beak by holding 1 stick in each hand and using them together to pick up food.
  4. Ask each group to find a bucket just outside the playing area to represent their nest, and line up behind it.
  5. When the activity begins, the first person in each line picks up their sticks, ventures into the playing area, and tries to pick up food with their beak to carry back to the nest, before the next person in line takes their turn. Each group finishes once every member has delivered food to the nest.
  6. Afterwards, discuss which beak shape would suit different food types best.
The full Wilding activity guide (what you need, safety, variations and questions to wonder about): re-wild.co.uk/g/beak/
50 Wild Things to Do at a Wild Party · re-wild.co.uk