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Every Wilding activity guide on one page, grouped by Practice Key and theme. Pick a Key, then click any title to open it.

All Practice Keys925Create culture88Uncover nature's language31Live wilder234Track & ask questions70Imitate nature58Value nature12Awaken your mind's eye17Tell your story7Enjoy your sit spot12Wander5Imaginatively journal21Support nature64Dive into field guides144Open your senses122Map & navigate naturally32Wilding mentoring4Before you begin1Venturing further3

Create culture

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1. 1RESPECT
2. Celebrating nature
3. The ‘Wilding’ cards
4. Wild child game

Ways of being together

1. 2Honouring routine
2. 3Silent walk
3. 4Returning natural objects to their home
4. 5Thank-you tangle

Exploring nature connectedness

1. 6Baseline quiz
2. 7Nature connectedness index
3. 8Then versus now

Making time to know nature & live wilder

1. 9Wild time
2. 10My next small wild habit† coming soon
3. 11Unplug
4. 12Grab bag

Bringing nature indoors

1. 13Nature inside

Collecting natural curiosities

1. 14Nature table
2. 15Making fungal spore prints
3. 16Making a footprint plaster cast
4. 17Cleaning & preserving animal parts
5. 18Cleaning & preserving skulls & bones
6. 19Collecting plant specimens
7. 20Making & using a flower press
8. 21Drying flowers
9. 22Leaf printing
10. 23How to make a leaf skeleton
11. 24Making a bark rubbing
12. 25Making a bark cast
13. 26Preserving feathers
14. 27Nest collecting

Creating a nature library

1. 28‘The Wild’ library / www
2. 29Nature collection
3. 30Leaf collection
4. 31Book of seeds
5. 32Book of feathers

Creating shared spaces

1. 33The home hearth
2. 34Fire circle coming soon
3. 35Mandala
4. 36Remembering space

Shared practices and traditions

1. 37Creating a campfire culture
2. 38Creating a tool culture
3. 39Animal calls
4. 40Grounding stones
5. 41Journey stones
6. 42Wishing stones
7. 43Talking sticks
8. 44Smoke cleansing
9. 45Creating a culture of exchange
10. 46Rites of passage

Celebrating nature

1. 47Celebrating nature: Spring equinox coming soon
2. 48Celebrating nature: Summer solstice coming soon
3. 49Celebrating nature: Autumn equinox coming soon
4. 50Celebrating nature: Winter solstice coming soon

Creative connections

1. 51Stories inspired by nature
2. 52Music inspired by nature
3. 53Songs inspired by nature
4. 54Poetry inspired by nature
5. 55Skits & plays inspired by nature game
6. 56Art inspired by nature

Passing wild wisdom on

1. 57The red fox mentoring compass: Practising ‘be’
2. 58The red fox mentoring compass: Practising ‘notice’ coming soon
3. 59The red fox mentoring compass: Practising ‘wonder’ coming soon
4. 60The red fox mentoring compass: Practising ‘invite’ coming soon

Connecting with people

1. 61Find your community
2. 62Wilding group
3. 63Edible garden club
4. 64Tracking club
5. 65Group bird sit
6. 66Support circle

Art with natural materials

1. 67Making wood ‘cookies’
2. 68Tree spirit
3. 69Making clay prints
4. 70Making a stick frame
5. 71Making an elder pencil
6. 72Making a paintbrush
7. 73Making natural ink
8. 74Making a feather quill pen

Natural sounds & instruments

1. 75Nature sounds & whistles
2. 76Making a sycamore whistle
3. 77Making & using a bullroarer
4. 78Making a kazoo

Natural jewellery

1. 79Flower crowns
2. 80Making beads
3. 81Making a bracelet from natural cordage
4. 82Making a holly touchwood

Natural decorations

1. 83Making a dream catcher
2. 84Making a hanging mobile
3. 85Making a wand
4. 86Making a fat lamp
5. 87Making an incense bundle

Wild games and nature play

1. 88Conker rutting game
2. 89Noughts & crosses game
3. 90Skimming stones
4. 91Nature tricks & magic game

Proposed additions • 20 October 2026

1. 92Making earth-pigment paints coming soon
2. 93Making and using a small stick loom coming soon
3. 94Nature performance coming soon

Traditional games

1. 246Conkers game
2. 248Wild music game

Shared customs

1. 247Worry stones

Uncover nature's language

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The five voices of birds

1. 1My blackbird teacher
2. 2Record the robin
3. 3Bird behaviour matching
4. 4Sensing bird language
5. 5Bird language skits game
6. 6Trouble in the treetops
7. 7Contact
8. 8The wrong answer

Bird alarms

1. 9Alarm matching
2. 10The shapes of bird alarms
3. 11Freeze
4. 12Sentinel game
5. 13The invisible predator
6. 14Finding owls
7. 15Hand feeding a robin
8. 16Attracting birds
9. 17Attracting predators
10. 18Silent movie
11. 19Sit spot silence
12. 20Hunting hawk
13. 21Focused vision
14. 22Flock game
15. 23Feed me! game
16. 24Fledging

Disturbance & concentric rings

1. 25Baseline before and after† coming soon
2. 26Invisibility
3. 27Concentric rings
4. 28Blindfold drum stalk game
5. 29Ploughing the hedge
6. 30Learning dog language
7. 31Where is the cat?
8. 32There’s a dog coming

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Knots, hitches & bends

1. 1The right knot for the job
2. 2Coiling a line
3. 3Tying a bowline
4. 4Tying a round turn & two half hitches
5. 5Tying an adjustable guy line hitch
6. 6Using a Prussik hitch in a tarp shelter design
7. 7Tying an Evenk hitch
8. 8Tying a taut tarp hitch
9. 9Tying a timber hitch
10. 10Tying a clove hitch
11. 11Tying a sheet bend
12. 12Tying a figure of 8 knot
13. 13Tying a common whipping knot

Lashings

1. 14Tying a square lashing

Shelter and sleeping outdoors

1. 15Positioning a shelter
2. 16Putting up a shelter pole
3. 17The right shelter for the job

Tarps

1. 18Erecting a lean-to tarp shelter
2. 19Erecting a high tarp shelter
3. 20Erecting an ‘A’ frame tarp shelter
4. 21Erecting a hammock diamond tarp shelter

Hammocks

1. 22Putting up & using a hammock
2. 23Building a debris shelter
3. 24Mini debris shelter

Fire

1. 25The ‘fire keeper’ game
2. 26The right fire for the job game
3. 27‘Wild’ fire

Fire lighting and fire lays

1. 28Positioning a fire
2. 29Finding natural tinder
3. 30Making a tinder bundle
4. 31Which wood?
5. 32Locating & gathering dry kindling & wood fuel
6. 33The wet log fire challenge
7. 34Using matches
8. 35Find something you can light with a match
9. 36Using a ferrocerium rod & steel
10. 37Using a flint & steel striker
11. 38Using the sun as a source of ignition
12. 39Making an ember with a bow drill fire lighting set
13. 40Making an ember with a hand drill fire lighting set
14. 41Transforming an ember into a flame
15. 42Lighting a fire
16. 43Lighting a fire upside down
17. 44Lighting a fire in the wind
18. 45Lighting a fire with children
19. 46Fire tending
20. 47The 5-minute fire
21. 48Laying & using a star fire
22. 49Laying & using a V fire
23. 50Laying & using a criss-cross fire
24. 51Laying & using a long log fire
25. 52Building a stealthy fire
26. 53Transporting a fire
27. 54Closing down a fire

Wood fuelled stoves

1. 55Using a storm kettle
2. 56Using a solo stove
3. 57Using a rocket stove

Tools

1. 58Selecting the right tool for the job
2. 59Handling & using a pair of secateurs
3. 60Handling & using a pair of loppers
4. 61Handling a folding handsaw
5. 62Cross cutting with a folding handsaw
6. 63Cross cutting with a bow saw
7. 64Assembling & cross cutting with a folding buck saw
8. 65Getting to know a sheath knife
9. 66Holding a knife
10. 67Passing a knife to another person
11. 68Getting to know a small camp axe
12. 69Handling a small camp axe

Techniques for cutting & carving with a sheath knife

1. 70Batoning with a sheath knife
2. 71Splitting wood along it’s grain with a knife in reversed grip
3. 72Using a knife in a forehand /fist grip to chamfer or point
4. 73Chest lever technique with a knife
5. 74Thumb push & pivot techniques
6. 75Shin pull technique
7. 76Wrist push technique
8. 77Thumb pull technique
9. 78Reinforced pull technique

Practical applications of cutting & carving techniques

1. 79Carving a notch with a sheath knife
2. 80Making a depression with a sheath knife
3. 81Making a hole with a sheath knife
4. 82Cutting line with a sheath knife

Techniques for cutting & carving with a small camp axe

1. 83Splitting wood with a small camp axe
2. 84Splitting wood with a small camp axe & mallet
3. 85Carving with a small camp axe
4. 86Carving with a crook knife

Tool care & maintenance

1. 87Sharpening & caring for a sheath knife
2. 88Sharpening & caring for a small camp axe
3. 89Sharpening & caring for a crook knife

Gathering natural materials

1. 90A fair share check† coming soon
2. 91Gathering foliage & flowers
3. 92Gathering plant stems
4. 93Coppicing a small diameter green wood stem
5. 94Pruning a branch
6. 95Gathering common edible nuts
7. 95Gathering common edible nuts coming soon
8. 96Gathering common edible berries
9. 96Gathering common edible berries coming soon
10. 97Gathering plant & tree roots
11. 98Harvesting tree sap
12. 99Gathering clay

Processing natural materials

1. 100Extracting the outer fibres from a common nettle
2. 101Extracting the outer fibres from a bramble stem
3. 102Removing the inner bark from a willow stem
4. 103Splitting & storing tree roots
5. 104Making a withy
6. 105Preparing acorns for consumption

Edible plants and tree parts

1. 106Making wild tea
2. 107Making a wild salad
3. 108Making wild pesto
4. 109Making nettle soup
5. 110Making a nettle omelette coming soon
6. 111Making nettle crisps
7. 112Making a nettle burger
8. 113Making dandelion syrup
9. 114Making elderflower fritters
10. 114Making wild flower fritters coming soon
11. 115Making elderflower cordial
12. 116Cooking burdock & dandelion roots
13. 117Making a seed & nut bar
14. 118Making wild flour
15. 119Making a coffee substitute
16. 120Making a fruit leather
17. 121Making an apple & blackberry crumble
18. 121Making an apple & blackberry crumble coming soon

Ethnobotany & crafts

1. 110Making a nettle omelette
2. 227Making wild garlic butter
3. 228Making blackberry jam
4. 229Making rosehip syrup
5. 262Making fruit leather

Traditional first aid and medicinal plant uses

1. 122Natural first aid dressings
2. 123Making a plant salve

Practical uses of natural materials

1. 124Making charcloth tinder
2. 125Making a feather stick fire lighter
3. 126Making wood shaving & wax fire lighters
4. 127Making charcoal
5. 128Making resin glue
6. 129Making natural dye

Plant uses for health and hygiene

1. 130Making wild soap
2. 131Making a toothbrush & toothpick

Cordage, baskets, mats & containers

1. 132Plaiting fibres to make cordage
2. 133Making a bramble stem basket
3. 134Making a natural mat
4. 135Making a bark container
5. 136Making clay pots

Woodcraft

1. 137“I am a stick”
2. 138“Peeling a stick”
3. 139How to make a “try” stick

Wooden tools

1. 140Making & using a small splitting wedge
2. 141Making & using a digging stick
3. 142Making a wooden mallet
4. 143Making an improvised bow saw
5. 144Making & using a palm drill
6. 145Making a ferrocerium rod & striker
7. 146Making a bow drill friction fire lighting set
8. 147Making a hand drill friction fire lighting set
9. 148Making an ember blower

Useful campcraft items

1. 149Making a ‘tippy tap’
2. 150Making a clothes peg
3. 151Making a small tent peg
4. 152Making a large peg
5. 153Making a candle holder
6. 154Making a rush light
7. 155Making a bark water filter
8. 156Making a crook knife case

Cooking & eating utensils

1. 157Making tongs
2. 158Making a butter spreader
3. 159Making a spatula
4. 160Making a wooden spoon
5. 161Making a bowl coming soon
6. 162Making a burnt bowl
7. 163Making a whisk
8. 164Making a chopping board

Cooking methods and equipment

1. 165Cooking in the embers
2. 166Cooking on a hot rock
3. 167Making a plank & cooking on it
4. 168Making & using a pot hook
5. 169Making & using a simple pot hanger
6. 170Making & using an adjustable pot hanging system
7. 171Making & using a tripod
8. 172Making & cooking with a skewer
9. 173Making & cooking with a cleft stick frame
10. 174Making & using a campfire grill
11. 175Cooking on & caring for a griddle
12. 176Using a cast iron camp oven
13. 177Seasoning cast iron pans & ovens
14. 178Making & using a ground oven

Recipes and drinks

1. 179Making damper bread
2. 180Making flat bread
3. 181Making fire bread
4. 182Cooking an egg
5. 183Cooking fish
6. 184Making bannock
7. 185Making Scotch pancakes
8. 186Baking bread
9. 187Making pizza
10. 188Steaming vegetables
11. 189Cooking apples

Keeping safe outdoors

1. 190Change the plan† coming soon
2. 191Preparing an emergency action plan

Weather and exposure

1. 192What’s the weather?
2. 193Cloud matching
3. 194The sun coming soon
4. 195Shade
5. 196The cold coming soon
6. 197The wind coming soon
7. 198Estimating wind speed & the risk
8. 199Lightning coming soon
9. 200How far away is that lightning?
10. 201Precipitation coming soon
11. 202Predicting rain

Finding and treating drinking water

1. 203Finding wild water in natural spaces
2. 204Making wild water safe to drink

Outdoor hygiene

1. 205Hand washing in the wild
2. 206When nature calls!

Biting and stinging animals

1. 207Checking for ticks

Safety around water

1. 208Water safety
2. 208Water safety coming soon

Plants that scratch or sting

1. 209Handling plants & trees that scratch & sting

Tree safety

1. 210Visual tree assessment
2. 211Tricky trees

Poisonous species

1. 212Fungi pizza game

Map reading

1. 213Understanding map symbols & legends
2. 214Reading contours & understanding elevation
3. 215Using grid references
4. 216Scaling a map
5. 217Orientating a map

Route planning

1. 218How to plan a journey

Practical navigation

1. 219Using natural & unnatural handrails
2. 220Calculating distance travelled using pacing
3. 221Getting to know a compass
4. 222Using a compass to take & follow a bearing
5. 223Using a compass to work out the direction of a slope
6. 224Sight lining
7. 225what3words

Proposed additions • 20 October 2026

1. 226Weaving a willow plant support coming soon
2. 227Making wild garlic butter coming soon
3. 228Making blackberry jam coming soon
4. 229Making rosehip syrup coming soon
5. 230Making a bean and vegetable stew coming soon
6. 231Making campfire popcorn coming soon
7. 232Baking chocolate-orange cakes coming soon

Campfire recipes & drinks

1. 230Making a bean and vegetable stew
2. 231Making campfire popcorn
3. 232Baking chocolate-orange cakes

Tools and making

1. 250Making a saw horse
2. 251Carving pacing toggles
3. 261Making a leather tinder pouch

Shelter

1. 252Erecting a group tarp
2. 253Rigging a parachute shelter

Ancestral crafts

1. 254Carving a wooden needle
2. 255Carving a wooden fish hook

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Track & ask questions

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Tracking tools & technology

1. 1Making track traps
2. 2Making a footprint tracking tunnel
3. 3Track tracer
4. 4How to make a tracking stick
5. 5How to use a tracking stick
6. 6CyberTracker

Questioning

1. 7Questions, questions & yet more questions
2. 8Curiosity & connection
3. 9The lost world

Tracking methodology

1. 10The 6 arts of tracking
2. 11Tracking stations

Reading wildlife footprints

1. 12Best guess
2. 13Track drawings
3. 14Track detective
4. 15Which foot?
5. 16Bird footprint matching
6. 17Bird footprint detective
7. 18Mammal track matching
8. 19Fingertip tracking
9. 20Tracking ghosts game

Reading human tracks and signs

1. 21CSI human
2. 22Human tracks
3. 23Tracking expedition

Reading other wildlife signs

1. 24Large signs of life
2. 25Smaller signs of life
3. 26Home
4. 27Hole / nest detective
5. 28Nut & seed detective
6. 29Browse or chew mark detective
7. 30Which tool?
8. 31Cone detective
9. 32Browse connections
10. 33Scat detective
11. 34Whose poo? game
12. 35Mammal hair detective
13. 36Feather detective
14. 37Moult or meal?
15. 38Skull & bone detective
16. 39Bird pellet detective
17. 40Ancestor hunt
18. 41Bone lucky dip
19. 42Jigsaw

Interpreting tracks and movement

1. 43Movement movie
2. 44Track pattern & gait
3. 45Track storytelling
4. 46Gait imitation
5. 47Following footsteps
6. 48Making & using track training pits
7. 49Which way?
8. 50Track me

Ageing tracks and signs

1. 51Aging tracks
2. 52Aging other signs

Trailing

1. 53Predictive trailing
2. 54Systematic trailing
3. 5550 tracks in a row
4. 56Log trailing game
5. 57Flour trailing game
6. 58Footprint flour trailing

Tracking patterns and connections

1. 59Shoreline stories† coming soon
2. 60Tracking insects
3. 61Tracking snail trails
4. 62Tracking plants
5. 63Tracking nature’s connections
6. 64Tracking the seasons
7. 65Tracking yourself
8. 66Ecological tracking
9. 67Tracking trees
10. 68Tracking birds by sign & sound
11. 69Tracking through time & space
12. 70Reading water patterns coming soon

Treasure hunts

1. 240Signs of life treasure hunt game

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Imitate nature

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Animal forms and movement

1. 1Animal forms
2. 2Animal imitation game
3. 3Animal match game
4. 4Animal yoga
5. 5Animal parts game
6. 6Animal races game
7. 7Dragonfly
8. 8Charades game
9. 9The fox spot

Camouflage and blending with the baseline

1. 10The 9 S’s of natural camouflage game
2. 11Conservation mission
3. 12Wild in the frame
4. 13Who’s watching whom? game
5. 14Hide
6. 15Blend game
7. 16Raid the roost game
8. 17Creature cover-up game

Shine

1. 18Natural camouflage

Shade

1. 19Step into shade‡ coming soon

Shape

1. 20Making a scrim net

Silhouette

1. 21Campfire scout game

Shadow

1. 22Your shadow arrives first‡ coming soon

Speed

1. 23How do you walk?
2. 24Fox walking
3. 25Snail race game
4. 26The weasel walk
5. 27The wild cat
6. 28The lizard
7. 29The worm
8. 30The heron
9. 31Be still practising freezing to sounds & movements & feelings coming soon
10. 32Deer stalk game
11. 33Lynx stalks deer game
12. 34Deer sneakers game
13. 35Tiptoe to treasure game
14. 36The hush rush game

Scent

1. 37Smell like nature

Sound

1. 38Ssssh
2. 39Sound camouflage
3. 40Rain music statues game
4. 41Stoat & vole game

Spirit

1. 42What’s on your mind?
2. 43Deer walking
3. 44Ambush game

Animal behaviour games

1. 45Predator’s path game
2. 46Predator & prey game
3. 47Wolves & deer game
4. 48Night predator game
5. 49Goshawk & squirrel game
6. 50Cache game
7. 51Nest robbers game
8. 52Flock (sparrow hawk game) coming soon
9. 53Fight or flight game
10. 54Silent hunter game
11. 55Fire in ‘the Wild’ game
12. 56Run rabbit, run game
13. 57Photo dash game
14. 58Pronking
15. 59Capture the flag game
16. 60Beak game
17. 61Pheromone trail
18. 62Viewpoint (chalk on tree) coming soon

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Value nature

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Living with gratitude

1. 1A place I care about† coming soon
2. 2Gratitude activity
3. 3“Thank you”
4. 4Gratitude scavenger hunt
5. 5Wild tea gratitude
6. 6Kinship
7. 7Intention
8. 8The heart of nature

Living with love and reverence

1. 9Once upon a stone
2. 10Tender touch
3. 11Scentimental
4. 12Reverence

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Awaken your mind's eye

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Visual memory and observation

1. 1Awaken your mind’s eye
2. 2Mind’s eye imagination
3. 3Mind’s eye sketching
4. 4Awareness
5. 5Unique
6. 6Leaf identity parade game
7. 7Meet a tree
8. 8Journaling from field guides
9. 9Photographic memory game
10. 10Wild memory challenge game
11. 11Guided imagery

Imagination and possibilities

1. 12Tree imagery
2. 13Imagine
3. 14Mystery animal story
4. 15Map your home
5. 16Time machine
6. 17Flying kites

Tell your story

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1. 1Tell your story
2. 2Sharing the story
3. 3Sharing circle
4. 5Back garden shared
5. 6Interview
6. 7Stories with stones

Getting started with nature journalling

1. 4Same but different

Enjoy your sit spot

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1. 1Wilding from where I am† coming soon
2. 2Sit spot
3. 3Indoor sit spot
4. 4Still hunting
5. 5Fawns and foxes game
6. 6Hide & seek game
7. 7Birds nests & foxes game
8. 8Sit spot trail
9. 9Group sit spot
10. 10Be alone with a tree
11. 11Hide
12. 12Badger watching
13. 13Squirrel watching

Proposed additions • 20 October 2026

1. 13Snorkel spot coming soon

Wander

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1. 1Lynx radar
2. 2Be a tourist
3. 3“I lost my stone!” game
4. 4Medicine wander
5. 5Wonder wander

Imaginatively journal

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Getting started with nature journalling

1. 1Observations
2. 2Scaling coming soon
3. 3Creative journaling
4. 4The same but different
5. 5Zoom lens
6. 6Illustrating data
7. 7Diagrammatic drawing
8. 8Poetic journaling
9. 9Line journaling

Drawing techniques

1. 10Warm up
2. 11Gesture drawing
3. 12Perspectives
4. 13Detailed drawing
5. 14Shadows

Types of nature journal

1. 15One place through a year† coming soon
2. 16Sit spot journal
3. 17Tree journal
4. 18Journaling from the ground up
5. 19Tracking journal
6. 20Ethogram
7. 21Phenology
8. 22Exploring special places
9. 23Sunset watch

Support nature

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Everyday care

1. 1Take 3 for nature
2. 2Truly helpful
3. 3Litter hunt
4. 4Litter yoga
5. 5Leave it be
6. 6Diversity

Supporting invertebrates

1. 7Making a beetle bucket
2. 8Making a leaf habitat
3. 9Making a bug hotel
4. 10Making a solitary bee home
5. 11Making a bumble bee box
6. 12Making a bee nest
7. 13Making a bee scrape
8. 14Making a bee watering station

Creating and connecting habitats

1. 15Making compost
2. 16Making a wormery
3. 17Creating a deadwood habitat
4. 18Making a log wall
5. 19Making a hibernaculum
6. 20Making a small wildlife pond
7. 21Creating wildlife highways (hedgehog holes etc) coming soon
8. 21Making a hedgehog highway
9. 22Making a dead hedge

Growing plants for wildlife

1. 23Planning a butterfly & bee garden
2. 24Gathering seeds from plants & trees
3. 25Welly magic
4. 26Making & gifting a ‘seed gratitude ball’
5. 27Growing a pollinator habitat from seeds
6. 28Growing a pollinator habitat with plant plugs
7. 29Taking & growing cuttings
8. 30Splitting plants
9. 31Growing a small tree sapling
10. 32Planting a sapling in the ground
11. 33Planting & maintaining a wildlife hedgerow

Supporting mammals

1. 34Making a hedgehog home
2. 35Making a bat home
3. 36Creating a garden watering hole
4. 37Making a mammal table

Protecting established trees and local nature

1. 38Protect a tree
2. 39Conserve
3. 40Nature legacy

Supporting birds

1. 41Window warnings
2. 42Sharing the garden with birds
3. 43Providing nesting materials
4. 44Making & maintaining a bird bath
5. 45Providing food for birds
6. 46Making a bird feeder
7. 46Making a bird feeder coming soon
8. 47Maintaining a bird feeder
9. 48Building & positioning a blue tit nesting box
10. 49Building & positioning a robin nesting box
11. 50Building & positioning a swift home
12. 51Maintaining a bird nesting box
13. 52Making a bird roosting pocket

Habitats and ecological care

1. 53Did our help help† coming soon

Wildlife surveys and recording

1. 54The big bug count
2. 55The UK ladybird survey
3. 56The big butterfly count
4. 57Mammal map app
5. 58Bioblitz
6. 59Become a citizen scientist
7. 60Using iNaturalist
8. 61How to do a dead wood survey
9. 62BTO Bird Track
10. 63BTO Garden BirdWatch
11. 64RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
12. 65Bird count

Dive into field guides

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Using field guides and identification aids

1. 1Range maps
2. 2Using ID apps
3. 3Visual match field guides
4. 4Flow chart field guides
5. 5Quick reference field guides
6. 6Deep dive field guides

Learning from guides and local knowledge

1. 7Field guide thumbing
2. 8Elders
3. 9Lore
4. 10Words from the woods
5. 11Know your neighbours
6. 12Field guide 5
7. 13Field guide treasure hunt game
8. 14All about me game

Building a local species list

1. 15Local species list

Finding wildlife and its habitats

1. 16Have a guess
2. 17Hedges & other edges
3. 18Where do invertebrates hang out?
4. 19Where do fungi hang out?
5. 20Where do amphibians hang out?
6. 21Where do reptiles hang out?
7. 22Where do mammals hang out?
8. 23Where do plants hang out?
9. 24Where do trees hang out?
10. 25Where do birds hang out?
11. 26Ask a local

Nature exploration equipment

1. 27How to set up & use a pocket microscope
2. 28How to use a hand lens
3. 29How to set up & use close up binoculars
4. 30How to set up & use binoculars
5. 31How to use a field scope
6. 32Setting up a trail camera
7. 33Using a bat detector
8. 34Photographing wildlife
9. 35Using night vision aids

scratch or sting

1. 36Meeting poisonous plants & trees

Fungi

1. 37Fungi scavenger hunt
2. 38Fungi families

Invertebrates

1. 39Beetle tag game
2. 40Recycling the wild
3. 41Hunting in hidden habitats
4. 42How to make & use a pitfall trap
5. 43How to make an earwig trap
6. 44How to make a pooter
7. 45How to use a pooter
8. 46Using a sweep net
9. 47Spiders web hunt
10. 48Using a soft brush & spoon
11. 49Having a closer look
12. 49Having a closer look (containers, trays) coming soon
13. 50How to identify an invertebrate
14. 51Gall hunt
15. 51Gall hunt coming soon
16. 52Exploring galls
17. 53Stalking a butterfly
18. 54How to identify a butterfly
19. 55Flight pattern & paths
20. 56How to make & use a moth trap
21. 57How to attract moths by sugaring
22. 58How to identify a moth
23. 59Attraction
24. 60Light and moths observation journal† coming soon
25. 61Making a beating tray
26. 62Exploring the understory
27. 63The hungry centipede game

Reptiles and freshwater wildlife

1. 64Reptile hunting
2. 65Pond dipping

Exploring mammals

1. 66Bat walk
2. 67Nature names
3. 68Who am I? game
4. 69Name that neighbour game
5. 70The animal activity game
6. 71Animal tag game
7. 72Animal clue relay game
8. 73Nutty navigators game

Exploring herbaceous plants

1. 74Looking for plant patterns
2. 75Pot plant
3. 76Plant families
4. 77Looking at plant stems
5. 78Finding edible & poisonous lookalikes
6. 79Life cycle
7. 80Plant pattern hunt
8. 81Leaf jigsaw game

Reading habitats and ecological connections

1. 82Lichen hunt
2. 83Moss hunt
3. 84What’s in wild water?
4. 85Soil profile
5. 86Plant connections
6. 87Plant succession crawl
7. 88Jay the Jay
8. 89Food chain game
9. 90Fact or flap? game
10. 91How to do a line transect
11. 92Woodland layers
12. 93Nature’s network
13. 94Habitat game
14. 95How to make a jar terrarium
15. 96Webbing
16. 97Apex
17. 98Your community shared
18. 99Broken leaf
19. 100Where is ‘away’?
20. 101How to measure rainfall

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1. 102Getting to know a leaf
2. 134Getting to know a bird
3. Sieves
4. Spoon or straw?

Exploring trees and woody plants

1. 103Needles
2. 104Bark matching game
3. 105How to identify a tree by its leaves
4. 106Meet a new tree neighbour
5. 107How to identify a tree
6. 108Winter tree identification
7. 109Introduce a tree
8. 110Find this tree
9. 111Tree tag game
10. 112Identification activity game
11. 113Tree bingo game
12. 114Tree faces
13. 115Tree silhouettes game
14. 116Log match game
15. 117Heartbeat of a tree
16. 118How old is this tree?
17. 119Measuring a tree
18. 120Dispersal
19. 121Berry scavenger hunt
20. 121Berry scavenger hunt coming soon
21. 122Wind dancers

Exploring birds

1. 123The familiar 5
2. 124Birding by ear
3. 125Visualising bird song
4. 126Bird audio game
5. 127Bird song matching
6. 128Dawn chorus
7. 129Bird song ensemble
8. 130How to identify a bird using GISS
9. 131How to identify a bird using field marks
10. 132Silhouettes in the sky
11. 133Flight patterns
12. 135Seasonal bird feeder
13. 136Nest
14. 137Nest building
15. 138Territories

Seashore animals and shells

1. 139Rockpooling
2. 140Crabbing
3. 142Shell scavenger hunt
4. 142Shells coming soon

Proposed additions • 20 October 2026

1. 139Rockpooling coming soon
2. 140Crabbing coming soon

Coastal plants and seaweeds

1. 141Seaweed hunt
2. 141Seaweeds coming soon

Seasons

1. 243Signs of spring

Open your senses

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Arriving & becoming present

1. 1Reminder
2. 2The present moment

Focused vision

1. 3One small window‡ coming soon

Wide angled vision

1. 4Owl eyes
2. 5Nature’s dance
3. 6Follow the leader game
4. 7Buzzard eye game
5. 8Mobbing game
6. 9Following an insect
7. 10Insect flight patterns coming soon

Visual searching

1. 11Look up
2. 12Look down
3. 13Scanning
4. 14Dead space
5. 15Awareness hide game
6. 16Awareness trail game
7. 17It’s all a matter of perspective
8. 18Movie camera
9. 19Perspective
10. 20Under nature’s blanket
11. 21Nature’s art gallery
12. 22Camera game
13. 23Mirror walks
14. 24A metre square
15. 25Mouse view
16. 26Micro-journey
17. 27Another world
18. 28Eagle eye

Colour

1. 29Natural colours
2. 30Shades of green
3. 31Eye to eye

Noticing shape & pattern

1. 32Shape matching game
2. 33Fibonacci sequence coming soon
3. 34Wild skeletons
4. 35The green wall

Magnification

1. 36I spy game
2. 37Small world safari
3. 38Nature’s show

Using light

1. 39Lighting
2. 40Slide show

Low light vision

1. 41Campfire stalk game
2. 42Light keeper game
3. 43Night world
4. 44Night vision
5. 45Dusk walk

Noticing changes

1. 46Spot the difference
2. 47Seasonal change
3. 48Signs of the season
4. 49Autumn’s rainbow

Focused listening

1. 50Deer ears
2. 51Drum stalk game
3. 52Pin drop game
4. 53Spectrogram
5. 54Seeker game
6. 55Sound shakers game
7. 56Tree songs
8. 57Owls & mice game
9. 58Owls & voles game
10. 59Two ears are better than one
11. 60The echo detective
12. 61Echo chase game
13. 62Echolocation
14. 63Night noises game
15. 64Rabbit in headlights game

Peripheral listening

1. 65I can hear
2. 66Soundscape
3. 67Song of the season
4. 68Wild symphony

Using touch

1. 69Squirrel touch game
2. 70Blindfold recognition of leaves game
3. 71My stick game
4. 72Blindfold plaster casts game
5. 73Barefoot walking
6. 74Pocket friends
7. 75Sensory tree ID game
8. 76Deer stalk coming soon
9. 77Blindfold earth walk
10. 78Caterpillar walk
11. 79Snail trail
12. 80Blindfold trail
13. 81Blindfold drum stalk?? coming soon

Noticing texture

1. 82Natural texture scavenger hunt game
2. 83Bark texture trail
3. 84Tickle, prickle, guess! game

Noticing temperature

1. 85A temperature trail‡ coming soon

Awaken your sense of smell

1. 86Badger nose game
2. 87Scent slide show game
3. 88I can smell… scent sacks
4. 89A noseful of nature
5. 90Scentsational discoveries
6. 91Hand washing
7. 92Scent of place
8. 93Smell scavenger hunt

Scent tracking

1. 94Badger trail game
2. 95House smells
3. 96Scent trail
4. 97Wild cat territories game
5. 98Moth trail game
6. 99Sniff and seek game
7. 100Follow your nose game

Awaken your sense of taste

1. 101Adder tongue game
2. 102Mindful chewing
3. 103Wild tea tasting
4. 104Edible walk

Awaken your sense of body awareness

1. 105Dormouse balance

Exploring intuition and checking impressions

1. 106Who’s watching us? game
2. 107Intuition game
3. 108Xray vision game
4. 109Intuition game game
5. 110Silent predator game
6. 111Spot the hair game
7. 112Toxic or tasty game
8. 113Gut instinct game

Sensory meditation and mindfulness

1. 114One-minute sponge
2. 115Sense meditation
3. 116The sacred silence
4. 117Nature meditations
5. 118Mindful walking
6. 1195, 4, 3, 2, 1

Combining the senses

1. 120More than one

Expanding awareness

1. 1211, 2, 3 where are you? game

Sensory memory

1. 122Remember this place‡ coming soon

More sensory exploration

1. 123Sensory challenge coming soon
2. 124Sensory scavenger hunt
3. 125Same walk, different senses
4. 126Baseline
5. 127Blindfold training

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Mapping your place

1. 1Get to know your patch† coming soon
2. 2Map your world
3. 3Mapping activity
4. 4Scavenger hunt
5. 5Direction mapping
6. 6Map your sit spot
7. 7Aerial map
8. 8Journal maps
9. 9Sound map
10. 10Treasure hunt game
11. 11Song-lines
12. 12Song-line treasure map game
13. 13Journey stick
14. 14Habitat map
15. 15X marks my spot game
16. 16Exploration group
17. 17Compass creations
18. 18Bird’s eye view mapping
19. 19Place names we make up

Natural navigation

1. 20Finding north
2. 21Natural navigation
3. 22Seasonal sun tracking
4. 23Seasonal sunset & sunrise
5. 24Sundial
6. 25Finding & navigating by the north star
7. 26Navigating by the moon
8. 27Navigating by the constellations
9. 28Moon phase

Finding your way back

1. 29Trail blazing
2. 30Backtracking
3. 31Walking in circles
4. 32Lost
5. 33Found

Wilding mentoring

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1. Practising ‘Be’
2. Practising ‘Invite’
3. Practising ‘Notice’
4. Practising ‘Wonder’

Before you begin

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1. Preparing a risk assessment

Venturing further

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1. Clothing & footwear options
2. Discover a wild space
3. Dream board

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