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All Practice Keys885Create culture64Uncover nature's language33Live wilder184Track & ask questions69Imitate nature58Value nature11Awaken your mind's eye17Tell your story7Enjoy your sit spot9Wander5Imaginatively journal22Support nature61Dive into field guides147Open your senses123Map & navigate naturally33Wilding mentoring6Before you begin16Venturing further20

Create culture

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‘How to be’

1. 2Returning natural objects to their home
2. 3Cord of respect?

Making time to know nature & live wilder

1. 5Wild time
2. 6Unplug

Overcoming barriers

1. 7Bug out bag

Bringing nature inside

1. 8Nature inside

Collecting natural curiosities

1. 9Nature table

Creating a nature library

1. 11‘The Wild’ library / www
2. 12Nature collections
3. 13Leaf collection
4. 14Book of seeds
5. 15Book of feathers

Creating a place to connect with people

1. 17The home hearth
2. 19Remembering space
3. 24Mandala

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1. 18Campfire culture
2. 57Exchange
3. 70Wild child game

Other cultural practices

1. 20Smoke cleansing
2. 21Creating a tool culture
3. 25Talking stick
4. 53Animal calls
5. 54Grounding Stone
6. 55Journey stone
7. 56Wishing stone

Creative connections

1. 22Stories inspired by nature
2. 26Music inspired by nature
3. 27Songs inspired by nature
4. 28Skits & plays inspired by nature game
5. 29Art inspired by nature

Living with love & reference

1. 30Stories in stones?

Art & crafts using natural materials

1. 31Making wood ‘cookies’
2. 32Tree spirit
3. 33Making clay prints
4. 34Making a stick frame
5. 35Making an elder pencil
6. 36Making a paintbrush
7. 37Making natural ink
8. 38Making a feather quill pen

Natural sounds & instruments

1. 39Nature sounds & whistles
2. 40Making a sycamore whistle
3. 41Making & using a bullroarer
4. 42Making a kazoo

Natural jewellery

1. 43Flower crowns
2. 44Making beads
3. 45Making a bracelet from natural cordage
4. 46Making a holly touchwood

Natural decorations

1. 47Making a dream catcher
2. 48Making a hanging mobile
3. 49Making a wand
4. 50Making a fat lamp
5. 51Making clay pots
6. 52Making an incense bundle

Celebrating nature

1. 58Celebrating nature
2. 59Rite of passage

Wild games, tricks & nature play

1. 61Conker rutting game
2. 62Noughts & crosses game
3. 63Skimming stones
4. 64Nature tricks & magic game

Connecting with people

1. 65Find your community
2. 66Wilding group
3. 67Edible garden club
4. 68Tracking club
5. 69Support circle

Uncover nature's language

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The 5 voices of birds

1. 1My blackbird teacher
2. 2Record the robin
3. 6Bird behaviour matching
4. 8Bird language skits game
5. 9Bird language scenarios game
6. 10Contact
7. 11The wrong answer

Bird alarms

1. 3Feed me! game
2. 4Fledging game
3. 12Alarm matching
4. 13The shapes of bird alarms
5. 14Freeze
6. 15Sentinel
7. 16The invisible predator
8. 17Silent movie
9. 18Hunting hawk
10. 19Focused vision
11. 21Finding owls
12. 29Hand feeding a robin
13. 31Sit spot silence
14. 32Attracting birds
15. 33Attracting predators
16. 34Flock game

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1. 5Baseline
2. 7Sensing bird language

Disturbance & concentric rings

1. 22Invisibility
2. 23Concentric rings
3. 24Blindfold drum stalk game
4. 25Ploughing the hedge game
5. 26Learning dog language
6. 27Where is the cat?
7. 28There’s a dog coming

Connecting with people

1. 30Group bird sit

Live wilder

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Shelter

1. 1Building a debris shelter
2. 2Mini-debris shelter
3. 17Positioning a shelter
4. 18Putting up a shelter pole
5. 19The right shelter for the job
6. 20Erecting a lean-to tarp shelter
7. 21Erecting a high tarp shelter
8. 22Erecting an ‘A’ frame tarp shelter
9. 23Erecting a hammock diamond tarp shelter
10. 24Putting up & using a hammock

Knots, hitches, bends & lashings

1. 3The right knot for the job
2. 4Coiling a line
3. 5Tying a bowline
4. 6Tying a round turn & two half hitches
5. 7Tying a adjustable guy line hitch
6. 8Using a Prussik hitch in a tarp shelter design
7. 9Tying an evenk hitch
8. 10Tying a taut tarp hitch
9. 11Tying a timber hitch
10. 12Tying a clove hitch
11. 13Tying a sheet bend
12. 14Tying a figure of 8 knot
13. 15Tying a common whipping knot
14. 16Tying a square lashing

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1. 25The ‘fire keeper’
2. 140Making a nettle burger
3. 145Using wild edible roots
4. 146Using edible nuts & seeds
5. 184Cooking apples
6. Lighting an upside down fire
7. Making a ‘try’ stick

Fire

1. 26The right fire for the job
2. 27Wild fire!
3. 28Positioning a fire
4. 29Finding natural tinder
5. 30Making a tinder bundle
6. 31Which wood?
7. 32Locating & gathering dry kindling & wood fuel
8. 33The wet log fire challenge
9. 34Using a match
10. 35Find something you can light with a match
11. 36Using a ferrocerium rod & steel
12. 37Using a flint & steel striker
13. 38Using the sun as a source of ignition
14. 39Making an ember With a bow drill friction fire lighting kit
15. 40Making an ember with a hand drill fire lighting set
16. 41Transforming an ember into a flame
17. 42Lighting a fire
18. 44Lighting a fire in the wind
19. 45Lighting a fire with children
20. 46Fire tending
21. 47The 5-minute fire
22. 48Laying & using a star fire
23. 49Laying a using a V fire
24. 50Laying & using a criss-cross fire
25. 51Laying & using a long-log fire
26. 52Building a stealthy fire
27. 53Transporting fire
28. 54Closing down a fire
29. 55Using a storm kettle
30. 56Using a solo stove
31. 57Using a rocket stove

Ethnobotany & crafts

1. 58Making charcloth tinder
2. 59Making a feather stick fire lighter
3. 60Making wood shaving & wax fire lighters
4. 61Making charcoal
5. 122Gathering foliage & flowers
6. 123Gathering plant stems
7. 124Coppicing a small diameter green wood stem
8. 125Pruning a branch
9. 126Gathering nuts & berries
10. 127Berry hunt game
11. 128Gathering plant & tree roots
12. 129Gathering tree sap
13. 130Gathering clay
14. 131Extracting outer plant fibres from common nettles
15. 132Extracting the outer fibres from a bramble stem
16. 133Removing the outer & inner bark from a tree branch or stem
17. 134Splitting tree roots
18. 135Making a withy
19. 136Preparing acorns for consumption
20. 137Making wild tea
21. 138Using wild edible leaves & flowers in salads
22. 141Making nettle soup
23. 143Dandelion syrup
24. 144Elderflower cordial
25. 147Making wild flour
26. 148Making a coffee substitute
27. 149Using edible fruits & berries
28. 150Using edible tree sap
29. 151Natural first aid dressings
30. 152Making a plant salve
31. 153Making resin glue
32. 154Making natural dye
33. 155Making wild soap
34. 156Making a toothbrush & toothpick
35. 157Plaiting fibres to make cordage
36. 158Making a bramble stem basket
37. 159Making a natural mat
38. 160Making a bark container
39. Making nettle crisps
40. Making wild pesto

Hand tools

1. 62Selecting the right tool for the job
2. 63Handling & using a pair of secateurs
3. 64Handling & using a pair of loppers
4. 65Handling a folding handsaw
5. 66Cross cutting with a folding handsaw
6. 67Cross cutting with a bow saw
7. 68Assembling & cross cutting with a folding bucksaw
8. 69Getting to know a sheath knife
9. 71Passing a knife to another person
10. 72Getting to know a small camp axe
11. 73Handling a small camp axe
12. 74Batoning with a sheath knife
13. 75Splitting wood along it’s grain with a knife in reversed grip
14. 76Using a knife in a forehand /fist grip to chamfer or point
15. 77Chest lever technique with a knife
16. 78Thumb push & pivot techniques
17. 79Shin pull technique
18. 80Wrist push technique
19. 81Thumb pull technique
20. 82Reinforced pull technique
21. 83Carving a notch with a sheath knife
22. 84Making a depression with a sheath knife
23. 85Making a hole with a sheath knife
24. 86Cutting line with a sheath knife
25. 87Splitting wood with a small camp axe
26. 88Splitting wood with a small camp axe & mallet
27. 89Carving with a small camp axe
28. 90Carving with a crook knife
29. 91Sharpening & caring for a sheath knife
30. 92Sharpening & caring for a small camp axe
31. 93Sharpening & caring for a crook knife
32. Holding a knife (grips)

Woodcraft

1. 94“I am a stick”
2. 95“Peeling a stick”
3. 97Making & using a small splitting wedge
4. 98Making & using a digging stick
5. 99Making a wooden mallet
6. 100Making an improvised bow saw
7. 101Making & using a palm drill
8. 102Making a ferrocerium rod & striker
9. 103Making a bow drill friction fire lighting set
10. 104Making a hand drill friction fire lighting set
11. 105Making an ember blower
12. 106Making a ‘tippy tap’
13. 107Making a clothes peg
14. 108Making a small tent peg
15. 109Making a large peg
16. 110Making a candle holder
17. 111Making a rush light
18. 112Making a bark water filter
19. 113Making a crook knife case
20. 114Making tongs
21. 115Making a butter spreader
22. 116Making a spatula
23. 117Making a wooden spoon
24. 118Making a burnt bowl
25. 119Making a whisk
26. 120Making a chopping board

Campfire cooking methods & accessories

1. 121Making & using an adjustable pot hanging system
2. 161Cooking in the embers
3. 162Cooking on a hot rock
4. 163Making a plank & cooking on it
5. 164Making & using a pot hook
6. 165Making & using a simple pot hanger
7. 166Making & using a tripod
8. 167Making & cooking with a skewer
9. 168Making & cooking with a cleft stick frame
10. 169Making & using a campfire grill
11. 170Cooking on & caring for a griddle
12. 171Using a cast iron camp oven
13. 172Seasoning cast iron pans & ovens
14. 173Making & using a ground oven

Campfire recipes & drinks

1. 174Making damper bread
2. 175Making flat bread
3. 176Making fire bread
4. 177Cooking an egg
5. 178Cooking fish
6. 179Making bannock
7. 180Making Scotch pancakes
8. 181Baking bread
9. 182Making pizza
10. 183Steaming vegetables

Track & ask questions

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Tracking tools & technology

1. 1Scales
2. 2Making track traps
3. 3Making a foot print tracking tunnel
4. 4Track tracer
5. 5How to make a tracking stick
6. 6How to use a tracking stick
7. 7CyberTracker

Questioning

1. 8Questions, questions & yet more questions
2. 10The lost world

Tracking methodology

1. 11The six arts of tracking
2. 56Tracking stations

Identification: Who left this sign?

1. 12Best guess
2. 13Track drawings
3. 14Track detective
4. 15Which foot?
5. 16Bird foot print matching
6. 17Bird foot print detective
7. 18Mammal track matching
8. 19Fingertip tracking
9. 20Tracking ghosts
10. 21CSI human
11. 23Tracking expedition
12. 24Larger signs of life
13. 25Smaller signs of life
14. 26Home
15. 27Hole / nest detective
16. 28Nut & seed detective
17. 29Browse or chew mark detective
18. 30Which tool?
19. 31Cone detective
20. 32Browse connections
21. 35Moult or meal?
22. 37Bird pellet detective
23. 39Bone lucky dip
24. 40Jigsaw
25. 86Scat detective
26. 87Who’s poo?

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1. 22Human tracks
2. 33Mammal hair detective
3. 34Feather detective
4. 36Skull & bone detective
5. 38Ancestor hunt game
6. 60Tracking plants
7. 64Ecological tracking
8. 65Tracking trees
9. Curiosity & connection

Track interpretation: what?

1. 41Movement movie
2. 42Track pattern & gait
3. 43Track story telling
4. 44Gait imitation
5. 45Following footsteps
6. 46Which way?
7. 47Track me
8. 57Making & using track training pits

Aging track & sign: when?

1. 48Aging tracks
2. 49Aging other sign

Trailing: where?

1. 50Predictive trailing
2. 51Systematic trailing
3. 5250 tracks in a row
4. 53Log trailing game
5. 54Flour trailing game
6. 55Foot print flour trailing game

Other tracking

1. 58Tracking insects
2. 59Tracking snail trails
3. 61Tracking nature’s connections
4. 62Tracking the seasons
5. 63Tracking yourself
6. 66Tracking birds by sign & sound
7. 67Tracking through time & space

Imitate nature

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Blending with the baseline

1. 2Natural camouflage
2. 3Making a scrim net
3. 4Campfire scout
4. 5Smell like nature
5. 6Ssssh
6. 7Sound camouflage
7. 8Rain music statues game
8. 9Stoat & vole game
9. 10What’s on your mind?
10. 11Deer walking
11. 12Ambush
12. 13Conservation mission
13. 14Camera hunt
14. 15The wildlife is watching game
15. 17Blend game
16. 18Egg collectors game
17. 19Camouflage animal game game
18. 29How do you walk?
19. 32The wild cat
20. 33The lizard
21. 34The worm
22. 35The heron
23. 37Deer stalk game
24. 38Lynx stalks deer game
25. 39Deer sneakers game
26. 40Sneaking circle game
27. 41Sneaking assault course game
28. 59Fox walking
29. The 9 S’s of camouflage

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1. 16Hide
2. 16Hide! game
3. 36Be still
4. 56Beak game
5. The weasel

Other imitation

1. 20Fight or flight
2. 42Predator’s path game
3. 43Predator & prey game
4. 44Wolves & deer game
5. 45Night predator game
6. 46Goshawk & squirrel game
7. 47Cache game
8. 48Nest robbers game
9. 50Silent hunter
10. 51Fire in the wild! game
11. 52Run rabbit, run game
12. 53Photo dash game
13. 54Pronking game
14. 55Capture the flag game
15. 57Pheramone trail game

Animal forms

1. 21Animal forms
2. 22Animal imitation game
3. 23Animal blind dates game
4. 24Animal yoga
5. 25Animal parts game
6. 26Animal races game
7. 27Dragonfly game
8. 28Charades game
9. 58The fox spot

Value nature

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Living with gratitude

1. 1Gratitude activity
2. 2“Thank you”
3. 3Gratitude scavenger hunt
4. 4Wild tea gratitude
5. 5Kinship?
6. 6Intention
7. 7The heart of nature

‘How to be’

1. 8Honouring routine

Living with love & reference

1. 9Touching love?
2. 10Unlocking love
3. 11Reverence?

Awaken your mind's eye

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1. 1Awaken your mind’s eye
2. 2Mind’s eye imagination
3. 3Awareness game
4. 4Mind’s eye sketching
5. 5Unique
6. 6Leaf line up
7. 7Mystery animal story game
8. 8Journaling from field guides
9. 9Photographic memory game
10. 10Kim’s game game
11. 11Map your home
12. 12Guided imagery
13. 13Tree imagery
14. 14Imagine
15. 15Ideal ecological vision
16. 16Flying kites
17. 17Meet a tree game

Tell your story

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

Enjoy your sit spot

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1. 1Still hunting
2. 2Sleeping fawn game
3. 3Sit spot
4. 4Be alone with a tree
5. 5Indoor sit spot
6. 6Hide & seek game
7. 7Birds nests & foxes game
8. 8Sit spot trail
9. 9Group sit spot

Wander

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

Imaginatively journal

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Types of journals

1. 1Sit spot journal
2. 2Tree journal
3. 3Journaling from the ground up
4. 4Track journal
5. 7Exploring special places
6. 8Sunset watch

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1. 5Ethogram
2. 6Phenology

Creative connections

1. 9Poetry inspired by nature

Journaling

1. 10Observations
2. 11Creative journalling
3. 12The same but different
4. 13Zoom lens
5. 14Illustrating data
6. 15Diagrammatic drawing
7. 16Poetic journaling
8. 17Line journaling?

Drawing techniques

1. 19Warm up
2. 20Gesture drawing
3. 21Perspectives
4. 22Detailed drawing
5. 23Shadows

Support nature

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1. 1Take 3 for nature
2. 2Truly helpful
3. 3Litter hunt
4. 4Litter yoga game
5. 5Leave it be
6. 6Diversity
7. 11Providing food for birds
8. 36Creating a deadwood habitat

Support mammals

1. 7Creating a garden watering hole
2. 27Making a hedgehog home
3. 28Making a bat home
4. 29Making a mammal table
5. 53Mammal map app

Support birds

1. 8Making & maintaining a bird bath
2. 9Window warnings
3. 10Sharing the garden with birds
4. 12Maintaining a bird feeder
5. 13Providing nesting materials
6. 14Building & positioning a blue tit nesting box
7. 15Building & positioning a robin nesting box
8. 16Building & positioning a swift nesting box
9. 17Maintaining a nesting box
10. 39Making a dead hedge
11. 57BTO Bird Track
12. 58BTO Garden BirdWatch
13. 59RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
14. 60Bird count

Support motivating species

1. 18Making a beetle bucket
2. 19Making a leaf habitat
3. 20Making a bug hotel
4. 21Making a solitary bee home
5. 22Making a bumble bee box
6. 23Making a bee nest
7. 24Making a bee scrape
8. 25Making a bee watering station
9. 26Making & gifting a ‘seed gratitude ball’
10. 37Making a log wall
11. 38Making a hibernaculum
12. 40Making a small wildlife pond
13. 41Planning a butterfly & bee garden
14. 42Gathering seeds form plants & trees
15. 43Welly magic
16. 44Growing a pollinator habitat from seeds
17. 45Growing a pollinator habitat with plant plugs
18. 46Taking & growing cuttings
19. 47Splitting plants
20. 48The big butterfly count
21. 49Making compost
22. 50Making a wormery
23. 51The big bug count
24. 52The UK ladybird survey

Support the ecology

1. 30Growing a small tree sapling
2. 31Planting a sapling in the ground
3. 32Planting & maintaining a wildlife hedgerow
4. 54Bioblitz
5. 55How to do a deadwood survey
6. 56iNaturalist
7. Citizen science

Support heritage species

1. 33Protect a tree
2. 34Conserve
3. 35Nature legacy

Dive into field guides

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Navigating field guides

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

Using field guides to connect with natural spaces

1. 7Field guide thumbing
2. 8Elders
3. 9Lore
4. 10Wisdom from the elders
5. 11Know your neighbours
6. 12Field guide 5
7. 13Field guide treasure hunt game
8. 14All about me
9. 15Local species list

Hazardous species & natural forces

1. 16Meeting poisonous plants

Where to find wildlife

1. 19Have a guess
2. 20Hedges & other edges
3. 21Where do invertebrates hang out?
4. 22Where do fungi hang out?
5. 23Where do amphibians hang out?
6. 24Where do reptiles hang out?
7. 25Where do mammals hang out?
8. 26Where do plants hang out?
9. 27Where do trees hang out?
10. 28Where do birds hang out?
11. 29Ask a local

Mammal communities

1. 30Nature names game
2. 31Who am I? game
3. 32Noses game
4. 33The animal activity game
5. 34Animal tag game
6. 35Animal clue relay game
7. 36Nutty squirrels game
8. 37Bat walk game

Collecting natural curiosities

1. 38Making fungal spore prints
2. 39Making a foot print plaster cast
3. 40Cleaning & preserving animal parts
4. 41Cleaning & preserving skulls & bones
5. 42Collecting plant specimens
6. 43Making & using a flower press
7. 44Drying flowers
8. 45Leaf printing
9. 46How to make a leaf skeleton
10. 47Making a bark rubbing
11. 48Making a bark cast
12. 49Preserving feathers
13. 50Nest collecting

Motivating species & elements

1. 51Beetle tag game
2. 52Recycling the wild game
3. 53Hunting in hidden habitats
4. 54Spiders web hunt
5. 55How to identify an invertebrate
6. 56Flight pattern & paths
7. 57Attraction
8. 58Exploring the understory
9. 59The hungry centipede game
10. 60Stalking a butterfly
11. 61How to identify a butterfly
12. 62How to make & use a moth trap
13. 63How to attract moths by sugaring
14. 64How to identify a moth
15. 65Exploring galls
16. 66Pond dipping
17. 67Reptile hunting
18. 68Fungi scavenger hunt game
19. 69Fungi families
20. 125Using a soft brush & spoon
21. 126Sieves
22. 127How to make & use a pitfall trap
23. 128How to make an earwig trap
24. 129How to make a pooter
25. 130How to use a pooter
26. 131Spoon or straw?
27. 132Using a sweep net
28. 133Making a beating tray

Low-growing & herbaceous plant communities

1. 70Looking for plant patterns
2. 71Pot plant
3. 72Plant families
4. 73Looking at plant stems
5. 74Finding edible & poisonous lookalikes
6. 75Life cycle
7. 76Plant pattern scavenger hunt
8. 77Leaf puzzles game

Indicator species & ecological signals

1. 78Lichen?
2. 79Moss?
3. 135What’s in wild water?
4. 136Soil profile
5. 137Plant connections
6. 138Plant succession crawl
7. 139Jay the jay game
8. 140Food chain game
9. 141Owls & crows game
10. 142How to do a line transect
11. 143Woodland layers
12. 144Field inventory to ecology?
13. 145Habitat
14. 146How to make a jar terrarium
15. 147Webbing game
16. 148The pyramid of life game
17. 149Your community shared
18. 150Broken leaf game
19. 151Where is ‘away’? game
20. 152How to measure rainfall game

Trees & woody plant communities

1. 80How to identify a tree
2. 81How to identify a tree by its leaves
3. 82Introduce a tree game
4. 83Tree tag game
5. 84Identification activity game
6. 85Meet a new tree neighbour
7. 87Tree bingo game
8. 88Find this tree game
9. 89Tree faces
10. 90Tree silhouettes
11. 91Log match
12. 92Heartbeat of a tree
13. 93How old is this tree?
14. 94Measuring a tree
15. 95Winter tree identification
16. 96Needles
17. 97Bark matching
18. 98Dispersal
19. 99Wind dancers game
20. 101How to identify a bird

Bird communities

1. 100The familiar 5
2. 104Seasonalbird feeder
3. 105Nest
4. 106Nest building
5. 107Territories
6. 110Bird audio
7. 111Bird song matching
8. 112Dawn chorus
9. 114Silhouettes in the sky

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1. 102How to identify a bird using field marks
2. 108Birding by ear
3. 109Visualising bird song
4. 113Bird song ensemble
5. 134Badger watching

Nature exploration tools

1. 116How to set up & use a pocket microscope
2. 117How to use a hand lens
3. 118How to set up & use close up binoculars
4. 119How to set up & use binoculars
5. 120How to use a field scope
6. 121Setting up a trail camera
7. 122Using a bat detector
8. 123Photographing wildlife
9. 124Using night vision aids

Open your senses

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Arriving & becoming present

1. 1Reminder
2. 2In the ‘now’

Awaken your sense of hearing

1. 3Dear ears
2. 4Drum stalk game
3. 5Pin drop
4. 6Spectrogram
5. 7Seeker game
6. 8Sound shakers
7. 9Tree songs
8. 10Owls & mice game
9. 11Owls & voles game
10. 12Two ears are better than one
11. 13Sound claps game
12. 15Click paths game
13. 16Rabbit in headlights game
14. 17I can hear
15. 18Soundscape
16. 19Song of the season?
17. 20Wild symphony
18. 77Signs of the season
19. 84Night noises

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1. 14Bat versus moth game
2. 63Natural colours game
3. 76Seasonal change
4. A square metre
5. Touching a deer

Optimising our sense of touch

1. 21Squirrel touch
2. 22Blindfold recognition of leaves game
3. 23My stick game
4. 24Blindfold plaster casts game
5. 25Barefoot walking
6. 26Pocket friends game
7. 27Sensory tree ID game
8. 29Blindfold earth walk game
9. 30Caterpillar walk game
10. 31Snail trail game
11. 32Blindfold trail game
12. 34Natural texture scavenger hunt
13. 35Bark texture trail
14. 36Prickly-tickly?

Awaken your sense of smell

1. 37Badger nose
2. 38Scent slide show game
3. 39I can smell… scent sacks game
4. 40Scent cocktail? game
5. 41Scratch & sniff? game
6. 42Hand-washing game
7. 43Scent of place
8. 44Smell scavenger hunt game

Scent tracking

1. 45Badger trail game
2. 46House smells
3. 47Scent trail game
4. 48Wild cat territories game
5. 49Moth trail game
6. 50Dog nose game
7. 51Sniffer dog game

Awaken your sense of taste

1. 52Adder tongue
2. 53Mindful chewing
3. 54Wild tea tasting
4. 55Edible walk

Awakening your sense of vision

1. 56Owl eyes
2. 57Nature’s dance
3. 58Follow the leader game
4. 59Buzzard eye game
5. 60Mobbing game
6. 61Following an insect
7. 64Shades of green game
8. 65Pirate eye
9. 66Shape matching game
10. 67Spirals game
11. 68Wild skeletons game
12. 69The green wall
13. 70I spy game
14. 71Under-world game
15. 72Nature’s show game
16. 73Lighting
17. 74Slide show game
18. 75Spot the difference
19. 78Autumn’s rainbow
20. 79Campfire stalk game
21. 80Lantern stalk game
22. 81Night world
23. 82Night vision
24. 83Dusk walk
25. 94Look up
26. 95Look down
27. 96Scanning
28. 97Dead space
29. 98Awareness hide
30. 99Awareness trail
31. 100It’s all a matter of perspective
32. 101Movie camera game
33. 102Angles game
34. 103Earth windows game
35. 104Nature’s art gallery game
36. 105Camera game
37. 106Mirror walks game
38. 108Mouse view
39. 109Micro-journey game
40. 110Another world
41. 111Eagle eye
42. 125Flight patterns

Awaken your sense of body awareness

1. 85Dormouse balance

Optimising our sense of intuition

1. 86Who’s watching us? game
2. 87Intuition game
3. 88Intuition & the moccasin game game
4. 89Intuition game game
5. 90Silent predator game
6. 91Spot the hair game
7. 92Toxic or tasty game
8. 93Gut instinct game

Combining the senses

1. 112More than one

Expanding awareness

1. 1131, 2, 3 where are you? game

More sensory exploration activities

1. 114Sensory scavenger hunt
2. 115Same walk, different sense
3. 116Blindfold training
4. 124100 things to sense in nature

‘How to be’

1. 117The silent walk

Sense meditations & mindfulness

1. 118One-minute sponge
2. 119Sense meditation
3. 120The sacred silence
4. 121Nature meditations
5. 122Mindful walking
6. 1235, 4, 3, 2 , 1 game

Map & navigate naturally

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Map

1. 1Map your sit spot
2. 2Journal maps
3. 3Sound map
4. 4Mapping activity game
5. 5Journey stick game
6. 6Direction mapping game
7. 7Four direction sculptures game
8. 8Map your world game
9. 9Habitat map game
10. 10Aerial map game
11. 11Bird’s eye view mapping game
12. 12Song lines
13. 14Place names we make up game
14. 15Treasure hunt game
15. 16Scavenger hunt game
16. 17Find my secret spot game
17. 18Exploration group game
18. Song-line treasure hunt

Natural & aidless navigation

1. 19Finding north
2. 20Natural navigation
3. 21Seasonal sun tracking
4. 22Seasonal sunset & sunrise
5. 23Sundial
6. 24Finding & navigating by the north star
7. 25Navigating by the moon
8. 26Navigating by other constellations
9. 27Moon phase

Unfamiliar landscape

1. 28Using natural & unnatural handrails

Lost proofing

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

Wilding mentoring

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Passing wild wisdom on

1. 1The red fox mentoring compass
2. 2Practicing ‘Be’
3. 3Practicing ‘Notice’

More activity guides

1. 4Wonder
2. 5Invite
3. 14The ‘Wilding’ cards

Before you begin

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Nature connectedness

1. 1Baseline quiz
2. 2Nature connected-ness index
3. 3Then versus now

More activity guides

1. 4Preparing a risk assessment

Hazard awareness & keeping safe

1. 5Preparing an emergency action plan
2. 6What’s the weather?
3. 7Cloud matching
4. 8Shade
5. 9Estimating wind scale & the risk
6. 10How far away is that lightening?
7. 11Predicting rain
8. 12Checking for ticks
9. 14Handling plants & trees that scratch & sting
10. 15Visual tree assessment
11. 16Tricky trees
12. 17Fungi pizza game

Venturing further

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Preparing for your visit

1. 1Discover a wild space
2. 2Dream board

Emotional preparation

1. 3Silver linings

Essential equipment

1. 4Clothing & footwear options

Unfamiliar landscape

1. 5Understanding map symbols & legends
2. 6Reading contours & understanding elevation
3. 7Using grid references
4. 8Scaling a map
5. 9Orientating a map
6. 10How to plan a journey
7. 11Calculating distance travelled using pacing
8. 12Getting to know a compass
9. 13Using a compass to take & follow a bearing
10. 14Using a compass to work out the direction of a slope
11. 15Sight lining
12. 16what3words

Hazard awareness & keeping safe

1. 17Finding water in natural spaces
2. 18Making wild water safe to drink
3. 19Hand washing in the wild
4. 20When nature calls!

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