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Sit spot trail

As the group walks along a trail, raise your hand whenever you approach a particularly beautiful or inviting spot.

Creature cover-up

Gather the learners in a wild space and introduce the ideas of camouflage, including disruptive colouration, disguise, mimicry and concealing colouration.

Take 3 for nature

Every time you go outside, pick up three bits of rubbish and take them away with you.

Making a bat home

Cut untreated timber to the dimensions of your chosen bat box design.

Providing nesting materials

Take an old sock or stocking and stuff it to the end with different layers of nesting material, such as animal hair from a hairbrush, fence or pet grooming brush, dried grass, hay, feathers or wool.

Flow chart field guides

A flow chart field guide, often called a key, leads you to a name by asking a series of questions.

Sieves

Choose a place with loose material to search, such as deep leaf litter under trees, the soil beneath a hedge or the muddy bottom of a pond or stream.

Moss hunt

After rain, visit a damp, shady place such as a woodland floor, a north-facing wall, a stream bank or the foot of an old tree.

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