Archive Blog Archives

Wind dancers

Collect a selection of windborne tree or plant seeds, such as winged sycamore or ash keys, or fluffy dandelion or willowherb seeds.

Follow your nose

Reflect with the group on the scent trail they have left behind so far today.

Hide

Gather the learners next to a woodland trail and divide them into two groups.

Night predator

Before the session, find an open area roughly one hundred metres wide, such as a glade.

Who am I?

Tape an animal card to each learner's back without them seeing which animal they have.

Follow the leader

Gather the learners into a circle, spaced an arm's distance apart.

Adder tongue

Put a small amount of food into five separate containers, one for each of the five basic taste groups, sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami.

Blend

Invite one learner to be the seeker.

Name that neighbour

Gather the learners and read out a series of eight clues, one at a time, that together describe a specific UK animal.