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Nature Crafts for Kids: how to make a journey stick

July 24, 2020 by Catherine 31 Comments

journey stick outdoor activity children

Making a journey stick is such an easy, fun outdoor craft to do with the kids - and a great low-cost way to have some fun family time. It's just one of the fun nature projects in my new book, 'A Year of Nature Craft and Play'.  There’s an activity for every week of the year and it includes fun crafts, gardening, games, art and science experiments - perfect for inspiring kids to get creative with nature and explore the amazing natural ...

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Filed Under: Craft Tagged With: Activity, Children, craft, Family, Family Fun, Kids craft, Nature, Outdoors, Sticks, Wildlife, Woodland

Wildflower wanderings

August 6, 2015 by Catherine 22 Comments

wildflower field

Have you ever had the chance to roam through fields of wildflowers?  It’s the stuff of romantic novels and Hollywood movies isn’t it, and certainly not something I expected to be able to do locally - but that’s exactly what we spent an afternoon doing at Naturescape wildlflower farm in Langar, Nottinghamshire. Naturescape is a 90 acre wildflower farm, producing native species of wildflowers and grasses primarily for the wholesale wildflower ...

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Filed Under: Exploring Nature Tagged With: Children, Days out, Family, Flowers, Garden, Minibeasts, Nature, Plants, Summer, Wildflowers, Wildlife, Woodland

Woodland wanderings

January 29, 2015 by Catherine 18 Comments

woodland walk

I think this week has been the hardest so far this Winter for me to find any garden inspiration.  The weather has been pretty foul and our garden is looking a bit like I feel; rather drab and in need of a bit of colour and sun to liven things up.  Ah January, how we love you.... So with little to inspire us on the doorstep, and with Lily keen to continue her never-ending mission to find the perfect stick, we headed to our local wood to blow away ...

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Filed Under: Exploring Nature Tagged With: Children, Family, Flowers, HDYGG, Moss, Snowdrops, Trees, Wildlife, Winter, Woodland

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