A fun way for kids to play with mud and clay are to mix seed bombs. The seed bombs are a mix of compost, clay and seeds which will grow into wildflowers that are friendly to bees, birds, bugs and butterflies. My children learnt how to make wildflower seed bombs when we went to a botanical […]
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What’s better a concrete playground or a natural play area? Many communities, schools, parks and organisations globally – including the National Trust in the UK – are answering this question by designing natural semi-wild spaces for children to play in and explore. This is a result of research increasingly showing that reconnecting kids with nature
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As readers know I’m very keen on children noticing and appreciating nature. As we have so many wild birds where we live in rural West Sussex, I’m continually thinking of ways to make bird watching fun for them – like designing this Lego bird feeder. So I came up with a plan for them to
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On nature walks we constantly spot animal footprints and can see where they roam when we’re not about. We’ve also been on a nature detective hunt following badger trails. Finally we decided it was time to learn how to make casts of animal tracks so we could find out who had been sharing those same
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When my children were 5 we first started bird watching. There was an empty bird feeder in the tree outside our back deck and out of a whim I bought some bird feed one day to fill it up. Soon I had two very excited twins pointing at the red, blue and multi-coloured birds landing
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When we see mud puddles, we avoid them. When kids see mud puddles, they jump and splash in them. That is, if we adults let them. During the holidays in between rainfalls I took my kids and a friend of theirs for a walk where I let them go wild in mud puddles. Turns out
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