So often when we go on a walk in the woods and my kids climb the boughs of trees near the ground, they look up at the tree tops longingly. I finally took them on a treetop adventure so they could make this dream real. More and more forests, adventure parks and even city centres […]
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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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Boulders and small sandstone cliffs lined the path with majestic trees clinging to them like warrior riders. Luce and Theo pretended that they were explorers in a time warp as they climbed and traversed the sandrock outcrops. We were following the Rock Walk which winds for over a kilometre along the edge of Bloomer Valley
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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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Whenever we go for a walk my children instantly start searching for trees to climb. And I always let them climb trees. Number one in the National Trust’s list of “50 things to do before you’re 11 ¾” is climb a tree. In parks and woods where there are trees whose lower arms spread out
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What stories and images come to your mind when you think of an enchanted forest? Let me take you on the fairy tale adventure of the twins Luce and Theo at Groombridge Place. They boarded a boat and went along a quiet canal where the trees appeared above and below the water. Alas, they were shipwrecked.
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