Want to be healthier and happier? I’d say you need more wildness in your life! We, as a species, need to rewild ourselves. Practising bushcraft and taking time out for ourselves in nature can be our vehicle to honouring our ancient, wild selves. You may have seen plenty of stories doing the rounds about landowners […]
Get a FREE Nature Scavenger Hunt
We’re giving you our Nature Scavenger Hunt that we’ve had loads of success with at our outdoor kids sessions. It’s a FREE download which works great whether you’re a teacher or activity leader running an outdoor education session, or you’re a parent who wants to spice up a walk in the woods with their kids. […]
How I Escaped The 9 to 5 And Set Up My Own Business In The Woods
The other day I saw a news report that in the UK there is a staggeringly large waiting list of 51,000 children who want to join Scouting groups across the country – you can read that article here. This one fact alone shows how much demand there is currently for regular outdoor activity sessions for children. […]
Autism & Wildcraft Adventure – How Gamer Kids Chose to Unplug & Play Outdoors Without Argument
Something quite unexpected happened when I started hosting our outdoor activity events for kids. We started getting an increasing number of enquiries and bookings by parents whose children were on the autistic spectrum. The event that caused this unexpected but welcome interest was our Wildcraft Adventures. I wanted to find out why this was happening. […]
Autism & Forest School. How to Integrate Kids with Differences & Feel Confident as a Leader.
“While we see the forest, a person with ASD will see every single leaf on every single branch on every single tree in the forest” Paul Fijal Something that I’ve noticed happening naturally over the last couple of years is an increase in kids on the Autistic Spectrum Disorder coming to our Forest School sessions. With […]
RAY MEARS CHAMPIONS FOREST SCHOOL
TV presenter, author and bushcraft expert Ray Mears has given forest schools his seal of approval. Having observed a forest school group during a recent canoe trip he described how one boy “… was building his own legend, the person he was going to become. He’d become something more and that’s what it’s about. There’s […]
Got the Winter Blues? Nature Has the Answer
We NEED To Get Outdoors, even though it’s wet & cold. It’s essential for our health and happiness, here’s why… Winter is a time of year when many people hide away indoors, mirroring the hibernation of some animals and with all this wind and rain we’ve had for what feels like forever, who can blame […]
Forest Schools in a Nutshell
This is a guest-blog written by Loretta Hourigan, author of From Little Acorns to Mighty Oaks: Creating a Path to Happier, Healthier Children. This article was originally printed in the magazine ‘Independent Schools’ in August 2015. “A Student led approach to learning in the great Outdoors” Forest Schools are sweeping through the UK and […]
Making Wild Teas with Kids
Want a great and simple way to get kids engaged in the outdoors? We’ve uploaded a video to our YouTube channel showing how to make yummy wild teas and how successful this has been with children. Enjoy! So, to recap…. We used the following common plants in our wild teas; stinging nettles, goosegrass or cleavers, […]
Why Kids Need “1hr a Day” in Nature
Here in the UK, the government and health boards tell us we need to get our ‘5 a Day’ of fruit and veg into our diet. So, what about nature time? I say we should introduce a minimum ‘1 hour a Day.’ After all don’t we get essential vitamins from sunlight too? By Lea Wakeman. […]