Welcome to our ideas page for learning outside. We will provide you with some exciting suggestions and ideas that you could try. The activities are usually done outdoors but for those who don’t have access to an outdoors space, we’ll try to offer suggestions for how you could get involved inside your home.
It is up to you which activities you’d like to try and you may have your own ideas that evolve as you try things. Please follow these ideas too – don’t feel that you need to do everything we suggest or do the activities in any particular order.
We hope you enjoy them and have fun!
Have a look at the WWF website to learn about endangered animals and some of the threats that they face.
They also have 21 ideas for what you can to to help the planet!
Have a look at some of these WWF ideas you could try at home – outside or inside…
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 Try making a brilliant bird bath for the thirsty birds who visit your outdoor space? |
 Spot bees, dandelions and baby-birds this month. |
 Spot flowers, moths and build a home for bats! |
| Feeling the urge to party with paints? For budding Van Goghs or Georgia O’Keefes…
Why not try painting with flowers? Click on the images to find out what to do…
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If your spiders senses are tingling and you feel the need to weave, why not try making a gorgeous Dream Catcher?
Click on the image to find instructions on what to do…
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| Here’s another fantastic activity for you to try. Click on the images to find out what to do… |
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Or try a different kind of creativity…
 This is not a cardboard box! What could it be? Let your imagination fly… |
 How many things could you do with a sheet? Make flags, dens, swings… just remember to ask first though!! |
 How about making your own water-park, experimenting with ice, floating and sinking, even try making your own xylophone with water? |
 Plan an exciting journey through your home or your garden, navigating rivers, dangerous bogs, creaky bridges, tall grasses, deep dark caves and terrible villains… |
This activity is all about moving and maybe getting dizzy! Find different ways of moving around and create your own obstacle course… |
Sustainability Challenge!
Being sustainable means looking after our natural world and trying not to damage it, by polluting it or being wasteful with its precious resources.
What could you do at home to be more sustainable?
Get involved – what could YOU do to HELP?
Have a look below for ideas and to see what people have been getting up to… then send in a photo to show how you’ve been helping to look after our planet.
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| Food Glorious Food – for free!!
Have a look at these brilliant ideas to grow your own food – no garden, soil or seeds required! Click on the image to find out more… |
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Plant wildflowers to attract bees, butterflies, moths and other pollinators…(have a look for our Butterfly and Bee Spotters, further down the page, to identify the ones you see…)
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| Try to attract more nature into your outdoor space. Try building a bug hotel or a wild water feature.
Mrs Horscroft has dug out a pond and made a home for frogs out of logs and stones… |
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Walk or use your bike to cycle, instead of going in the car…
Make junk models with recycled materials…
Use fabric from an old t-shirt to make something new…
Share a great recipe for left-over food…
Reduce, reuse and recycle stuff…have a look at these pictures- can you guess what’s been up-cycled to use as a table, a dresser and a bird stand?
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| Try to reduce the amount of energy your family uses as home.
Mrs McClain likes to dry her washing outside when she can, instead of using a tumble drier… |
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Save water, maybe by collecting rainwater to water your plants or turning off taps while you clean your teeth…
| Try to use less single-use plastic. You could make eco-bricks with plastic you can’t recycle.
Click here…Tips for Making Eco bricks |
Try to spread the message to other people! Have a look at some of these posters we made as part of a Save Our Seas topic…
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Have a look at our Eco Team page on the website for more ideas and information about how you can live more sustainably…