Activities

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bumblebee nest

Make a bumblebee nest

Make a cosy home for some of your buzzing friends!

Bird hide

How to make a bird hide

View birds close up by making your own hide.

Help birds avoid windows

Help birds avoid windows

Use your craft skills to help birds avoid windows.

birds nest

Build a bird's nest

Craft your own bird nest with nature finds.

Mini raft

How to build a mini raft

Have a go at making this to float on water.

Mammal tunnel

Make a small mammal tunnel

Capture footprints with this tunnel!

wind vane

Make a wind vane

Study wind direction with a vane.

Beetle bank - thumb

Build a beetle bank

Welcome lots of different types of beetles in by building your own beetle bank

Get started (1.14 MB)

Make a beetle bucket

Make a beetle bucket

Make the perfect home for beetles and other sorts of insects!

Get started (2.85 MB)

make a dragonfly

Make a dragonfly

Get crafty with this make!

Make a ladybird

Make a ladybird

Try this one at home!

nectar bar

Make a nectar bar

Perfect for pollinators!

nature treasure chest

Make a treasure chest

Keep your natural treasures in here!

Mini meadow

Grow a mini meadow

Beautiful and great for wildlife

Model butterfly

Make a model butterfly

Bring your favourite butterfly to life!

nettle soup

Make nettle soup

Have you tried it before?

Pooter

Make a pooter

To investigate minibeasts!

Summer flower spotter

Summer Flowers Spotter

Be a nature detective! Can you tick off any of these?

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Hibernaculum

Build a hibernaculum

Build a home for amphibians and reptiles!

How to build a hedgehog feeding station

Make a hedgehog feeding station

Get more prickly friends in your garden!

Activity sheet showing which plants attract insects

Make your garden insect-friendly

Get your garden buzzing all year round!

Autumn leaves

Autumn leaves

Explore the woodland and see what you discover

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An identification sheet for ten slugs: threeband slug, large red slug, green-soled slug, dusky slug, hedgehog slug, netted field slug, green cellar slug, budapest keeled slug, and ghost slug

Slug spotter

Be a nature detective! Can you tick off any of these?

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An identification sheet for ten snails: two-toothed door snail, round snail, garlic snail, brown-lipped snail, white-lipped snail, garden snail, girdled snail, Kentish snail, hairy snail, and strawberry snail

Snail spotter

Be a nature detective! Can you tick off any of these?

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A spotting sheet of ten wading birds. They are golden plover, avocet, curlew, black-tailed godwit, lapwing, common sandpiper, dunlin, little ringed plover, ringed plover and redshank

Summer wader spotter

Can you spot any of these waders this summer?

A spotting sheet for winter wading birds, including golden plover, grey plover, greenshank, black-tailed godwit, bar-tailed godwit, sanderling, dunlin, knot, turnstone and redshank

Winter wader spotter

Can you spot any of these waders this winter?

A spotting sheet for rare waders, featuring little stint, curlew sandpiper, wood sandpiper, pectoral sandpiper, dotterel, black-winged stilt, spotted redshank, whimrbel, grey phalarope, and red-necked phalarope

Rare wader detective

Have you spotted any of these rarer waders? Most are only seen in small numbers each year, so you'll need patience and a bit of luck to find them!

a collection of pond-dwelling minibeasts with dragonfly, damselfly and mayfly nymphs, great diving beetle adult and larva, water scorpion, water stick insect, pond skater and lesser and great water boatman

Pond minibeast spotter

Can you spot any of these pond-dwelling minibeasts?

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crab colouring sheet

Crab colouring sheet

How bright and colourful can you make your crab?

Woodland wildlife summer spotter

Summer woodland spotter

Be a nature detective! Can you tick off any of these?

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