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We’ve found 110 activities:
Make brilliant bird feeders
Learn about the natural world by making a bird feeder packed with delicious treats for our feathered friends.
1 hr
Outdoors
Hi-vis hustle
Use the torches and seek out hi-vis items in this head-to-head team game.
30 mins
Outdoors
Visiting nature
Time to take note of nature and discover how the world changes around us.
Supported by
Nattergal
15 mins
Outdoors
Get composting
Learn how to compost your food and garden waste.
20 mins
Indoors
Snug as a bug
Everyone needs somewhere to call home, and invertebrates are no exception.
1 hr
Outdoors
Go insect spotting
Head outdoors to explore the trees, leaves, butterflies and bugs waiting to be discovered.
1 hr
Outdoors
It’s a worm’s world
Create an artificial home for worms and watch these amazing digging machines at work.
Supported by
Rolls-Royce
40 mins
Indoors
Campfires
Songs, stories, skits, and s’mores might feature, but what really makes a campfire special is the people around it.
1 hr
Outdoors
Video diaries
After taking action on social issues, it’s time to interview each other on camera so you can reflect and share what you’ve learned.
Supported by
Generation Green
1 hr
Outdoors
Share to inspire
After taking action on social issues choose the best method to tell people what you’ve done, then get stuck in.
Supported by
Generation Green
1 hr
Indoors
The reuse challenge
Challenge everyone to reuse as much as they can – who will be the champion?
20 mins
At home
Create a fruit-salad solar system
Use the contents of your fruit bowl to demonstrate the staggering size of the planets in our solar system.
40 mins
Indoors
Make shadow puppets
Build a shadow puppet theatre, create your puppets, and get ready to tell your story.
1 hr
Indoors
Build a bee hotel
Build a bee hotel and welcome these crucial critters to your meeting place or garden.
1 hr
Indoors
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