Botanic Garden and Attenborough Arboretum

Forest School taster days

Your day will be led by a Forest School trained leader. The pupils will take part in practical hands-on activities learning new skills and exploring nature and natural materials first-hand. All are suitable for EYFS / KS1 / KS2.

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Choose three activities to a make a full day 

  1. Shelter Building: Work in small groups to create a shelter using ropes, sheets, tarpaulins and branches. Groups can design their own shelter or make one from examples provided
  2. Natural painting: Using bowls and sticks make paint from natural materials like mud, leaves, flowers and berries. Paint a picture and make a frame using sticks. Or use a mallet to squash leaves and flowers onto cloth to create works of art
  3. Mud!: Set up a mud cafe and design your own mud cakes, shakes, pies... Try creating mud paintings, balls, faces and more!
  4. Music: Listen to Marin Waddell's story 'The Happy Hedgehog' and make music of your own using the natural features of the Arboretum. Make a shaker or rattle or a clay hedgehogs and work together to replicate the sound of a rainstorm.
  5. Mammal tracks: Look for and follow tracks and learn about the mammals that created them. Create some prints of your own and make an animal mask to take home
  6. Elves, fairies and their homes: Let your imagination run wild as they create a little person of the forest then make luxurious abode for them using a range of natural materials such as mud, bark, sticks, moss and grass
  • Age groups: EYFS / KS1 / KS2
  • Availability: All year
  • Numbers: up to 35 (one class)
  • Duration: Full day
  • Lunch: An inside space will be provided if needed
  • Site: Attenborough Arboretum, Carisbrooke Rd
  • Cost: Please visit our programme costs page

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