Nature Activities
Welcome to the great outdoors, where adventures and discoveries await! Explore the wonders of nature firsthand and dive into exciting activities that let you discover, learn, and play in the wild. Get ready to connect with the environment, get a little messy, and uncover the incredible secrets hidden in the world around us.
Build your own bird box
Give feathered friends a safe place to roost and nest.
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Go seed collecting
To celebrate National Tree Week, get out and about and become a seed planter.
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Build a frog home
Protect your amphibian friends from the cold this winter.
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Make plaster cast fossils
Preserve your precious artefacts using plaster of Paris.
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Capture the weather on camera
Spot a glorious sunset or atmospheric thunderstorm? Take amazing pictures of the elements with this simple guide to weather photography.
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Helping Nature
Join the Big Garden Birdwatch
Take part in one of the UK's biggest citizen science projects.
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Raise tadpoles at home
Collect some frogspawn from a local pond and watch as the tadpoles emerge and turn into young frogs.
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Winter in Nature
Feed winter birdlife
Food is scarce over winter, so give your local birds a helping hand with this easy-to-make seed teacup.
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Experience winter nature
It may still be cold outside, but wrap up warm and get involved.
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Night-time activities
Make the most of the longer evenings this autumn and winter,
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Make an autumn tree
Celebrate National Tree Week with this simple project.
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Observing autumn stars
Find constellations in the night sky that can only be seen during autumn.
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Help the environment
Want to make a difference? Help the environment with our eco-friendly activities.
Get your hands dirty
Join a slug hunt
Search out your slimy neighbours in the name of science.
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Start a sunflower race
Challenge your family or friends to grow the tallest sunflowers.
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Go pebble spotting
Rock on this summer - and use these tips for our summer Scavenger Hunt.
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Make a butterfly feeder
Hang this flowery feeder in your garden or from your windowsill to encourage busy butterflies to drop by.
Join the Great British Beach Clean
Adopt and care for a local stretch of coastline.
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Gloriously grubby green fingers
Why not veg out this summer? Growing your own fresh food is delicious and good for your health, too.
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Go nurdle hunting
Protect your local coastline from tiny pellets of plastic.
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Make the best conkers
Use science to dominate every conker game this autumn.
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Grow your own herbs
Bring summer inside by creating a fragrant mini-garden on your windowsill.
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Make a bug catcher
Get to know your local bug life with a handy homemade device, called a pooter.
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Press your own flowers
Preserve your favourite blooms for years to come with this simple technique.
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Make a bug hotel
Make your windowsill or garden a happy place for insects with a bug hotel.
Make a sundial
Build an ancient clock that tells the time using the Sun.
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Watch flowers drink
Make flowers change colour and discover how water moves up through a plant.
Make your own ecosystem
Create your own miniature rainforest world that recycles its own water.
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Create your own star map
Unpredictable weather can mean more cloudy nights than usual, but when the skies clear, grab this map and a torch, and get outside to see the stars.
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Create a lightning bolt in a jar
No need to be a storm chaser, experiment with static electricity to generate your own lightning bolt.
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Make a nature calendar
Make your own disc-shaped journal to keep track of what you see next year.
Tree protector
Make a leaf mandala
Go hunting for the most colourful and beautiful-shaped leaves for your project.
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Make seed cards
Give your friends and family the gift of flowers with these DIY plantable cards.
Build a home for animals
Give all sorts of creatures somewhere cosy to shelter this winter.
Make wildflower seed bombs
Get mucky with this exciting new project, which in turn will produce food for vital insects.
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Help endangered animals
Be kind to nature this month and help wildlife, both at home and abroad.
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Go butterfly spotting
Join the Big Butterfly Count and help save your local flying insects.
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Build sand sculptures
Grab a bucket and spade, and create some amazing artwork at the beach.
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Check out The Week Junior magazines' FREE Activity Hub. The team has compiled some super exciting activities from the award-winning magazine that you can enjoy at home with little to no resource - something to fun, free and easy help keep curious young minds educated and entertained.
