Green Earth Learning

8 activities for Easter:

🌱Nature collage on egg shapes.
🌻Colour hunt (ensure you eat a box of eggs first!).
🐦Egg hunt forest school style - match to the birds.
🥚Collage a hanging egg decoration.
🐰Make some willow rabbit ears.
🐇Create a clay rabbit.
🌿Leaf punching.

Did you know that the RSPB have a wealth of resources to help you with your outdoor learning and nature connection journey?

Last year I did the Nature Prescription training and, whilst it goes without saying that nature played the leading role in our forest school life, I've now introduced it into my Walks for Wellbeing.

So much fun to see adults interacting and enjoying the challenge as much as the children did.

Who says we have to be grown ups when we grow up?!

I recommend having a look at these resources - all free on the RSPB website.

5 simple activities to celebrate spring:

🐦 Make your own bird's nest.
🌻Plant sunflower seeds.
💣Make your own seed bombs.
🌱Clay decorations.
🔎Nature trail spelling out spring.

Forget Valentine's - roll on Pancake Day! The perfect excuse to eat as many pancakes as you like!!

Scotch pancakes are my favourite over the campfire (or on the hob).

Here's the recipe we use for about 20:

250g gf self raising flour
50g brown sugar
4 tsp baking powder
300g oat milk (though I think you're not supposed to call it milk anymore 😜 listening to yesterday)

And hopefully this is a recipe that most people can have. Totally delicious, especially when you add lemon and more sugar. 😋

Thanks for all the 💚 on my Valentine's Day post. It's inspired me to gather all my photos and ideas from the last 8 years and share with you. It's a lot of sorting!! Watch this space. 👀

10 ideas for Valentine's

💚 Nature hunt.
🌳 Weaving hearts on wood cookies.
💚 Willow hearts.
🌳 Clay decorations.
💚 Wire hearts.
🌳 Nature trail.
💚 Leaf punching and making keyrings.
🌳 Weaving shapes with scarves.
💚 Bubble blowers.
🌳 Ice play.

Stunning 🍂🍁

YK,A charming collection of whimsical woodland sculptures, each meticulously hand-crafted from natural materials like fallen leaves, twigs, and twine. This four-panel collage features a sparrow, a hedgehog, a tiny traveler, and a snail, all captured in a magical forest setting.
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Open to schools and early years settings in England, Scotland and Wales, this outdoor learning grant fund has four elements — an outdoor learning training course for your staff, a school grounds climate survey, a Climate Curriculum Kit (valued at £150) and £500 of outdoor equipment chosen from a catalogue of over 100 items.
Learn more about the grants below or head straight to the application portal.
https://ltl.org.uk/projects/local-school-nature-grants/

How exciting is it to actually receive a letter through the post? We just don't get letters these days. I received my Letters for Little Heroes post just before Christmas (and thanks to the Christmas post just after our final forest school session!!).

It's a great pack bursting with information about someone in history - in this case Horatio Nelson. Super high quality on 3 doubled sided sheets, with a separate fact sheet and a collectable top trumps style card. What a lovely way to get excited about history. With different figures being featured, it's a great way to build up a good collection over a period of time.

I was lucky enough to be gifted my letter pack and I'd love to pass on the love to someone who will get lots of use out of it, so if you think this would be a great addition to your educational resources, give a follow and pop an emoji below. Someone will be selected at random on Monday at 10am and I'll post off to you next week.

Well done for creating such an interesting educational resource. 💚

This is not linked to anything else on here, and I won't ask for any payment, send links or anything like that, so please be aware of anyone doing that. Running across Instagram and Facebook.

February half term clubs go live to book on Monday 19th January at 12pm midday! 📅

During the week break, nearly 100 clubs across the county will be offering eligible school‑aged children fun and exciting activities, alongside a free hot meal, helping to support families and communities!

You won't need a HolidayActivities voucher code to book on.

Learn more: https://www.activeessex.org/children-young-people/essex-activate/about-essex-activate/

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Forest Schools are almost back in session! 📏✏️📚

Pop on your waterproofs and wellie boots and make forest school top of your agenda in 2026. 🎒🥾

Starting Monday 19 January, join our L3 forest school leaders for Woodland Play sessions, aimed at under-5s or Home Education sessions for older ones.

Activities include forest crafts, imagination, physical play and building things. 💚

Booking is easy, click to find out more 👉www.explore-essex.com/schools-and-groups/forest-schools