Muddy Faces

It's Wales Outdoor Learning week next week (28th April - 4th May) aims to encourage and inspire educators, teachers, learning groups and families in Wales to embed nature into school and family life, reaping the many benefits it brings. 💚
Did you know we have a selection of UK Grown wood Welsh Language resources? https://muddyfaces.co.uk/shop/welsh-language-resources

Conference in Aberdeen this May.

**More conference news!**

Have you met our Terri? If you have, you'll know that she's a real expert in child development and trauma informed practice. She also has one of those voices that instantly soothes and inspires, making her an excellent speaker! As well as being an Outdoors Thinking trainer, Terri has decades of experience working with children in Steiner nurseries, mainstream and ASN provision. She is also one of the brains behind The Nature Nurture Project and provides training on the Nature Nurture Approach.

Terri is talking on Saturday about all things movement and sensory, key for humans of all ages!

https://sway.cloud.microsoft/71nZGJzWBKysbU1e?ref=Link&loc=play

Dawn Ewan Consultant Muddy Faces Mucky Boots

An excellent resource, free to download.

High Quality Outdoor Learning 2025 - Published by the Institute of Outdoor Learning

Cambium Sustainable is a proud organisational member of the IOL:
https://www.outdoor-learning.org/organisation-directory/cambium-sustainable.html

This first edition was published on (21st November 2024) to celebrate the powerful impact of the outdoors on education and personal development. Global Outdoor Learning Day is an opportunity to showcase diverse outdoor learning activities, share best practices, and inspire a love for the natural world in learners of all ages.

Outdoor learning is a term that covers various approaches to engaging with the outdoors for learning and developmental purposes. This guide focuses on the delivery of high quality outdoor learning – what it looks like and how to achieve it. It recognises that outdoor learning takes place, not only in the formal education sector and through outdoor providers, but equally in youth services and voluntary youth organisations, as well as in a wide range of outdoor activity clubs that cater for young people, health settings and in peer and family groups.

To read more go to: https://www.outdoor-learning.org/resource/high-quality-outdoor-learning-2025.html

May is packed full of inspiring activities to help you & your groups thrive outdoors!
Don’t miss ★ No Mow May ★ World Bee Day ★ Hedgehog Week ★ National Walking Month ★ Be Nice to Nettles Week ★ Urban Tree Festival ★ and more!
Check out our new newsletter for details:
https://muddyfaces.co.uk/news/whats-on-oh-so-much-in-may-2

🥚 Easter Weekend 🥚 More activity ideas! 🌺 Hapa Zome Flowers 🌺 👉 https://muddyfaces.co.uk/activities/art-creating/hapa-zome-flowers

💛 Dandelion mark making 💛 🥚 Easter weekend activity inspiration from our OUTDOOR HUB! More dandelion inspiration here 👉 https://muddyfaces.co.uk/activities/inspirations/inspirations-dandelions

💛 Easter BH weekend 💛 activity idea from our OUTDOOR HUB: make some nettle soup https://muddyfaces.co.uk/activities/food-outdoors/nettle-soup

ACTIVE BOUNDARIES - Exclusive to 🤎 Muddy Faces 🤎 - 👀 look out next week when we'll explore squeezes & gaps, tunnels & peepholes! If you want to know more now then check out our OUTDOOR HUB 👉 https://muddyfaces.co.uk/outdoor-hub/active-boundaries

🐝 🌼 May is packed full of events supporting children & nature to thrive - our FREE May events postcard is available to add to your orders now 👍

If you are planning an 🥚Easter Egg Hunt🥚 this weekend, it's not too late to add some lovely wooden eggs to your order. Decorate and then hide them (well, sometimes you can have too much chocolate 😉 )

Look for frogspawn this Easter holiday and if you 💚 🐸 's then you'll love this Frog INSPIRATION activity collection with lots of fun ideas and facts about frogs 👉 https://muddyfaces.co.uk/activities/inspirations/inspirations-frogs

Professor Jan White from Outdoors Thinking has been involved developing the Treescapes a voice for children

Home - Treescapes Voices The Voices of the future project The ‘Voices of the Future’ project aimed to work with diverse children and young peopleto co-develop more hopeful, equitable, resilient treescapes of the future. We aim to integrate children’s and young people’s knowledge, experiences and hopes with scientifi...

ACTIVE BOUNDARIES - Exclusive to🤎 Muddy Faces 🤎

To support children's innate urge to climb we have developed a range of STILES 🙂 - look at our bridge stiles, ladder stiles & footpath stiles! 👉 https://muddyfaces.co.uk/shop/active-boundaries-range

ACTIVE BOUNDARIES - Bridges & Stiles - appeal to children’s innate urge to climb and elevate themselves off the ground even when it is a challenge. Read more here 👉 https://muddyfaces.co.uk/outdoor-hub/active-boundaries/stiles-bridges