30 Days Wild Ideas

30 Days Wild is an intiative by The Wildlife Trusts to encourage you to do one wild thing every day during the month of June. Such a great idea to get children and their families exploring and learning about nature.

This will be our first year taking part. To get organised I’ve come up with 30 ideas of activities for us to do, to help keep us motivated. Obviously what we actually get up to may vary, but it gives lots of options if we get stuck for an idea. If you want to join in with the 30 Days Wild, then pop over to The Wildlife Trusts page to sign up. Hopefully our list of activities (some of which we have done before and have written full tutorials on) will provide you with some inspiration for this challenge if your joining in. You can also search #30DaysWild on social media for lots of other ideas.

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In the Back Garden

• Make bug hotels, insect houses and bug traps
• Plant fruit and vegetable seeds
• Plant wild flowers
• Make a Daisy chain
• Collect and press flowers
• Make a small wildlife pond

Out And About

• Go to a fruit farm and pick berries to make jam
• Build a den
• Do a summer woodland scavenger hunt
• Collect sticks to turn them into fairy wands
• Do some bark rubbings
• Go pond dipping and see what you can identify
• Look for animal tracks and cast a footprint
• Go on a wild flower hunt

Exploring The Shore

• Go crabbing
• Exploring rock pools and see what critters you can find
• Do a Beach Scavenger hunt
• Go Fossil hunting
• Carry out a Beach litter pick
• Splash around in the waves

Nature Inspired Crafts

• Make a Cress Egg Head
• Nature painting
• Make natural dyes and experiment at tie dying
• Make beeswax wraps and candles
• Collect things and make a nature collage
• Make homemade bird feeders and hang them in the garden
• Collect rose petals and make homemade natural perfume
• Design and make a butterfly feeder
• Make a rain measurer and learn about the water cycle
• Use leaves and twigs to create clay imprints

So that’s our 30 Days Wild ideas for this year. I’m sure what we actually get up to may vary somewhat, but it’s a good starting point. I’d love to hear if you are taking part this year in the comments, and if you have any fab ideas you would like to share.

Kerry x