Summer 2018 has been a truly wonderful one. As well as being the hottest summer we’ve had in a long time, we’ve had a whopping 350 visitors through our doors at Forest Explorers for a whole range of events. From Forest Babies, to Holiday Clubs, to Woodcraft events, there has been something for every member…read more
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Introducing our ‘Forest Babies’ sessions.
We hosted our second Forest Babies session this morning and it was another huge success. The sessions came about after our leader Helena, who created Forest Explorers 6 years ago, failed to find any outdoor nature inspired baby groups she could attend with her 9 month old son. Each session is an hour and a…read more
How important is getting our kids outdoors?
‘With smartphones, tablets, endless TV and the coolest gadgets in the world at their fingertips, it’s easy for kids to forget the outside world exists. So we need to show it to them!’ I recently came across an report by the National Trust all about Natural Childhood. I found it incredibly interesting but also quite…read more
Treemendous Tuesday Tales
Fast becoming some of our most loved events here at Forest Explorers, is our popular Treemendous Tuesday Tales. Always ran on a Tuesday, we run two sessions, one morning session 10-11.30am and an afternoon session 12.30-2.00pm. Each session is themed, and since creating the sessions in April this year, we have enjoyed many popular and fun filled…read more
What to do this Summer at Delamere Forest
With the beautiful weather we are all enjoying recently, and June just around the corner, summer feels like it is well and truly here to stay. Many parents are also beginning to think about activities and things to do during the summer holidays, and during long warm weekends. We think that not just Forest Explorers…read more
What do we do at our Forest School?
‘Forest school is an innovative educational approach to outdoor learning’. Every Wednesday here at Forest Explorers in Delamere Forest, we hold our Forest School sessions. Our forest ‘classroom’ is set aback from our classroom and main forestry area, and is situated in a small peaceful area of the forest fully dedicated to running our Forest…read more
Have a look into our Holiday Club’s.
We thought we’d do a blog post all about our holiday club service. In this blog post, we’re going to show you our successful Easter holiday club that we held on the 11th – 13th April this year. Our holiday clubs are three consecutive days jam packed with outdoor learning, building skills and boosting children’s…read more
A day in the life of…. A School visit to Forest Explorers.
We’ve had an amazing day with Rudston Primary School from Liverpool today. To get to know a bit more about how we run our school visits, we thought it would fun to show you what we get up to on a brilliant day. Now we always say fun can be had in the forest, come…read more
Nature is a playground
Seeing yet another amazing but man made climbing frame being installed into a local school’s playground has got me thinking…. Why are we “prescribing” more play instead of allowing children to develop play themselves, interacting with each other, role playing, using their imaginations and creativity. Installing yet another piece of expensive play equipment …is it…read more