Nature Tots Maidstone (Jan/Feb - Friday morning)
-Nature Tots is Forest School tailored specifically for little ones, and can inspire a love of nature that lasts a lifetime.
Facilities: Picnic area
Family Event: A Wilder Christmas at West Blean and Thornden Woods
-Wrap up warm and join us at Blean to celebrate Christmas with a festive craft, wildlife trail, and treats around the cosy campfire.
Family Event: A Wilder Christmas at Tyland Barn
-Wrap up warm and join us at Tyland Barn to celebrate Christmas with a festive craft, wildlife trail, and treats around the cosy campfire.
Family Event: A Wilder Christmas at Tyland Barn
-Wrap up warm and join us at Tyland Barn to celebrate Christmas with a festive craft, wildlife trail, and treats around the cosy campfire.
Conifers at Bedgebury Pinetum
-Field studies amongst the largest collection of conifers in the UK. Linked to previous day.
Dandelions, Daisies and Thistles: sorting the look-alikes
-Get to grips with the basic features of the largest family of flowering plants
Getting to Know Conifers
-Pine, spruce, larch, fir, cedar, redwood… a classroom introduction to the identification of conifers using their foliage and cones. Linked to the following Study Day ‘Conifers at Bedgebury Pinetum’
Identifying Broad-leaved Trees in Winter
-Learn to how identify native broad-leaved trees and shrubs by their twigs, and buds and bark.
Family Event: Halloween Fun at West Blean
- | -Come and join us at West Blean for some seasonal wildlife crafting, a spooky trail and a warming campfire amongst the trees this Halloween.
Maidstone Home Ed Nature Explorers - Nov/Dec
-Join us for Forest School for the home education community. Discover ways to have fun outdoors and meet new friends. Suitable for ages 4-11.