New episode of Animals, Nature, and You!
🌳Tina Brower Kraska, the founder of Red Oaks Forest School, shares the importance of child-led exploration and the benefits of outdoor learning.

(Link to full episode in below⤵️)

#ForestSchool #ConnectToNature #NaturePlay #GetOutside

April Fools’ at Acorn 🌿😄

After a month of Movement, Mud & Mindfulness, today’s creativity peaked:
The children insisted their mud pies were real pies!!! “proper tasty ones!”
And their forest potions?
Apparently the special ingredient. 🧪🥧😉

#AprilFools #EarlyYears #ForestSchool #AcornEarlyYears

Signs of Spring: Subtle Clues that Tell You Spring is Near or Here! Signs of Spring Scavenger Hunt! Ever wonder how to tell or know when spring is near? Discover the universal signs that spring is here with this fun and educational science learning activity. Then, go outside to search for the first signs of spring with the nature scavenger hunt idea for kids and adults. This spring activity with printable scavenger hunt makes it easy to teach preschoolers, kindergarteners, and school-aged children about spring, and study nature and the changing seasons.

The first signs of spring are starting to show up if you look closely enough. These simple activities from Rhythms of Play are designed for that exact in-between moment, with printables you can take outside right now.

#ECE #KidsActivities #Spring #NatureSky #ForestSchool

@ecobirmingham *Wild Holiday Bunch* #kids #ouydoor #activities for #Easter break to participate in #forestschool activities for fun and learning about #nature

#GreatFen #RamseyHeights #Cambridgeshire #Volunteer #OpenDy #10thApril #Huntingdon #ForestSchool #guidedwalk #schoolvisit
@greatfen.org.uk
@wildlifebcn.org

The bookings are open, places available.
coastandforest.co.uk/training-cou...

#forestschoolleader
#forestschool
#cpd
#somerset
#hertfordshire

Starts Monday!

Our Easter Forest School Clubs are nearly full. Campfires, nature play, climbing, creativity and woodland adventures across Salcey, Cold Harbour and Emberton.
Book now: www.acornearlyyears.org.uk/Pages/Category/holiday-clubs

#ForestSchool #EasterHolidays #OutdoorLearning

Last Friday this bunch had a great session at Forest School; preparing a tomato pasta on the fire as well as some great woodland crafting! Oh and hot chocolate for all! 💜🔥🪵🍅🍝💜 #ForestSchool #OutdoorLearning #TeamWork

Don't miss our #volunteer open day on Friday 10th April! Meet the team, see how you can get involved with our events and education activities, try some of our practical skill work and enjoy a guided walk.
#volunteeringopportunity #cambridgeshire #huntingdon #forestschool #guidedwalk #schoolvisit

🌿 Forest School moments: spring discoveries, nature crafts & outdoor learning. 🐣 Easter Forest School Holiday Club starts Mon 30 March...here is your last‑minute nudge:

www.acornearlyyears.org.uk/Pages/Category/holiday-clubs

#ForestSchool #OutdoorLearning #EasterHolidayClub #NaturePlay #EarlyYears

Kids and teachers enjoying a summer day swimming in a creek and creating art outdoors at a forest school in Kentucky's Red River Gorge. Beautiful trees tower above the creek and the sky is the perfect blue.

For #ForestFriday, I give you a scene from my kid's wonderful #forestschool from last summer 🏞️✨

From building the 'Field of Dreams' at @Stramash to my now bigger role scaling those dreams further, my mission remains the same perserving the magic of child-led, outdoor play.

I'm here to talk #OutdoorPlay, secure attachment, and more. Who’s outside with me? 🌲🍂 #EYFS #ForestSchool #NaturePlay"

#dewi taking photographs of wildlife in #forestschool this morning #expressivearts

#dewi taking photographs of wildlife in #forestschool this morning #expressivearts

Our Clayton-le-Woods Forest School is Open: Outdoor Learning for Under-5s Our Clayton-le-Woods Forest School re-opens from January 2026. Explore the benefits of nature-based learning for under-fives in a nurturing early years setting.

#ForestSchool has always been an important part of #LittleAcornsNursery near #Chorley. We’re delighted to share that after dedicated staff training, careful preparation & planning, we will shortly be welcoming children back to outdoor learning. 🐞 🌳 🐸
www.littleacornsnursery.school/clayton-fore...

An illustration of different weather effects

Easy spring kids activit: Set up a 'weather station' with a paper map, a clipboard, and a window view and invite kids to give a daily spring weather report: temperature estimate, cloud types, and any signs of spring. Record the observations.

#kidsactivities #naturesky #forestschool #outdoorlearning

Our Home Ed group explored Viking history at Salcey Forest this week. Shield making, braiding and rune writing! ⚔️🌿🔥
Can you translate this Elder Futhark word?

ᚠᛟᚱᛖᛋᛏ

Guess below!
#ForestSchool #HomeEd #Vikings #Runes

We’re proud to support St Patrick’s RC School (Newport) to launch a Forest School after-school club for RADY learners in Year 4. 🌿 Outdoor learning will help disadvantaged pupils build confidence, wellbeing and engagement with learning.

#ForestSchool #RADY #DisadvantagedLearners

A great collaboration with Melanie Lynch and Carol Barrett to make these portraits of children from a forest school in the west of Ireland which will feature in an exhibition at @bioneers.org in Berkeley, California this month.

#portraits #forestschool #ireland #documentaryphotography #exhibition

Sussex Wildlife Trust hiring a Wilder Learning Officer — apply by 17 April 2026. Bluebell flower background.

Could you help people of all ages get inspired in the outdoors? 

We're looking for a Wilder Learning Officer. 

https://f.mtr.cool/qomvczeeqq

#NatureBasedEducation #GreenJobs #ForestSchool #WildBeach

20 Ways To Celebrate the Spring Equinox with Kids Celebrate the arrive of the Spring Equinox with this lesson and list of over 20 different activities, experiments and projects to celebrate.

Celebrate the spring equinox with these fun ideas from @steampoweredfamily.bsky.social!

https://www.steampoweredfamily.com/spring-equinox/

#spring #firstdayofspring #naturesky #forestschool #outdoorlearning #ECE #kidsactivities

What a great day at Forest School last week. The team cooked bannocks on the fire, created great paracord keyrings and there was lots of team exploring on our new @holmbush.farm site. 💜🔥🪵🌳💜 #ForestSchool #LOtC #OutdoorSkills

#dwynwen makin dens in #forestschool this morning #expressivearts

Boy in black and white stripe t-shirt and black shorts standing on gray concrete pathway. Photo by Kasumi Sasaki on Unsplash.

Going outside with kids? Make a simple list together before heading out: something poking through soil, something with a bud, something a bird might use for a nest, something that smells like outside again.

#kidsactivities #natureplay #forestschool #naturesky

Children loved using a hand drill, hammer and nails to make threading boards! 🌿🔨 Brilliant tool work and safe risk-taking.

Easter Holiday Club is nearly full—book now! 🐣 Link in bio.

#forestschool #toolwork #woodwork #risktaking #handtools #easterholidayclub

This site is chock full of fabulous outdoor/natural spring play inspiration! 😍🌱👏 #forestschool #naturesky #outdoorlearning #earlychildhood #kidsactivities #natureplay

Visit Stomping in the Mud: https://stompinginthemud.blogspot.com/

#dyfrig bird-identification in #forestschool this morning #expressivearts. We decided to make our own bird id booklet!

Last year, Christine and I made a joint decision to take on co-leadership of @outletscot.bsky.social after our founder stepped down.

I am so lucky to have had her by my side through this experience - not sure I would have got to this point without her! Read about her own #ForestSchool journey👇

Child walking across green grass holding a stick

Bookmark this nature play for a rainy day: After rain, take sticks outside and redirect puddle water — dig a small channel, build a twig dam, float a leaf boat and time how long it takes to reach the drain.

#kidsactivities #natureplay #naturesky #spring #forestschool

The #pond at #forestschool @colfesschool was very busy. The children counted 17 #frogs and we have lots of #frogspawn and more to come. The first time I have seen frogs actually lay their eggs so very exciting. #pondlife