Use these guides by the TCV Manchester team to look out for signs of the different seasons and various animals during your outdoor walks, and tick off each one you spot along the way. You’ll also find an activity sheet to complete a mindfulness walk, noting what you hear, feel, see and smell.
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Activity Resources
A collection of nature-based activities produced by TCV teams across the UK.
TCV’s activity packs, how-to guides and videos are ideal for all ages. Use these resources to get outdoors in a green space with a mindful activity. They’re also great for home-schooling children when needed or kick-starting their passion for the natural world.
Nature Walks - Activities Pack
Froggy Activity Sheets
For lots of ‘unfrogettable’ activities, head to TCV Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park’s page where you can download quizzes, recipe sheets, and colouring in activities all focused on frogs!
How to Make a Mammal Footprint Tunnel
Our team in Scotland along with Glasgow Science Centre gives an overview of how to make a mammal footprint tunnel as part of our HogWatch Scotland citizen science project.
Nature Activities To Do At Home
The little book of nature activities to do at home was created by our team in Leeds as a way to bring nature into your everyday life to benefit both your mental and physical wellbeing. Activities include growing tomatoes and spotting plants and animals, aligned to the 5 steps to mental wellbeing.
Children's Outdoor Activities
Hunting for bugs, building a den, and making a boat and tree decorations – it’s all covered in these children’s guides for activities outdoors.
Bringing The Outdoors In!
TCV Scotland have put together a resource pack chock full of nature activities for indoors, in your garden or in the park. It includes tips for looking after the wildlife in your own garden through to nature-based craft ideas.
Wild Wednesday Videos and Activity Sheets
TCV Waltham Forest are running a weekly Wild Wednesday educational video series with fantastic volunteer, Olivia. Learn how to identify birds in your garden and hear fascinating insights into the world of wildlife.
View the series and accompanying activity sheets on their Twitter page.
Easy Read Picture Recipe Book
5 simple recipes using healthy fruit and vegetables, including a simple tomato salad and scrumptious rhubarb cake. This was created by TCV Manchester as part of our Growing Trafford’s Roots project, which explores the heritage of market gardening with young people with disabilities.
Nature Explorers with Stick Man!
Another one from our Waltham Forest Team, originally recorded for our Under 5’s sessions in Lloyd Park, London. Here Hannah reads through Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Stick Man book to spark the imagination of little ones when exploring your local park. Plus, make your very own stick man!
Make a Woolly Bird
Get crafting with our team in Northern Ireland. Make your own woolly bird using a few simple materials and this step-by-step guide.
TCV elsewhere
Head over to TCV’s blogs where you’ll find a collection of things to read, such as ways to keep active or more recipe ideas from our TCV Birmingham’s Health for Life team
The Nature activities at our Conservation Handbooks page are perfect for children and adults alike
Explore how to grow your own trees with this comprehensive resource
TCV Youtube Channel
…and finally, TCV’s YouTube channel hosts many of our team’s videos, with activities such as printing with potatoes, how to make a hanging planter, and sowing seeds and recipes with your homegrown produce.