The Wild Year Book Things to do outdoors through the seasons

by Danks, Fiona; Schofield, Jo

• ISBN13: 9780711239265
• ISBN10: 0711239266
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-07-05
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Summary

Adventures, games and crafts to get you outdoors all the year round.  Playing outdoors should be an essential part of growing up; developing your imagination, keeping fit and letting the wild world weave its magic spell on you.  In The Wild Year Book, Fiona and Jo have selected 70 of their favourite activities to help you enjoy spending time outdoors, season by season.  Perhaps you'll want to play camouflage games in Spring and make enormous bubbles in the summer, challenge your friends to a foraging bake-off in the autumn, or create ice mobiles in the winter. With this book you will never be short of inspiration!

Over 100,000 copies sold of Fiona and Jo's Going Wild series.

Author Biography

Fiona Danks did a degree in Ecology at Edinburgh University followed by a PGCE in Rural and Environmental Science at Bath College of Higher Education. She worked in environmental education for a number of years, first for the Shropshire Wildlife Trust and then for the Berkshire Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, organizing training for teachers and taking groups of children out to nature reserves and other wild sites. She then went on to write books about the Chiltern Hills and the Cotswold Hills while working part-time running activities in a pre-school nursery. She currently runs the Trust for Oxfordshire's Environment, a non-profit making company providing grants for a wide range of community and environmental projects across Oxfordshire. Fiona lives in Watlington in Oxfordshire. Through their website www.goingwild.net Jo and Fiona provide more ideas for outdoor activities and an opportunity for debate on the importance of real world adventures for all young people.

Jo Schofield gained a degree in psychology from Exeter University and began her career working for an educational psychologist in London. After getting involved in the production of a film, she went on to work in the creative department of a TV advertising agency where she began taking still photographs. This led on to her becoming a commercial photographer in Australia and then London. She worked mainly for national editorial magazines such as Country Living. When her children were small she worked in Watlington Primary School and the Dragon school in Oxford, applying her creative knowledge to the classroom with children aged 6-9 years. More recently she has been focusing on writing and photographing for a series of books with co-author Fiona Danks. Jo lives near Watlington in Oxfordshire. Through their website, Jo and Fiona provide more ideas for outdoor activities and an opportunity for debate on the importance of real world adventures for all young people.

For more information on how to encourage children to go outdoors, visit Jo and Fiona's website - www.goingwild.net 

Table of Contents

Going wild
Spring
What is special about spring?
Spring signs
Growing food
Wild boat challenge
Underwater worlds
Nest building
Wild Easter games
Felting
Wild World Book Day
Celebrate forests
Magical mud
Camouflage games
Wildlife spying
May Day Queen
Dawn chorus breakfast adventure
Summer
What is special about summer?
Wild sounds
Meadow minibeast hunting
Bush bugs
Natural stained glass
Nettles are nice!
Elderflower goodies
Fathers’ Day challenges
Perfumes and potions
DIY summer festival
24-hour wildlife challenge
Make a wild bracelet
Wild swimming challenge
Butterflies
Wildlife after dark
Giant bubble games
Wild outdoor holiday games
Wild dolls
Autumn
What is special about autumn?
Wild walk jams
Blackberry tie-dyeing
Foraging bake-off challenge
Wild paints
Wild painting
Become a wild detective
Outdoor Halloween
Wild crowns
Wild music
Elf houses
Autumn jewellery
Leaf mobiles
Rainbow trees
Wild pictures
Boggarts
Leafy games
Winter
What is special about winter?
Story leaves
Wild snowballs
Icy decorations
Ice windows
Pictures in the snow
Broken ice sculptures and pictures
Snow sculpting
Snow and ice lanterns
Wild decorations
New Year’s Day wild challenge
Wild winter games
Night games
Wild wintry beach adventures
Wild Valentine’s day
Wild safety
Index
Acknowledgements