Have a look at some ideas of activities you can do at home and in nature with your children to explore various areas of sustainability. Have fun and create a world where our children can thrive!
Pounds & pennies for our future
Money is the tool we constantly use in our lives to do things: to buy food, to clothe ourselves, to have fun and to keep us dry and warm at home. It can also be a tool to change things and support what we believe in.
How about using a bit of time today to talk to our kids about what money is, where we get it from, what it can be used for and how the way we spend it can change the place we live in?
No Mow May with Kids
Take part in No-Mow-May. By simply not mowing your lawn for a month, your patch of green, big or small, has great potential to provide food and shelter for insects.
Earth Day Family Art & Act
Our Earth also needs our help to protect it from all the harmful activities our society brings. This is why on the 22nd of April billions of people celebrate Earth Day to make a stand and show that they care for this, our precious home.
Why not take a step at home to show you care while getting your creative juices going?
Organic farming
Have you ever wondered how the lovely meat, fruits and veggies you love get to your plate?
Organic farmers are trying to bring more balance to this process making use of less impactful ways of managing their farms.
Community food
Food is the fuel of our lives, powering everything we do. It also brings our culture to life and creates lovely connections with those around us.
However, the way our food is produced costs our environment dearly. The food we waste causes a lot of polluting gases.
In this eco-project we explore some clever ideas to minimise the food we waste!
Mother’s Day crafting
Mother’s day is coming! A moment to celebrate that most beautiful (if sometimes challenging) relationship between a mother and her children.
Why not exchange a truly special home-made gift that gets the kids entertained and is a bit kinder to the planet?
Walk in and for Nature
January has been a tough month full of storms, freezing cold spells and bouts of flu. As we turn the corner and start a warmer
Be a green gardener
This year get together with your children to cultivate some of your own vegetables. It is an immensely fun, soothing and rewarding activity as they dig their little hands in the soil, watching seeds grow into something that you can have for dinner!
New Year clean-up
With all the Christmas gifting we all start January with a home so full of toys that they spill out of every drawer and cupboard. A year-start declutter is due!
Keep the warmth at home
Winter is long, dark and cold and having a warm home is a blessing. However, homes in the UK mostly use gas boilers that release lots of polluting gases (around 11% of a household’s emissions). This, together with the rising cost of energy, makes keeping the warmth in really important to both planet and pocket.
Toy & Costume Swap at Amersham Library
Our first ever “little green adventures” Toy & Costume Swap is coming to Amersham Library on Saturday the 24th of February from 10-12 am. Thinking
Leftover pie creations
With so much food to buy for Christmas it is impossible not to have quite a bit of leftovers. Yet about a third of all food gets wasted causing a lot of polluting gases.
Try making a family game out of reusing things you have left from Christmas Day. Gather all left overs (turkey, chicken, sauces, stuffing, veggies, fruit) and let the kids run riot and make up their own pies. Bake them and enjoy!
Green Christmas Crafts
Green Christmas Crafting!
Christmas is wonderful, stressful and challenging in equal measures.
Try these crafting activities to keep the kids entertained while practising the Reduce-reuse mantra.
A letter to Santa from the whole family!
Buying presents is exhausting, time-consuming and expensive! It also costs the environment dearly with tons of unwanted items.
Why not try to help ourselves and the planet by sitting down as a family and writing a letter to Santa? Get some treats out and reflect on what would truly bring us joy next year.
Share the letters around to your loved ones and help them with their own Christmas shopping!
Enjoy our woods in Autumn
Enjoy the changing colour ranges with a roam around our local forests. Here go some forest activities:
Identify our trees with an app or try a print out guide
How about following Zog’s Trail at Wendover Woods?
Try leaf crafts!
Listen! Try to identify local birdsong with an audio guide
Move greener with our Trip Planner
Travelling produces 25% of our personal polluting gases. Yet we need to move to do all the things we need to do in life!!
Our Trip Planner invites your family to explore this issue by planning a few of your monthly trips together as you learn about the different options we have and what that means in terms of the pollution we create. It has some colouring and joining games and a bit of learning for every age!
Cooking with the seasons
What could be nicer than fresh fruit and veg at its seasonal best? Explore eating seasonably to experience the joy of eating fruit and vegetables at their peak of perfection: fresher, tastier, better value and better for the planet!
Try planning and cooking a recipe with seasonal veggies with our “Cooking with the seasons” activity sheets. Full of colouring, cutting, pasting and thinking! Or just explore the Eat seasonably calendar.