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!
October “little green adventures” Newsletter
Let’s create a today where our children can thrive! Protect our little people and their planet with these easy ideas. Climate Change means the Earth is seeing an unusual change in global temperatures and other weather conditions: rain, storms, rising sea levels… This is caused by polluting gases that thicken the blanket that covers the earth […]
First Green Families Cafe!
Come to our first “Green Families Cafe” for a cup of tea with like-minded parents. We will discuss the plans for the project and hear ideas and concerns.
Sustainable Amersham at the Christmas Festival
Sustainable Amersham will be at the yearly Christmas Festival there to offer ideas on how to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle this Christmas. Make it your ‘greenest’ festive season yet!
Turning “lawns2meadows” at Amersham Hospital
In October, Wild Amersham helped Amersham Hospital turn “lawns2meadows”, restoring the lawns at the hospital to wildflower meadows
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.
Talk on migrating birds
Come to an engaging free online talk to learn about migrating birds near you by Wild Amersham and Prestwood Nature. 8 November at 7.30. Art work by @janeytom.