**Note: This page is for educational inspiration and is not officially affiliated with '30 Days Wild’. '30 Days Wild’ is an annual nature challenge organised by The Wildlife Trusts across the UK. For official information, daily challenges, and how to get involved, please visit The Wildlife Trusts website: www.wildlifetrusts.org/30DaysWild.
30 Days Wild: Monday 1st - Tuesday 30th June 2026
The Big Wild Weekend: TBA
Understanding '30 Days Wild’ & ‘The Big Wild Weekend’ in EYFS & KS1
Let's step outside and get wild with nature! 🌳🦋🐞 '30 Days Wild’ is a fantastic nature challenge that happens every June, organised by The Wildlife Trusts across the UK. It's all about doing one 'wild thing' every day for a whole month! This doesn't mean doing something huge, but simply taking a moment to connect with the nature around us – like listening to birds sing, watching a bee buzz by, feeling the wind on our faces, or planting a tiny seed. It encourages us to notice the small wonders of the natural world and helps us feel happier and more connected to our amazing planet. It's a brilliant way to explore, learn, and appreciate the wild places, big or small, right on our doorstep! Towards the end of June, 30 Days Wild culminates in The Big Wild Weekend, typically held over the last weekend of June. This special weekend is a peak celebration, inspiring people to spend even more time immersed in nature, often through local events organised by Wildlife Trusts, or by creating their own wild adventures. It's a chance to consolidate the month's nature connection and truly embrace the wild.
For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this initiative provides a wonderful and highly engaging framework for daily outdoor learning, exploring wildlife, plants, habitats, seasons, the environment, science (observation and discovery), and understanding the world (the natural world). It's about fostering curiosity, encouraging mindful observation, and nurturing a lifelong love and respect for nature. '30 Days Wild’ offers fantastic planning ideas and inspiration for integrating short, impactful activities & invitations that truly resonate with young minds, making learning about nature and conservation wonderfully hands-on!
Why Is Connecting with Nature Through '30 Days Wild’ Valuable for Young Children?
Integrating '30 Days Wild’ and daily nature connections into your practice with young children (aged 0-7) is great for holistic development, fostering well-being, and laying the groundwork for future environmental stewardship.
Boosts well-being: Spending time in nature reduces stress, improves mood, and enhances physical activity.
Encourages Curiosity & Exploration: Sparks questions, promotes hands-on discovery, and develops observational skills.
Develops Sensory Awareness: Engages all senses – seeing, hearing, touching, smelling – to experience the natural world.
Fosters Empathy & Respect for Wildlife: Builds an appreciation for living creatures and their habitats, encouraging care and protection.
Supports Cognitive Development: Introduces concepts of patterns, cycles, and relationships within ecosystems.
Enhances Creativity & Imagination: Provides open-ended opportunities for imaginative play and artistic expression inspired by nature.
Promotes Environmental Responsibility: Cultivates a personal connection to nature, inspiring a desire to protect it.
Engaging 'Wild' Activities for '30 Days Wild’ (EYFS & KS1)
Let's embrace the outdoors and celebrate 30 Days Wild with these playful ideas, provision enhancements and learning opportunities inspired by children's natural curiosity about the world around them. The focus is on noticing, exploring and connecting with nature through simple, meaningful experiences that can be enjoyed every day.
Many of these early years and year 1 activities can be supported by our dedicated ‘Wildlife’, ‘Animals’, ‘Plants’, ‘Minibeasts’, ‘Habitats’, and ‘The Environment’ resources.
Here's some inspiration for celebrating '30 Days Wild’ in your setting. The following ideas may be adapted for various EYFS and KS1 settings. In EYFS, these ideas are best viewed as invitations to explore and enhancements to provision rather than activities every child is expected to complete. Practitioners may choose to follow children's interests, questions and play patterns, using these resources flexibly. In KS1, some ideas may also be used within more structured teaching sequences where appropriate. Printable resources to support the following ideas may be found further down this page.
(Please use your own discretion and knowledge of your children to ensure appropriateness of each activity or enhancement and safety concerning any materials given and activity undertaken. Encourage gentle interaction and respect for all living things.)
🌿 Nature Observation & Wildlife Discovery
30 Days Wild encourages children to slow down, notice details and become curious about the living things sharing their environment.
Children might:
Search for minibeasts in different habitats.
Observe birds visiting the outdoor area.
Compare leaves, flowers, seeds and natural materials.
Look for signs of seasonal change.
Notice animal tracks, nests or feeding areas.
Record discoveries through drawing, photography or mark making.
Our minibeast resources, birdwatching materials, plant resources and wildlife fact cards can help support these investigations.
Additional Provision Enhancements
Create a nature investigation station with magnifiers and clipboards.
Set up a bug hotel observation area.
Add identification guides to outdoor provision.
Create a birdwatching window or outdoor observation point.
Provide collecting trays for natural treasures.
Encourage children to photograph interesting discoveries.
🐞 Habitats, Animals & Caring for Wildlife
Exploring habitats helps children understand how living things depend on one another and on their environment.
Children might:
Learn about local wildlife and where animals live.
Explore food chains and animal needs.
Compare different habitats.
Discover how people can help wildlife.
Talk about endangered species and conservation.
Investigate how animals are adapted to their environments.
Our animal, habitat, bird and wildlife resources can help enrich these discussions and explorations.
Additional Provision Enhancements
Build simple bug hotels using natural materials.
Create bird feeders for outdoor spaces.
Develop a small wildlife-friendly planting area.
Add animal figures and habitat resources to small world provision.
Create shelter-building challenges outdoors.
Provide loose parts for children to design habitats.
🌱 Growing, Gardening & Environmental Stewardship
Gardening offers children opportunities to care for living things and observe change over time.
Children might:
Plant seeds and monitor their growth.
Water and care for plants.
Explore plant life cycles.
Compare different types of seeds.
Learn about pollinators and their importance.
Investigate what plants need to grow.
Our gardening resources, life cycle materials and STEM challenges can support these experiences.
Additional Provision Enhancements
Create a planting station indoors or outdoors.
Grow herbs, vegetables or wildflowers.
Encourage children to keep simple growth diaries.
Explore composting and recycling.
Collect seeds from plants and flowers.
Create a sensory garden area.
🍃 Mindfulness, Senses & Nature Connection
Spending time outdoors provides rich opportunities for sensory exploration, calm reflection and wellbeing.
Children might:
Listen to birdsong and natural sounds.
Feel different textures in nature.
Notice colours, patterns and shapes outdoors.
Explore natural scents and seasonal changes.
Talk about how outdoor spaces make them feel.
Engage in mindful observation activities.
Our mindfulness scavenger hunts, sensory prompts and outdoor learning resources can help support these experiences.
Additional Provision Enhancements
Create a nature listening spot.
Introduce sensory scavenger hunts.
Make transient art using natural materials.
Encourage cloud watching and sky observation.
Provide nature journals for sketching and reflection.
Create a quiet outdoor wellbeing area.
🎨 Creative Exploration Inspired by Nature
Nature provides endless inspiration for creativity, storytelling and imaginative play.
Children might:
Create artwork using natural materials.
Make transient art patterns.
Build dens and imaginative outdoor worlds.
Tell stories inspired by wildlife.
Create maps of outdoor spaces.
Use natural materials in construction and small world play.
Our outdoor learning, wildlife and creative resources can help extend these opportunities.
Additional Provision Enhancements
Create nature weaving frames.
Offer clay alongside natural materials.
Make leaf rubbings and bark prints.
Build fairy gardens or wildlife worlds.
Create natural loose-parts construction areas.
Use sticks, stones and leaves for collaborative art.
🌎 Caring for Our Environment
30 Days Wild also provides opportunities to help children develop an appreciation for caring for the natural world.
Children might:
Discuss how to look after plants and animals.
Explore recycling and reusing materials.
Help keep outdoor spaces tidy.
Learn about reducing waste.
Notice the impact people can have on nature.
Our environment, recycling and conservation & endangered animal resources can support these conversations.
Additional Provision Enhancements
Organise a simple litter pick.
Create sorting stations for recycling.
Reuse materials in creative projects.
Plant pollinator-friendly flowers.
Discuss ways to help local wildlife.
Create posters encouraging care for nature.
🔍 Explore More
To support your 30 Days Wild adventures and encourage deeper exploration of wildlife and nature, please visit our extensive collection of educational materials on pages such as:
Animals • Autumn • Beach School’ • Birds • Endangered Animals • Fish • Forest School • Gardening • Habitats’ • Invertebrates • Life Cycles • Mammals • Minibeast • Ocean • Out and About • Plants • Polar • Recycling • Reptiles • Spring • The Environment • Under the Sea • Wetlands • Wildlife’ • Winter • Woodland (Temperate)
These ideas and provision enhancements offer meaningful ways to celebrate 30 Days Wild in EYFS and KS1 settings. By encouraging observation, exploration and connection with the natural world, practitioners can help children develop curiosity, environmental awareness, respect for living things and a lifelong appreciation of nature.
To explore ideas surrounding additional early years events, please visit our 'Special Dates Calendar' page.
Printable resources to support teaching & learning surrounding: ‘30 Days Wild’ & ‘The Big Wild Weekend’
Free Wildlife activities for EYFS & KS1:
Use these ‘Growing Sunflower Cards’ as part of an interactive display or invitation to play activity. Children may enjoy moving the cards around to place them in the correct order to show how the sunflower seed grows into a plant. Shrunk down they could become part of an individual take home cut and stick activity with an extension that children could write the numbers 1-6 on each picture to further demonstrate their understanding of the order.
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‘…has got green fingers!’ Gardening Certificate.
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These challenge cards are to be used as prompts for a STEM session.
(Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics)
The challenges are intended to be open ended and non-specific to encourage independent thinking in the children.
3 x STEM prompt cards included in this sample pack, plus a blank one for your own ideas.
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These Winter themed challenge cards are to be used as prompts for a STEM session.
(Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics)
The challenges are intended to be open ended and non-specific to encourage independent thinking in the children.
3 x WINTER STEM prompt cards included in this sample pack, plus a blank one for your own ideas.
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Garden Birdwatch Mat featuring 5 UK garden birds. We have decided to focus on the most iconic and distinct looking birds you may see in a UK Garden in order to encourage young children to look closely at clear similarities and differences between a handful of birds, rather than confuse them with too many. Ideal for 1-6 year olds. Magpie, Blackbird, Robin, Blue Tit and Pigeon.
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Cut along the vertical lines on these UK Bird themed number slice puzzles and allow your children to order numbers to reveal the correct sequence and picture as they place the pieces in the right order! Great for fine motor, problem solving, observational skills, number recognition and ordering. Cut and stick use once activity or laminate to use time and time again.
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These endless puzzles are perfect to show the cyclic nature of life cycles. For example in the first instance the frog puzzle may be placed in the order ‘frogspawn’, ‘tadpole’, ‘froglet’ and then ‘frog’. To demonstrate to children that the frog then lays frogspawn, the ‘frogspawn’ piece may be brought to connect with the ‘frog’ piece at the end and thus continuing the cycle. This process can continue for as long as you like, bringing the ‘tadpole’ piece to then end and then the ‘froglet’ piece and so on!
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This hedgehog subitising (subitizing) game encourages children to spot the hedgehogs with the appropriate number of dots (in different formations). ‘How quickly can we match all of the hedgehogs to the correct piles of cosy leaves?’
You may want to add an element of challenge with a timer, e.g. ‘Can we get all of the hedgehogs to their safe hiding spots before the timer runs out?’ (We would advise beginning without a timer and then only adding this element to progress the game once children are becoming confident. Start with a time which is definitely achievable.)
Choose the appropriate pack for your child(ren): Subitising to 3, 5 or 10. Other 2 packs available here.
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Numbers 0-20 (and corresponding number of spots for 1:1 correspondence counting) on hedgehogs. Create a hedgehog number line, or place appropriate number hedgehogs for your child(ren) in a tuff spot along with Autumn themed loose parts. Can children count out the correct number of loose parts to give their hedgehog? Or play an ordering game…Can you place the hedgehogs in the right order? Or perhaps play which hedgehog is missing? After placing the hedgehogs in order, take one away. Can your child(ren) work out which one is missing?
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These checklists are to promote mindfulness and awareness of surroundings when in a beach setting. This activity is intended to help children engage their senses to better notice and appreciate the environment around them.
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Once laminated these Beach Shell Multimats are ideal to be used as reusable playdough or loose part mats. Alternatively, use them in conjunction with whiteboard pens. Without lamination these sheets may also be used with mark making tools or art and craft materials.
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These cards can be laminated for repeated use. Each of the six beach habitat creatures has a dotted line card and a card with a blank space.
Use the laminated cards with whiteboard pens or alternatively use the first card as stimulus e.g. using your finger or stick on the beach in the sand or at home in your sand tray.
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This ‘Minibeast Hunt Activity Pack’ includes a variety of resources to help inspire and engage adults and children alike.
The activity card plan breaks down key elements of the activity into sections: You will need, Activity description, Extra challenge, Development Matters statements (from Understanding the World), Key vocabulary, Key questions and Additional resources.
Also included in the pack are various handy printables such as a ‘Family Fun’ homework handout, checklist prompts, relevant word cards/mats, mark making sheets and posters.
In addition, the ‘Minibeast Hunt’ poster within this pack is designed to be used in conjunction with our ‘Science Banners’ pack which includes a space for activity posters from each of the ‘Science Activity Packs’ (of which this is one). You may like to set up a ‘Science Activity/Investigation/Experiment’ area (all of these banners are available) and swap in and out the posters from within our activity packs.
We hope you find this pack useful and you all have fun!
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Use these fine motor butterfly sheets once for pencil control practise or laminate and encourage children to take it in turns with whiteboard pens to practise making the different shapes.
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Mega pack of Animal colouring pictures…49 sheets of individual animals to colour including their names.
Great for fine motor, observational skills, colour choice and becoming aware that text has meaning.
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Minibeasts themed checklist (updated 2020 larger border version). Your children will love to use this as part of an out and about searching activity (for example finding real minibeasts in your outdoor area) or in conjunction with a 'Minibeasts' themed tuff spot or feely bag.
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Our Zoo Animals colouring sheets pack includes each animal with its name and footprint. Animals included are Chimpanzee, Zebra, Tiger, Poison Dart Frog, Lion, Meerkat, Rhinoceros, Wolf, Sea Lion, Komodo Dragon, Giraffe, Flamingo, Elephant and Penguin.
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Print one to a page for a large display or fewer for a smaller display or flashcards for use in games and activities.
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Versatile zoo animal border paper. Files include colour and black and white versions.
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Count the Zoo Animals from 0 to 20. Print one or two numbers to a page for use as part of a display or more to a page for a set of flashcards. Ideal sheets to practise 1:1 correspondence counting (where children place their fingers on the objects as they count them). Also great for learning written numbers and knowledge of animals.
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‘Signs of Spring’ cards. Ideal for use as part of a Spring display to visually highlight the changes that happen following Winter. Cards can also be used as a great stimulus for communication and language. When used as part of a display or offered as part of an invitation to play children may initiate communication to you or other children about the cards in a child led fashion. Alternatively, adult led interaction could include closed or open ended questioning. Younger children may point to familiar objects when prompted e.g. ‘Where’s the tree?’ and learn new words as you describe to them what is in the picture. As children progress, more ground may be covered such as ‘What colours can you see?’, ‘How many ducklings are there in this picture?’, ‘Which is your favourite card?’, ‘Why do you like this picture the best?’, ‘What do you think this tree would look like in the Winter?’, ‘Have you seen any of these signs of Spring?’, ‘Where?’, ‘When?’, ‘Who were you with?’, ‘Shall we go outside and see which of them we can find?’
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Designed as part of the ‘Helping Wildlife in Winter’ set, this pack of mats can be used for multiple learning intentions. For example…
Learning about robins and what they eat
Learning that birds and small animals can be helped during the difficult winter months
Development of fine motor control using mark making tools
Refining observational skills
Improving concentration
Communication and Language development
Ideal for multiple uses with whiteboard pens after lamination.
More resources regarding ‘Helping Wildlife in Winter’ HERE.
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Small birds and animals can find it difficult through the winter months. Here’s a poster of visual reminders which you may like to display in your setting as a discussion point and/or stimulus for activity. It depicts things you may like to think about with your children to help your local wildlife
More resources regarding ‘Helping Wildlife in Winter’ on our ‘National Robin Day’ page.
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Pack includes 3 pages: poster for display and modelling, version with blank labels for writing, plus a writing template with initial sounds for labels.
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Wildlife activities & ideas for EYFS & KS1:
These activity cards contain ideas to promote mindfulness and awareness of surroundings when in a woodland setting.
The activities are intended to give the children time and space to think about the environment around them and their own interactions with it.
16 activity cards included.
Activities, Wildlife, Observation, All Year Round - Wildlife, Mindfulness, Senses, Challenges, Posters/Displays, Cards/Flashcards, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Autumn page, Winter page
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These prompt cards are to promote mindfulness and awareness of surroundings when in a woodland setting.
This activity is intended to help children engage their senses to better notice and appreciate the environment around them.
18 prompt cards included.
Activities, Wildlife, Observation, All Year Round - Wildlife, Mindfulness, Senses, Problem Solving, Challenges, Posters/Displays, Cards/Flashcards, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Autumn page, Winter page, Birds, Animal Homes, Nightingale, Minibeasts, Invertebrates, Ladybird, Bird's Nest, Bird's Eggs, Spider's Web, Ant, Spider
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These checklists are to promote mindfulness and awareness of surroundings when in a woodland setting.
This activity is intended to help children engage their senses to better notice and appreciate the environment around them.
Activities, Wildlife, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Observation, Take Home, Pencil Control, Fine Motor, All Year Round - Wildlife, Mindfulness, Senses, Checklists/Tally Charts, Autumn page, Winter page, Spider's Web, Spider, Animal Homes, Ant, Birds, Nightingale, Minibeasts, Invertebrates, Ladybird, Bird's Nest, Bird's Eggs
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This matching puzzle has a different connection for each set to allow the children to self-correct.
The intention of the resource is not necessarily for children to learn the different leaf types. It is more to think about the colour changes that a leaf undergoes as the seasons change.
7 puzzles included: sycamore, oak, horse chestnut, beech, ash, London plane & black poplar.
Puzzles, Games, Activities, Uses shapes, Colours, Observation, Problem Solving, Fine Motor, Trees, All Year Round - Wildlife, Discussion Prompts, Autumn page
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This matching puzzle has a different connection for each set to allow the children to self-correct.
The intention of the resource is not necessarily for children to learn the different egg types. It is more to become aware that eggs from different birds can look very different.
10 puzzles included: pigeon, nightingale, tree sparrow, robin, buzzard, magpie, blackbird, blue tit, barn owl & swallow.
Puzzles, Games, Activities, Uses shapes, Colours, Observation, Fine Motor, Problem Solving, Birds, All Year Round - Wildlife, Animals, Bird's Eggs, Pigeon, Nightingale, Sparrow, Robin, Buzzard, Magpie, Blackbird, Blue Tit, Owl, Swallow, Life Cycles
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These fact cards can be used as part of a display or as a stimulus for discussion, writing and drawing before or after time spent in a woodland setting.
10 cards included: pigeon, nightingale, tree sparrow, robin, buzzard, magpie, blackbird, blue tit, barn owl & swallow.
Observation, Birds, All Year Round - Wildlife, Fact Cards, Posters/Displays, Cards/Flashcards, Number Recognition, Measures - Length, Life Cycles, Animals, Discussion Prompts, Winter page, Pigeon, Sparrow, Nightingale, Buzzard, Robin, Magpie, Blackbird, Owl, Blue Tit, Swallow
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These fact cards can be used as part of a display or as a stimulus for discussion, writing and drawing before or after time spent in a woodland setting.
10 cards included: pigeon, nightingale, tree sparrow, robin, buzzard, magpie, blackbird, blue tit, barn owl & swallow.
Observation, Birds, All Year Round - Wildlife, Fact Cards, Posters/Displays, Cards/Flashcards, Number Recognition, Measures - Length, Life Cycles, Animals, Discussion Prompts, Winter page, Blue Tit, Owl, Sparrow, Swallow, Blackbird, Robin, Magpie, Pigeon, Buzzard, Nightingale
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These fact cards can be used as part of a display or as a stimulus for discussion, writing and drawing before or after time spent in a woodland setting.
10 cards included: Sycamore, Oak, Horse Chestnut, Beech, Ash, Scots Pine, Western Hemlock, London Plane, Black Poplar & Holly.
Observation, All Year Round - Wildlife, Fact Cards, Posters/Displays, Cards/Flashcards, Number Recognition, Measures - Length, Trees, Discussion Prompts, Autumn page, Winter page
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These fact cards can be used as part of a display or as a stimulus for discussion, writing and drawing before or after time spent in a woodland setting.
10 cards included: Sycamore, Oak, Horse Chestnut, Beech, Ash, Scots Pine, Western Hemlock, London Plane, Black Poplar & Holly.
Observation, All Year Round - Wildlife, Fact Cards, Posters/Displays, Cards/Flashcards, Number Recognition, Measures - Length, Trees, Discussion Prompts, Autumn page, Winter page
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These fact cards can be used as part of a display or as a stimulus for discussion, writing and drawing before or after time spent in a woodland setting.
10 cards included: Fox, Squirrel, Frog, Badger, Deer, Rabbit, Bank Vole, Long-Eared Bat, Slow Worm & Hedgehog.
Observation, All Year Round - Wildlife, Fact Cards, Posters/Displays, Cards/Flashcards, Number Recognition, Measures - Length, Animals, Discussion Prompts, Autumn page, Winter page, Fox, Squirrel, Frog, Badger, Deer, Rabbit, Vole, Bat, Slow Worm, Hedgehog, Mammals, Amphibians
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These fact cards can be used as part of a display or as a stimulus for discussion, writing and drawing before or after time spent in a woodland setting.
10 cards included: Fox, Squirrel, Frog, Badger, Deer, Rabbit, Bank Vole, Long-Eared Bat, Slow Worm & Hedgehog.
Observation, All Year Round - Wildlife, Fact Cards, Posters/Displays, Cards/Flashcards, Number Recognition, Measures - Length, Animals, Discussion Prompts, Autumn page, Winter page, Fox, Squirrel, Frog, Badger, Deer, Rabbit, Vole, Bat, Slow Worm, Hedgehog, Amphibians, Mammals
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These fact cards can be used as part of a display or as a stimulus for discussion, writing and drawing before or after time spent in a woodland setting.
8 cards included: Ivy, Bluebell, Bramble, Snowdrop, Daffodil, Daisy, Herb Robert & Wood Anemone.
Observation, All Year Round - Wildlife, Fact Cards, Posters/Displays, Cards/Flashcards, Number Recognition, Measures - Length, Plants/Flowers, Discussion Prompts, Autumn page, Winter page
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These fact cards can be used as part of a display or as a stimulus for discussion, writing and drawing before or after time spent in a woodland setting.
8 cards included: Ivy, Bluebell, Bramble, Snowdrop, Daffodil, Daisy, Herb Robert & Wood Anemone.
Observation, All Year Round - Wildlife, Fact Cards, Posters/Displays, Cards/Flashcards, Number Recognition, Measures - Length, Plants/Flowers, Discussion Prompts, Autumn page, Winter page
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These fact cards can be used as part of a display or as a stimulus for discussion, writing and drawing before or after time spent in a woodland setting.
10 cards included: Earthworm, Garden Snail, Ladybird, Earwig, Ant, Bumblebee, Woodlouse, Centipede, Garden Spider & Common Blue Butterfly.
Observation, All Year Round - Wildlife, Fact Cards, Posters/Displays, Cards/Flashcards, Number Recognition, Measures - Length, Minibeasts, Animals, Discussion Prompts, Autumn page, Winter page, Earthworm, Snail, Ladybird, Earwig, Ant, Bumblebee, Woodlouse, Centipede, Spider, Butterfly, Invertebrates
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These fact cards can be used as part of a display or as a stimulus for discussion, writing and drawing before or after time spent in a woodland setting.
10 cards included: Earthworm, Garden Snail, Ladybird, Earwig, Ant, Bumblebee, Woodlouse, Centipede, Garden Spider & Common Blue Butterfly.
Observation, All Year Round - Wildlife, Fact Cards, Posters/Displays, Cards/Flashcards, Number Recognition, Measures - Length, Minibeasts, Animals, Discussion Prompts, Autumn page, Winter page, Earthworm, Snail, Ladybird, Earwig, Ant, Bumblebee, Woodlouse, Centipede, Spider, Butterfly, Invertebrates
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Pack of 4 drawing templates for children to draw what they can see in the forest. A sheet included for each season.
Activities, Wildlife, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Drawing, Observation, Take Home, Pencil Control, Fine Motor, All Year Round - Wildlife, Mindfulness, Autumn page, Winter page
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Pack of 20 ‘Can you make this sound?’ prompt cards. Ideal for outdoor play problem solving, observation and inspiring exploration!
These prompt cards are to be used to encourage sound making in the outdoor area.
The accompanying pictures are just an example for inspiration. The children can make the sounds however they like!
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Pack of 20 ‘Can you see?’ prompt cards. Ideal for outdoor play mindfulness, observation and inspiring exploration!
These prompt cards are to promote awareness of surroundings when in an outdoor play setting. This activity is intended to help children engage their senses to better notice and appreciate what they see around them.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Pack of 14 ‘Can you hear?’ prompt cards. Ideal for outdoor play, mindfulness, observation and inspiring exploration!
These prompt cards are to promote awareness of surroundings when in an outdoor play setting. This activity is intended to help children engage their senses to better notice and appreciate what they hear around them.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These cards are intended to be used as a stimulus for making shapes with natural materials in the outdoor area.
Extensions could include asking what other shapes the children could make or what other materials could they use.
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These cards are intended to be cut and laminated before being given as a pattern making challenge in the outdoor area.
Encourage the children to look at the card patterns and try to recreate them using real life elements that are found or provided.
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These cards can be laminated for repeated use. Each of the six minibeasts has a dotted line card and a card with a blank space.
Use the laminated cards with whiteboard pens or alternatively use the first card as stimulus e.g. in your outdoor area with chalk or water painting on paving stones or sand in your sand tray.
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Pack of 26 word cards you may like to use to enhance learning through play within your mud kitchen area. Blank cards are also included for you and/or your children to make your own.
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Pack of 5 ingredient challenge cards (plus a blank one) you may like to use to enhance learning through play within your mud kitchen area.
Ideally cards are to be laminated in order for you to write appropriate numbers for individual children/groups of children in each square using a whiteboard pen. The cards can then be repeatedly used all year round.
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These A5 and A4 ‘Recipe Ingredient Cards’ are designed to be printed for single use or laminated for multiple uses to enhance learning through play in your mud kitchen area.
Numbers can be written into each box to denote the quantity of each ingredient required. Numbers can be written by either an adult or child.
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These ‘Ingredients Lists’ are designed to be printed for single use or laminated for multiple uses to enhance learning through play in your mud kitchen area.
Ingredients can be written and/or drawn onto each proforma by either an adult or child.
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Can you place pom poms or other loose parts on the multicoloured circles? Great for fine motor control and developing a pincer grip. Why not also introduce tools such as child tweezers? Have fun!
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Pack of signs you may like to use to enhance organisation and independence through picture communication within your mud kitchen area.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These ‘Mud Menu’ proformas are designed to be printed for single use or laminated for multiple uses to enhance learning through play in your mud kitchen area.
Invented dishes can be written and/or drawn onto each proforma by either an adult or child.
Either…
…an adult may like to draw and name a dish giving inspiration for a child to create their interpretation of it
…or a child may like to experiment with creating their own dish(es) and invent their own name(s) and make marks to record it/them on the sheet once created.
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These ‘My Mud Kitchen Creation!’ proformas are designed to be printed for single use or laminated for multiple uses to enhance learning through play in your mud kitchen area.
Once children have experimented with creating their own mud kitchen dish, why not encourage them to make marks/draw and/or write about their creation using the most appropriate sheet for them within this pack?
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This ‘My Mud Kitchen Recipe Book’ proforma is designed to be printed for single use or laminated for multiple uses to enhance learning through play in your mud kitchen area.
Once children have experimented with creating their own mud kitchen dish, why not encourage them to make marks/draw and/or write about their recipe using the sheets within this book?
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Please visit the following pages to browse our entire collection of ‘Wildlife’ educational materials:
CLICK HERE to visit the ‘BEACH SCHOOL’ PAGE.
Printable ‘Beach’ teaching and learning resources include: scavenger hunts/checklists, mindfulness activity cards, cockle shell age poster, senses booklets and prompts, colouring pages, drawing/writing/mark making sheets, shell multimats, playdough/ loose part mats, art and craft activities, templates, pattern cards, natural loose part art prompts/posters, shapes, pre-writing, rockpool fact cards, symmetry, activity/movement challenges, display lettering, sand play and more!
CLICK HERE to visit ‘LIFE CYCLES’ PAGE.
Printable ‘Life Cycle’ teaching and learning resources include: cyclic puzzles, frog, chicken, caterpillar/butterfly, ant/bean life cycle display packs, posters, cut and stick activities, banners, cards, playdough mats and more!
More Early Years Event Pages for June
Wednesday 24th June 2026: ✨📖 National Writing Day is a day dedicated to encouraging everyone, especially young children, to find their voice through writing. Writing is not just about letters and words; it’s about sharing ideas…
Wednesday 24th June 2026: Discover a world of magic and imagination! ✨🧚♀️🌸 International Fairy Day is a special, unofficial celebration that happens every year on June 24th. It’s a day dedicated to the whimsical…
Monday 22nd - Sunday 28th June 2026: Discover the fascinating world of minibeasts! 🐞🦋🐛 Insect Week is a whole week dedicated to learning about all the tiny, creepy crawly creatures that live all around us. Insects are super important for our planet…
Tuesday 23rd June 2026: Discover the heroes who help our community every day for Public Service Day! 👩🚒👨🏫👮♀️ For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this day…
Tuesday 23rd June 2026: Discover the amazing world of engineering for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED)! 👷♀️⚙️🌉 This day helps us remember that anyone, whether they are a boy or a girl…
Sunday 21st June 2026: Let's look up to the tallest animal on Earth for World Giraffe Day! 🦒🌍🌿 It's about inspiring children with a love for wildlife, teaching them about the importance of protecting endangered…
Sunday 21st June 2026: 🎶🥁🎤 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this day provides a wonderfully creative and crucial theme for exploring music and sound, expressive movement…
Thursday 18th June 2026: Pack a basket, grab a blanket, and head outside for a special meal! 🧺🌳🍎 International Picnic Day is a day to celebrate the simple pleasure of having a meal outdoors, whether it's in the garden, at the park…
Wednesday 17th June 2026: Let's munch on some crunchy carrots and tasty tomatoes for Eat your Veg Day! 🥕🥦😋 This day reminds us that vegetables are like superheroes for our bodies—they are full of good things that…
Tuesday 16th June 2026: Learn how to be super waste-reducing heroes on World Refill Day! 💧♻️ For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this day provides a wonderfully practical…
Monday 15th June 2026: 😊✨ Smile Power Day is a special day celebrated every year on June 15th. It's all about celebrating the wonderful feeling we get when we smile and when we make someone else smile…
Monday 8th June 2026: Let's dive into the big, blue ocean and learn all about it for World Oceans Day 🌊🐬🐠 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms…
Saturday 6th - Sunday 14th June 2026: This week provides a wonderfully positive and crucial theme for exploring the environment, recycling, plants, animals, conservation, sustainability, and understanding the world…
Saturday 6th June 2026: Let's flutter our wings and learn about our beautiful butterfly friends! 🦋🌸 Butterfly Education and Awareness Day (BEAD) is a fantastic time to think about how we can protect butterflies and…
Friday 5th June 2026: Let's explore our amazing planet and learn how to be its best friend! 🌳🌎💧 World Environment Day is all about making a difference, big or small, to keep our Earth healthy and…
Wednesday 3rd June 2026: This day provides a fantastic and active theme for exploring transport, road safety, exercise, health and well-being, the environment, outdoor play, and understanding the world. It's about…
Monday 1st - Sunday 7th June 2026: Learn how to stay safe and sound during Child Safety Week! 🛡️🚦🏠 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this week provides a crucial…
Monday 1st June 2026: Let's give a big cheer for our amazing parents and carers! 💖👨👩👧👦 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this day provides…
Monday 1st June 2026: Roar with excitement and dig into the incredible world of dinosaurs! 🦖🌋🦕 For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this day provides a wonderfully…
30 Days Wild: Monday 1st - Tuesday 30th June 2026: Let's step outside and get wild with nature! 🌳🦋🐞 '30 Days Wild’ is a fantastic nature challenge that happens every June, organised by The Wildlife Trusts across the UK. It's all about doing one…
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Disclaimer:
This page is for educational purposes only and is intended to support early years and primary practitioners with ideas and resources related to '30 Days Wild’. We are not officially affiliated with or endorsed by The Wildlife Trusts, who organise this annual initiative. We do not claim any rights to specific trademarks or official materials associated with this event. For official information, daily challenges, and how to get involved, please visit The Wildlife Trusts website: www.wildlifetrusts.org/30DaysWild.
Saturday 27th June 2026: Time to put on our shades and protect our eyes for National Sunglasses Day! 😎☀️🕶️ This day provides a fun and crucial theme for exploring sun safety, eye health, weather, and personal health…