Outdoor things

Chestnuts! A rite of passage for children in Autumn! Go exploring and see how many you can find. Here are a few places where you can go to collect the shiny chestnut:

• Sandall Beat Wood
• Potteric Carr Nature Reserve
• Cusworth Park
• Kings Wood Forest

There are many places in Doncaster that are interesting… Even your own living room! Find a place that you find interesting to go exploring and take a photo whilst you are there. Examples of interesting places in Doncaster could include:

• A room in your house
• Your back garden
• Sprotbrough Falls
• Sandall Park
• The Don Gorge
• Sandall Beat Wood
• The Crags in Conisbrough

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Camping in your back garden might seem boring, right? Not if you treat it like a real camping trip! Help an adult cook some burgers or sausages on a BBQ, try making some glow stick lanterns, roast marshmallows with an adult, and anything else you can think of!

Your back garden, your local wooded area, venture further to places like Sandall Park , Sandall Beat Wood, Cusworth Hall and more! The aim of the game? Find things! Leaves, conkers, interesting trees, walking trails…Go exploring anywhere and find whatever you can.

Leaves come in all different shapes and sizes. Go exploring the outdoors and see what leaves you can find.

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What could be in your back garden? Leaves, sticks, grass, mud… Gather whatever you can find and make a sculpture. It can be anything you like.

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Your back garden is the place to go. Have fun playing outside making a mud pie. Here is a recipe that has all of the information you need.

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Did you know that birds eat 400-500 million tons of insects per year? This is just one of the interesting facts you can learn about birds, there are so many more!

Visit the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and complete some of their surveys to learn about birds.

Den building is great to get those creative thoughts flowing. Build those muscles by picking up and moving things around. Build those teamwork skills by working together.

Indoors, outdoors, upstairs, downstairs, anywhere! Be as creative as you like when building your den.

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Recycling is a good way to raise awareness of your impact on the world. Learn about recycling using Cbeebies. Learn how to recycle properly or use recyclable materials to create something new!

Getting outside is great. It has been proven to improve things such as physical health, mental wellbeing, along with supporting cognitive and emotional development.

Venture to some of Doncaster’s many great outdoor destinations, including places such as:

• Sandall Beat Wood
• Yorkshire Wildlife Park
• Denby Ings Nature Reserve
• Sandall Park
• Potteric Carr Nature Reserve

Take a photo whilst you’re there and post it to Instagram with the hashtag #100ThingsDN