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🍂🌳🍁 Lovely bit of time lapse footage showing our campfire being lit this morning! 🍁🍂🌳

Sarah

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So lovely to receive this review today after this morning's session!

Wonderful experience for everyone of all ages.

🌳🌳 We are VERY excited to announce that we are now TAKING BOOKINGS for our ...

🌳🌳HALF TERM ROBIN HOOD SPECIAL EVENT 🌳🌳

Join us on FRIDAY 22nd FEBRUARY from 10.00 - 12.00 for lots of outdoor fun! Make your own Robin Hood hat or Medieval headband, make your own bow and arrow out of natural material, have a go at archery using your bow and arrow, take part in our Robin Hood scavenger hunt, can you follow the clues and solve the puzzle? All this and our usual Muddy Feet fun: swinging in the hammocks, climbing on the slackline, chasing big bubbles through the woodland, cooking in the mud kitchen and sharing food around our campfire! 🌳🌳

🌳Price includes 2 hour session, food, snacks and campfire treats. Older school aged siblings welcome, sibling discount available, reduced rate for pre-walkers and pre-walking siblings are free.

🌳OUR LAST THREE HOLIDAY EVENTS SOLD OUT🌳
Remember to book your place on our website-www.muddyfeetoutdoors.co.uk ... See more

🕊🐦🦅 Having a go at the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch here at Muddy Feet HQ! Not sure we'll make the full hour! Only a few tears so far because "I can't see any birds! I'm being REALLY quiet and NO birds are coming!!" We'd love to see/hear how any of you are getting on! 🕊🐦🦅 ... See more

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🍂🌳🍁 Well we DEFINITELY lived up to our name today! Muddy Feet all round! 🍁🍂🌳 Another lovely muddy day in the woods today, making birdfeeders and binoculars and looking for birds! 🦆🦅🕊🐦 Our Muddy Feeters have been fantastic at spotting birds in our woodland, collecting woolly worms and spotting bugs in the mud!. We enjoyed a visit from our friendly robin again and toasted marshmallows on the campfire! A perfect end to the week! 🍂🌳🍁
🌳 🍂We have 2 weeks left of this half term block if you'd like to come along and see what we get up to TUES/WED/FRI mornings from 10.30-12🌳🍂 ... See more

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🌳❄🍂 Another fantastic session at Muddy Feet today, it was SUCH a beautiful morning to be outside in the woods exploring birds ahead of the RSPB Big Birdwatch. It is SO lovely to see our Muddy Feeters growing in confidence and independence in the woodland, sharing their knowledge with others and developing skills such as fire safety, fire lighting and cooking on a campfire. It's also lovely to meet new families coming to try our sessions out for the first time! I've just been sent these lovely photos to share from a family who had their first Muddy Feet experience today! It's always lovely to see pictures of our sessions (I always forget to take any!) 🍂🌳❄
Huge thanks to everyone who has joined us for some outdoor fun in the woods this week! Looking forward to our session on FRIDAY in TOLLERTON. There are still few spaces if you'd like to join us in our beautiful woodland! ❄🌳🍁🍂 ... See more

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❄ Well Done Tuesday Muddy Feeters! It was lovely to see some familiar faces and meet some new Muddy Feeters! We had lots of bird-related action going on at our session this morning, to link in with the RSPB Big Birdwatch happening this week 🐦🕊🦅🦆🐦🦅🕊🐦🦅🕊
We made our own binoculars to help with our birdwatching, went bird-spotting through the woods, made our own birdfeeders to take home, played Woolly Worms and enjoyed a visit from our resident robin!
It was definitely a day for sharing hot chocolate and marshmallows around the campfire! ❄ ... See more

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With the colder weather arriving, I keep seeing lots of posts about “Staying inside in the warm” Here at Muddy Feet we are BIG advocates of outdoor play all year round, even in the colder weather...

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HERE are just a few reasons why outdoor play in winter is SO important....
❄ Fresh Air Strengthens the Immune System: Breathing in fresh air strengthens the immune system and allows children to escape the recycled indoor air that may be filled with germs and bacteria.

🌳Creative Problem-Solving:
Playing outdoors in winter invites children to think differently about their outdoor space and to use their imaginations for new outdoor learning challenges that come with the colder months. Winter play gives children the opportunity to take risks and to experience important life lessons such as how to move around to keep warm.

❄ Reconnecting with Nature:
I'm sure we've all heard the reports about how little time children of today spend outside. Research says that children are spending more than 5 1/2 hours a day in front of a screen. Therefore, it is critical get children outdoors in nature year round. Winter weather can offer challenges with ice, snow, and rain. On the other hand, experiencing the woodland in all its winter glory can open incredible opportunities and experiences.

🌳The "Feel-Good Factor"
Getting outdoors during the winter months is especially invigorating. As well as the physical benefits of moving around and exercising outdoors, I strongly believe in the emotional and mental benefits, spending time outdoors just makes you feel better!

❄Vitamin D:
Getting outdoors gives us the needed Vitamin D that we need; especially during the winter months. Vitamin D is key to fighting off many diseases. Therefore, if you can get your kids outdoors for at least 15 minutes a day this Winter, you will be making a difference in their overall health!

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We still have a few places in some of our sessions this week, why not come along to enjoy some outdoor fun and exploration with us!

Places can be booked on our website-www.muddyfeetoutdoors.co.uk

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🍁🍂🌳 Another lovely week at Muddy Feet exploring animal homes. We've had lots of fun hunting for and building our own animal homes, making animal masks and dens and lots more! 🌳🍁🍂
❄The temperature has definately dropped this week and we had our first wet session at Edwalton, but everyone has done a fantastic job of wrapping up and embracing the colder weather (not always the easiest with little ones!)
🌧🌦🌫🌬☉🌧🌦🌫🌬☉🌧🌦🌫🌬☉🌧🌦🌫People are often surprised when I tell them that we run our Forest School sessions outdoors in all weather, all year round, but there is SO much to be gained from spending time outdoors in all weather and through experiencing the woodland in all seasons. On the way home, my little one and I discussed how she had cold feet today and she said "My toes warmed up when I ran through the woods looking for the fox. I'm going to run and put more socks on next week too" Resilience, independence, responsibility and problem solving right there!
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It was lovely to hear some of our parents this week saying that coming to our sessions has given them the impetus to spend more time outdoors in all weather and how it is easier to spend time outdoors in winter when you are part of a group, having people to share the experience with and suggestions of activities to have a go at!
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We have 3 weeks left of this half term block, places can be booked on our website-www.muddyfeetoutdoors.co.uk if you'd like to come along and see what we get up to!
🍁WATCH THIS SPACE - we will soon be advertising our FEBRUARY HALF TERM SESSION, our NEXT HALF TERM BLOCK OF SESSIONS and for the first time ever our special session for MOTHER'S DAY (well a session for Mothers, Stepmothers , Grandmothers, Auntie's - any of the special ladies in your life!)
🍁🍂🌳 A HUGE thank you to everyone who has come along to our sessions this week. If you have any pictures (of your little ones) or comments on this week's sessions, we'd love to share them!
🍁🍂🌳 Have a great weekend Muddy Feeters! 🍁🍂 ... See more

❄ MUDDY FEET'S TOP TIPS FOR STAYING TOASTY❄

🍃🍂🍁 So Muddy Feeters it looks as though the temperature has dropped a bit (it's been very mild for this time of year!) and temperatures are set to stay low for the next couple of weeks (If the forecasts are to be believed!!)

Here are our MUDDY FEET TOP TIPS for STAYING TOASTY - a few tips on how to help keep little ones (and big ones! ) warm.

🍃1.) Have a look at our Dressing for Forest School picture below - LAYERING is key! - you can always remove a layer if you're too warm!
🍁2.) Remember to dress YOURSELF AS WELL as YOUR LITTLE ONES for the weather too! As parents/grandparents we are often so concerned with dressing the little ones that we forget ourselves!Although I work outside, I always feel the cold, so regularly have 6 layers on at this time of year!
🍃3.) KEEPING MOVING is REALLY important- during the colder sessions we will have more physical activities to keep little ones moving- encourage your little ones to move around the woods this week, take part in our animal hunts, chasing after bubbles or running under the parachute will all help to keep little ones warm.
🍁4.) Have plenty of WARM DRINKS and SNACKS to keep energy levels up - we'll have our flasks of hot drinks on tap and our biscuit tin and fruit snacks all topped up!
🍃5.) We will light our campfires earlier during the colder sessions and put up our tarps to create a shelter if needed. At our Tollerton site, the indoor space will be left open if anyone wants to go inside to warm up at any point.
🍁 6.)We will also bring along some blankets, hand warmers and our little pop up tent as the weather gets colder to help keep us all toasty warm!
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