Learning resources for forest visits

Connect your pupils to nature with three simple 30 minute activities that inspires creative writing and encourages learning outdoors. Perfect for KS2 and KS3 English lessons.

Use trees as a creative way to reflect on life’s positives. This adaptable wellbeing resource helps pupils explore their strengths, hopes, and achievements. Perfect for KS2 and KS3...

Explore three exciting forestry careers with this fun, hands-on activity pack. Ideal for KS1and KS2 career education and STEM.

Get pupils active with this fun interactive game. Test their knowledge of British deer with this free printable download.

Bring nature into the classroom with this free interactive activity. Pupils learn fascinating facts about bluebells through a lively true or false game.

Download this free activity sheet and let trees spark creative writing. Packed with our favourite activities, designed to boost reading, writing and oral literacy skills.

Take part in this free short activity to practise mindfulness with your class.

Early years, KS1. Bring this well known book to life in the classroom or in the deep dark wood with some of our favourite craft activities.

Suitable for KS1 onwards, these downloadable cards will teach your students lots of fun facts about trees.

A fun interactive game for all ages. Can you name a bird that lives in the forest or something made from wood?

Download this free printable spotter sheet and discover how we manage the nation's forests. A fun educational resource for outdoor learning and KS1 - KS2 activities.

Enjoy an outdoor learning activity with this free spotter sheet. Pupils can explore and identify the many different recreational activities taking place in the forest.

Print this colourful spotter sheet and record how many insects, birds and mammals you can spot in the forest. A fun introductory outdoor activity for all ages.

Fun for all ages. Free downloadable tree spotter activity sheet. How many trees can you identify?

Download this free activity sheet full of fun quizzes and facts that can be used to introduce your class to the animals that visit the forest under the cover of darkness.

Collect natural materials and build some exciting and innovative structures with your KS2 pupils. Perfect for STEM and outdoor learning.

Inspire creativity outdoors. Take your class to the forest, collect natural materials and create stunning forest art. A free KS1 and KS2 art lesson plan for outdoor learning.

Download a free KS2 lesson plan with printable worksheets comparing temperate forests and tropical rainforests. Great for geography and science curriculum.

Take maths outdoors. This free KS1 and KS2 lesson plan uses forests to explore numbers, shapes and symmetry and introduces estimations and measuring through hands-on activities.

Inspire creative writing with this free KS2 English lesson plan. Take learning outdoors and explore the forest to compose poetry and short stories connected to nature.

This free outdoor learning resource for Key Stage 1 English uses forests to inspire creative writing, imaginative language, role play and performance.

Explore maps and geography skills with this free KS1 lesson plan. Full of outdoor learning ideas for studying physical and human processes and carrying out fieldwork activities.

Forests are the perfect outdoor classroom. Use this free resource to teach KS1 and KS2 pupils about trees and how important they are for people and wildlife.

Head outdoors with this activity filled lesson plan to explore minibeasts and their habitats.