For those of you who regularly read my blog you will know that we are members and regular visitors of our local wetlands centre WWT Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. We have visited in the depths of Winter and the heat of the Summer, and we have had hours of fun jumping in puddles, and exploring the centre too already this year.
We were recently contacted by Slimbridge and asked whether the Little Ones would like to become VIP Wildlife Explorers for a day to road test their summer activities for them. We had already spotted the adverts for 'Dusty's Wildlife Explorers' when we were last there and having planned to go at the start of the holidays anyway, we were certainly willing to be the first to try them out.
After being warmly greeted on arrival, the Little Ones were issued with notepads and pencils and special VIP explorer lanyards, before we set off and met the other bloggers and their families as we headed through the centre to our first Nature Detectives experience.
After meeting Dave, our guide, we began to explore the rookery; with handfuls of feathers, the Little Ones looked on as Dave over turned logs to see what he could find. One newt, three toads and lots of woodlice later the children were captivated and chatty, ready to explore further.
After meeting Dave, our guide, we began to explore the rookery; with handfuls of feathers, the Little Ones looked on as Dave over turned logs to see what he could find. One newt, three toads and lots of woodlice later the children were captivated and chatty, ready to explore further.
We set off to explore guided by Dave, we found empty oyster shells left over from an Otter's dinner and a grass snake skin under a sheet of metal, Dave told us the snakes like to lay eggs in the compost heaps as they are warm inside.
Dave told us about some of the plants we came across too. Both girls were right up the front of the action the whole time running off after Dave to see what he would find for them next, the whole nature detective talk lasted an hour and while Little 3 fell asleep on Daddy's shoulder,the girls never once lost interest or asked if we could move on.
All the events are on daily over the holidays and if you go you might just see us there having a go at the others and trying to earn our badges too.
N.B We were invited for a complimentary day out at Slimbridge to road test these summer activities for the purpose of this blog post. However we love Slimbridge so much we are actually members anyway and think it truly is a great day out for families.
Oh this looks like a super fun place! I know my boys would love the boat and the wooden teepees. Such a shame it's not closer but I know where to go if we're ever in the area x
ReplyDeleteWe went back today actually and did mini raft building and pond dipping, we still have a few more of their summer activities to do too as well.
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