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Animal Wildlife Presenter Parties, School Talks, Gower School Field Trips, Gower Wilderness School Holiday Days, Gower Seasonal Family Wildlife Days and Events and Gower Themed birthday Parties for kids on the beach and in the woods, Gower, South Wales
Seasonal picnics and camp fire feasts available 52 weeks a year.
Storytelling sessions are available 52 weeks a year
Animal Wildlife Presenter Parties
Our parties are fun and educational. Our green team will come to you at any location/venue in the UK. Handle Exotic Pets: Ideal for parties and phobia sessions. 250.00 per session. (Image of snakes/spiders)
School Talks
We offer unique talks on various environments around the world, e.g., The Amazon rainforest and deserts.
Gower School Field Trips and Gower Family Nature Days - click here for info
Exploring the beach and woods Join our green teams and explore the Gower Wilderness
£150.00 per day. Maximum Group size = 30
Our School Trips and Family Gower Nature days involve the following:
Gower Animal Tracking, Gower Nature Treasure Hunts , Gower Forest School Tasks, Gower Survival and Bushcrafting Tasks, Gower Wilderness Team Building Games and Gower Story telling sessions for all ages.
Gower Wilderness School Holiday Days
Similar timetable to the above Other Gower Seasonal Family Wildlife Days/Events
Spring, summer, autumn and winter Cost = £40.00 per adult, £20.00 per child
Spring
The cottage herb garden day, small farm animals day, spring herb crafting and walks Summer: Exploring the sea shore day, summer herb crafting and walks, Walking the coastal path (24 miles), searching for moths and butterflys, camping, beach picnic, storytellling - 2 days.
The Cottage Herb Garden
Plan and maintain a herb garden, integration with flowers and vegetables, techniques for successful herb growing, and intro to the use of herbs in cookery, fragrance and home medicine.
Small Farm Animals
Sheep and Pigs Explore the feasibility of managing a smallholding with sheep and pigs, including feeding, housing, breeding and regulations. Learn about organic farming. Opportunities to milk a cow!
Herb walk in the height of Spring and Natural Beauty Days.
Creams and Ointments - Prepare your own cream or ointment using locally sourced ingredients.
Exploring the Seashore Days
This course looks at the ecology of all types of seashore, including different rocky shores, salt marsh, estuary and mud flats, and includes a walk around the rock pools and cliff tops to view seabirds when the tide is in - all at a leisurely pace.
Summer
Herb walks in the height of the summer and natural beauty days. Moths and Late Summer Butterflies Days
Covers aspects of butterfly and moth identification, trapping and information on the national notable species and life histories, and suggest methods to encourage these fascinating insects and their close relatives to our gardens. Explore butterfly life cycles, adult and larval behaviour, mating strategies, distribution and major habit management requirements. There will be daytime visits to a variety of habitats to observe late summer butterflies.
Autumn
Beekeeping for Beginners Days.
Bumblebee ecology and conservation is explained. An introduction to keeping bees. Investigate the components of a beehive, see how to make up beeswax frames, and find out what equipment you will need. Enjoy the honey harvest on a Gower farm. Find out when and how to take off honey stores in autumn, reducing the structure of the hive and feeding to prepare the bee colony for the coming winter.
Herb walks in the height of Autumn and natural beauty days
Enjoy an autumn herb walk to discover hips, haws and berries and their uses and folklore.
Identifying Trees, Conservation and Woodland Management
September is an ideal time of the year to study trees, as not only are still in leaf but they also have their fruits to aid identification. Find out how a wood is managed affects the wildlife within it; what favors one species may eliminate another. We visit a variety of woodland sites to examine their different management regimes, and the effect on woodland flora and fauna. Tree identification skills. Tree folk law. Explore the woodland.
Fungi Foray
October days looks at aspects of fungi and ends with a fry up of the day’s best finds. Intro to studies surrounding fungi, folklore, prisoners, and the vital role of fungi in the woodland ecology. Hunt for medicinal mushrooms, and learn their connection with plants and tress.
Winter
Driftwood Sculpture workshop
Wander along the wild Gower beaches and collect driftwood, shells and seaweed brought in by the winter storms - make sculptures out of them in a beautiful warm barn in Bishops Wood.
Drumming
A spiritual experience, being with the rhythm of nature. Celebrate the sacred drummer in all of us.
Environmental art for Families
Creating artwork with natural and found material celebrating nature as the nights draw in. This workshop provides a practical introduction to the use of art as a way of reaching out and responding to the natural world. Experiment with stories and poems, make lanterns, populate the woods with puppets, make masks, and end the workshop with a portfolio of activities. Make green Christmas decorations, lanterns in beautiful old barn. Mulled wine for adults enjoy a mug of mulled wine!
Kids Themed Parties
We organise fantastic fun birthday parties for children aged 3-8 and 9-16. We discuss what theme and budget you would like and then we set about making a very special and memorable occasion for all the children.
 Here are examples of the sort of party activities we arrange:
- Wilderness Wood Walk
- Bush Craft Treasure Hunt
- Beach Combing
- Art and Sand Sculpturing
- Beach Games or Surfing
- Organic Picnic or Camp Fire Feast
- Story Telling in Yurt or Tee-pee
- Supervised art/craft sessions
- Candle making, jewellery making
Normally there should be a minimum of 6 children. £20.00 per child. The kids love this sort of thing and its very educational too. (We do all these parties for big kids too!)
Fancy Dress themed parties include: Teddy Bear picnics, Sea World - fish, mermaids, octopus etc., Fairies and Goblins, Pirates, Princesses and Knights, Wild West, Outer Space and Star Wars, Disney World and Gypsy themes.
Registered baby-sitters can look after your children while you take part in activities or go to some of the wonderful local pubs and restaurants nearby.
Our Organic Birthday Cakes cost £25.00
The Magic of Storytelling with The Crowman
 Creative activities for children and adults:
- Schools
- Museums
- Libraries
- Community Groups
- Inset days and training
The Crowman combines the telling of wonder tales, myths and fables with activities to stimulate creative play and imagination.
In a range of workshop sessions for all ages and abilities, participants use listening skills and are engaged in making various types of masks, puppets or simple musical instruments. This can then lead to follow up work, such as creative writing and the use of the items made in displays, presentations or celebration.
The sessions are designed to meet the requirements of schools, libraries, museums, galleries, training centers and community groups. All materials are provided.
Other activities can include making giant puppets, processional dragons, kites, scrap and ephemeral sculpture and science and design technology projects.
Please call 07970 059869 or fill in our Contact Form
Kids Green Events
Thanks to Jen Hughes and Mark McDonald who spent their honeymoon, running our first “pilot” Gower Wilderness Course on their private woodland retreat in Bishopston.
16 children, aged 8-16 had a fantastic time playing games, building shelters, learning about sustainable living, making dream catchers, cooking in the outdoors and many, many other things. They all loved the teepees, especially when it rained and they took to telling outrageous jokes and stories under canvas.
Luke Waller, aged 9 said it was the best thing he had ever done and everyone seemed to think it was a great way to spend the last week of the summer holidays.
Everyone survived without their game boys, I-pods and computers although the girls from Bristol did rush home to watch Hollyoaks on the last day ……
Special thanks to Roy Riley, a wonderful photographer who spent a day with us on his way to London for an important photo shoot. The kids loved him and his images can be seen on our gallery page.
Another Gower Wilderness Course is being planned for the Autumn half-term week, starting on Monday 22 October 06 for children aged 8-14. The cost will be £30 per child and the course will run from 10.00 am – 4.00 pm. Places can be booked on a daily basis. And accommodation can be booked at The Winston Hotel for families for as little as £35 per person per night. Please ring us for more details on 07970 059869.
Full Moon Winterland Storytelling Event - Xmas Party 07
Over 70 children and their parents, came to visit Santa in the stable with his donkeys, made green christmas decorations, shadow puppets and listened to stories in a beautiful barn in Bishopston. The mulled wine was especially good!
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