Nature Nuts

Busy week this week!  Visited Coolings Green & Pleasant on Tuesday morning to take Erin to a Nature Nuts 'Beautiful Butterfly' session.

It was brilliant!  I love Coolings anyway, the nature trail is really good and well maintained with a lot of happy healthy animals (wallabies, goats, sheep, pigs and the biggest chicken ever!) and interesting things to see (bug hotels, wigwams, the conifer tunnel and a den).

Kirsty's nature nuts session was run in their outdoor classroom and was really well structured.  She has a really good rapport with the children, engaging all ages and involving them all in a structured way.  They played games, got up close with a butterfly, planted seeds, made a butterfly pot marker, read a story and then took on the nature trail challenge before heading to the cafe for lunch, face painting and drawing.

I can't quite believe we managed to fit all of that in in just 2 hours!

At £10 per child, it was amazing value.  Erin was totally engrossed and really enjoyed herself, getting properly involved in every activity.  I'm not sure if it was Kirsty's manner or the size of the group, but I haven't seen her ever get so much out of a play/learn session before.

Highly recommend Nature Nuts to other families - think Kirsty is planning some more sessions at Coolings and she advertises children's parties on her website.  Check it out.