National Trust: 50 Things To Do Before You're 11 3/4: An Outdoors Adventure Handbook

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Always – no such thing as bad weather just the wrong clothes. Here we all are on our walk from Ilam Park to Dovedale Stepping Stones | National Trust Among the highlights is the natural history gallery at Cliffe Castle, which has a wide range of small mammals and birds. The gallery helps the children to begin to understand how many different animals and birds there are and shows them the skeletons that help support them. It will certainly get them asking questions which is the best way for children to learn. Best of all, there has been a lot of laughing. He has made me laugh, made other people laugh, laughed himself, and laughed at himself. “It has made turning 50 a good thing,” he says. “It could have easily gone the other way.”

Helpfully and easily found regularly my neighbours pond! No33 Catching a Falling Leaf –50 things to do before you are 11 and 3/4 I don’t think my kids can say they can ride a horse but they have definitely tried! No49 Find a geocache – 50 things to do before you are 11 and 3/4 We have loads of these on the road and I feel like I should have a photo but I don’t! No11 Go on a really long bike ride -50 things to do before you are 11 and 3/4Now I’m not sure I even knew this was a thing! One for this Summer! No 18 Create some Wild Art–50 things to do before you are 11 and 3/4 We have done this with a variety of things and failed miserably at all but herbs (which the girls don’t want to eat!) No 42 Go Swimming in the Sea – 50 things to do before you are 11 and 3/4 We love heading down to West Kirby beach nearby where we live and flying a kite. One of our favourites things to do. No8 Catch a Fish with a Net–50 things to do before you are 11 and 3/4

We’ve tried a lot of this and are often very unsuccessful but it’s all about trying isn’t it! We got these fab fishing rods on our St Mawes Holiday in Cornwall. No9 Eat an Apple Straight from a Tree – 50 things to do before you are 11 and 3/4 This is definitely still one to do! No10 Play Conkers –50 things to do before you are 11 and 3/4 Meet the Bugs at Farmer Teds in Ormskirk with also a chance to stroke a lizard, a snake and hold a frog!!!

On holiday, take a photo of 10 strangers (with their permission). Try to get a little story or snippet to go with each. I’m going to say that we haven’t done this enough and that it should still be on the list! No36 Make a home for a wild animal– 50 things to do before you are 11 and 3/4

We don’t seem to have managed this ourselves so still on the list, but we do have some great tips from another writer aboutFossil Hunting on Charmouth Beach. There are some challenges here for this Summer! No15 Play in the Snow– 50 things to do before you are 11 and 3/4We swam in the sea on our summer holiday in Greece in 2014, enjoying the warm water, and have continued to do this every year since. One of our favourite things in the World. Another of my favourite photos from a photoshoot behind our house but definitely catching a falling leaf! The Fifty Things link is here and below are the ones we have managed so far. So why not get started yourself – loads of them can be done for free! No1 Climb a Tree –50 things to do before you are 11 and 3/4 I feel like there needs to be a trip designed around this task this year. No44 Go Bird Watching– 50 things to do before you are 11 and 3/4