Whatever your reason to celebrate you can personalise your event. You can choose from
all the activities we offer, from archery to orienteering, but we will always endeavour to
develop ideas that you may wish to include. Here are some ideas that may inspire you,
but if you have a favourite woodland story we can plan the time around the characters
and events in your story.
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Robin Hood Party Plan:
Children can dress up using the theme
Storytelling
Bow and arrow making
Target Archery
Acting out the story in the woodland
Treasure hunt – orienteering
Team games – wide games, ‘capture the castle’
A feast in ‘Sherwood’
Gruffalo Party Plan:
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Storytelling
Make ears to match one of the animals from the story
Make a Gruffalo mask
Hunt the animal
Orienteering – find the Gruffalo
Free play
Gruffalo tea
Three Little Pigs:
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Story telling
Make puppets and masks
Orienteering, find some of the things we need to build with
Construction – make the homes for the pigs
Act out the story
Free play
Tea with the ‘Three Little Pigs’
Billy Goats Gruff:
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Storytelling
Make puppets & masks
Build a theatre
Act out the story
Bridge building – team competition, who’s will be strong enough?
Use the space in the wood to retell the story, can you cross the bridge over the
ditch?
 Free play
 Tea with the Troll
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Teddy’s Bears Picnic:
Bring along your favourite teddy and tell your friends some basic information about
them, name and age etc
Storytelling
Make clay bears and/or masks
Build a home for your teddy
Bears like bugs – we’ll go on a bug hunt
Free play
Teddy Bear’s Picnic
Percy the Park Keeper:
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Story telling
Puppet & mask making
Plant your bulb at the potting table
Make a sledge for the mice
Discover some animal habitat, make your own animal house
Identify the trees in ‘Percy’s Park
Orienteering
Free play
A picnic in the park
Goldilocks and the Three Bears:
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Storytelling
Make face masks
Build a house for the bears
Make porridge and a favourite hot drink on the fire
Woodcraft – make table, chairs and beds for the Bears’ house
Free play
Tea with the Bears