Welcome to the Creative Natives website

Creative Natives offers a unique outdoor experience for parents and children, school groups and home educators. We are currently running groups at Mallydams Wood near Hastings and High Woods near Tunbridge Wells.

Parent and Toddler Groups
Creative Natives aims to inspire pre-school children and their carers to use their senses to explore the world around them. Listen to the woodpeckers in spring, smell the green of summer, taste the fruits of the hedgerows in autumn and splash through the muddy puddles in winter. Through outdoor fun and creative seasonal activities using natural resources, the children learn to nurture wildlife, engage in traditional crafts and appreciate the great outdoors as a friendly living playground.


There are no groups being run at the moment, but please see the posts below that show the sort of things we used to get up to.

If you are interested in encouraging children outdoors and nurturing an interest in nature, the environment, crafts and creativity call Sam on 01797 223121 or email info@creative-natives.co.uk for more information.

Creative Partnerships
Creative Natives also works with Creative Partnerships and The Woodland Education Initiative to offer schools and other organsations working with children the opportunity to work with Creative Natives to inspire and nurture children's interest in nature, traditional crafts and outdoor fun.

For more information please contact Sam on 01797 223121 or email info@creative-natives.co.uk

Thursday, 3 January 2008

Christmas term Winchlsea 2008


October, November and December has been quite special at the Creative Natives site. With only one or two seriously wet days (which bothered us grown ups more than the children), the transition from Autumn to winter was mild and beautiful.












The first week back after half term bought Halloween festivities. As we had been growing some pumpkins the children got stuck into carving spooky faces and stars with safety knives. With help from some of the local vegetable growers we had enough pumpkins for all. Thank you dear neighbours!















Novembers Guy making was a challenge with the group ending with a big bonfire. The firework splatter pictures were good fun. Very messy but not as loud and scary as real fireworks.
























Wildlife conservation has also been important this half term. The RSPCA's hedgehogs were provided with our homemade hibernating boxes. The local birds were made birdfeeders and we played games listening to bird songs. Well done all those who recognised their bird's song.


Everyone enjoyed the paper making in December. We collected shredded paper, grass, straw, nettles and rose petals to create our own beautiful paper. The children loved stirring the pulp and squeezing out the paper with rolling pins.



Gopshall pottery have the most beautiful environment to work in and kindly provided the children with clay to create their own home made Christmas presents.



To inspire the children into making some creepy crawly thumb pots we first searched under rocks, wood and in the soil to find the insects, which we put back after studying them. Lovely natural Christmas cards were also made, with a touch of glitter! We also made Christmas Wreaths from willow coppiced on the site.



Our final week was dedicated to planting and decorating our Christmas tree. Thanks to Finlay and Jean for all their digging efforts. The tree looked wonderful with glittering cones and pomanders. A sun filled walk to the beach for some Christmas treats ended the year beautifully.

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