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

Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Happy New Year! Winchelsea 2008


The New Year at Creative Natives started with some den building, utilising locally sourced birch, willow and hazel. Thanks to Alex for the coconut matting which added a nice finishing touch.

The changeable weather provided us with lots to do including rain batik plates, paper bag kites, ice mobiles and, of course, the obstacle course to warm up. We also dug some more vegetable beds which supplied us with mud for some beautiful mud pies and some worms for the wormery.
A big thank you to Julia Williams who supplied Creative Natives with some red and green willow and showed us how to build a living willow tunnel. With some of the left over willow we created some nesting wreathes to give the birds a helping hand. The blue tits and starlings have made use of them, and some of our bird boxes.


The children AND the grown ups enjoyed making bows and arrows! Thanks to Alex, again, for the Hazel and to our neighbour, Jill, for the goose feathers which made fantastic indian head dresses.




Easter time involved make egg cups at The Gopshall Pottery for the Tuesday and Wednesday groups. Unfortunately the Monday group was called off due to the extreme weather, which had bought down trees and power lines. The group will benefit from a free session next term.


On Easter Monday we were joined by some siblings for an easter egg hunt. We also made some birds nests and looked at a collection of local eggs from geese, chickens, quails, bantams and ducks.


We have begun to sow some seeds in our little poly tunnel, and our potatoes have been chitted and planted in the tyres. Lots more planting to follow next half term.



A walk to see the local spring lambs rounded off this half term beautifully.

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