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Our group activities at your fingertips — search by age group, how big your group is, the kind of activity you want to do or the topic you want to explore. If you want activities to do at home, check out Dream Big at Home, our home activities site.

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Children playing a clapping game

Bird Parachute

  • Time: 5-10 mins
  • Topic: Just for Fun
  • Location: Outside
Play a funny game with a parachute and bird names!
Children playing a clapping game

Action Name Game

  • Time: 5-10 mins
  • Topic: Just for Fun, Wellbeing
  • Location: Inside, Online, Outside
An easy and fun game to learn names
Children playing a clapping game

Fruit Salad

  • Time: 5-10 mins
  • Topic: Just for Fun
  • Location: Inside, Outside
A lively parachute game
Children playing a clapping game

Whispers

  • Time: 5-10 mins
  • Topic: Cooperation, Just for Fun
  • Location: Inside, Outside
Send a message around a circle — how much will it change?
group of teenagers having a discussion

Exploring Woodcraft Folk

  • Time: 40-60 mins
  • Topic: Cooperation, Equality & Inclusion, Identity & Culture
  • Location: Inside, Outside
Children playing a clapping game

Notable Names

  • Time: 5-10 mins
  • Topic: Equality & Inclusion, Just for Fun
  • Location: Inside, Online, Outside
A name game for introducing yourselves
Children playing a clapping game

Picket Line

  • Time: 10-20 mins
  • Topic: Justice
  • Location: Inside, Outside
A game for discussing the various things that are good, or not so good to have on the picket line
Art materials to make and create with

Compost Cake

  • Time: 1h +
  • Topic: Environment
  • Location: Outside
Discover how to make nutrient-rich compost to grow your own produce - a long-term project for any group willing to get their hands dirty!
Art materials to make and create with

Natural Fibre Fashion

  • Time: 1h +
  • Topic: Environment
  • Location: Inside, Outside
Take a look at your clothes to find out where they’re made and what they’re made of - and find another use for stinging nettles
Art materials to make and create with

Raft Building

  • Time: 1h +
  • Topic: Refugees
  • Location: Inside, Outside
Flooding and seal level rises could cause more climate refugees - can you co-operate effectively to build a raft to reach safety?
A table covered in shopping bags full of food

Hedgerow Soup

  • Time: 20-40 mins
  • Topic: Environment
  • Location: Outside
What plants could we forage in our local area, if food supplies were scarce? If you can find stinging nettles near you, you’ve got a source of food!
group of teenagers having a discussion

Climate Chaos

  • Time: 20-40 mins
  • Topic: Environment
  • Location: Inside, Outside
An energetic, visual way for your group to explore the science behind the greenhouse effect and the processes that are driving climate change
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Woodcraft Folk is a registered charity in England & Wales (1148195) and in Scotland (SC039791), and a company registered in England & Wales, Company No. 8133727 • ©2022 

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