Woodland painting

There’s nothing more the boys love, than getting wet and muddy whilst exploring with nature Our boys learn and develop through play and experiences so we always encourage trips out by the stream, looking for wildlife in the woods and treasure hunts

All you need for this trip is:

Wellies

A picnic – jam butties are a favourite in this house!

Paints

Canvas

Leaves

Glue

For this trip, we headed to Rowley Lake, Burnley. Free car park, several different entrances and lots of free parking – pram friendley – could walk around in 30 minutes if you didn’t stop, however takes us about 2 hours because we go to the stream and into the woodlands

First stop of this trip, we went in the stream. We used a fishing rod to catch leaves which we were throwing in and watching the currant take it. We also collected some rocks to take home to paint

After our picnic, we walked around the lake and found a beautiful spot on the benches, where we made our duck canvases we painted their hands blue, thumbs green for the head and then added yellow for the beak

We went into the woods to collect leaves to glue on to the top, and also used some to press onto the canvas, to leave a gorgeous leaf print

Lots to see here, often spotting the Cormorants, heron, at times the mandarin ducks and frogs, lots of geese and ducks, squirrels