Join us at our Bushy Park centre in London for our fun school holiday activities for children and families.

Activities are based outdoors, and explore the natural world. The sessions are a mix of games and activities that will inspire you to find out more and discover how you can help wildlife on your doorstep. To take part you do not need any experience or any expensive kit, just an enthusiasm for being outside and discovering nature.

Eco Tots: For families with children age 18 months – 5 years. Children under 12 months are welcome if accompanying a paying sibling. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Eco Explorers: For children aged 5 years – 8 years.

Eco Adventurers: For children aged 8 years – 11 years.

Discovery Days: Events for families with children of any age. Children must be accompanied by an adult. These are free to attend for adults and children but please book your place if you intend on coming along.

Eco Champions: Events for families with children over the age of 7. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

John Muir Award: For young people age 10+. This is a 4 day course where children are unaccompanied at our non-residential day centres.

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Before You Attend

  • Please bring appropriate clothing and footwear for being outside.
  • Activities are subject to change, depending on the weather.

Opportunities to attend this course

  • Fri 02, June 2023 10:00 - 12:00

    Eco Tots (18 months - 5 Years)  - Come and explore our beautiful environment. Aimed at 18 months - 5 years, we will spend our time outside discovering the natural environment with its woodland, grassland and ponds, an inspiring and exciting place to explore.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £0 - £7
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Fri 02, June 2023 13:00 - 15:00

    Eco Explorers ( 5-8 years) Minibeast Hunt - Join us to look for minibeasts. Go exploring and look under rocks, and branches, search the grass and trees and discover the variety of insects and invertebrates we find. Use magnifying glasses to look closer, identify what we find and record them and discover why they are important and how to look after them.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £15
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Fri 02, June 2023 13:00 - 15:00

    Eco Adventurers (8-11 years) Minibeast Safari - Search through logs, leave and shake the trees in one of our beautiful natural environments. Find and identify minibeast, find out how they survive and build them a new home.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £15
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Sat 03, June 2023 10:30 - 15:00

    Eco Champions (7+ years) Insects and Creepy Crawlies - Join us to look for minibeasts. Go exploring and look under rocks, and branches, search the grass and trees and discover the variety of insects and invertebrates we find. Use magnifying glasses to look closer, identify what we find and record them and discover why they are important and how to look after them.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £5 - £15
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Mon 24, July 2023 09:30 - Thu 27, July 2023 16:00

    John Muir Discover Award - There are four challenges at the heart of each John Muir Award and through this 4 day course you will complete the following… Discover a wild place, Explore it, Do something to Conserve it, Share your experience. Activities will include using a compass to navigate, bushcraft skills including shelter building and fire lighting, a conservation task, mammal trapping and discovering the plants and animals that live here. This course is hosted at a day centre which doesn’t have accommodation facilities.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £180.00
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Thu 03, August 2023 10:00 - 12:00

    Eco Tots (18 months - 5 Years)  - Come and explore our beautiful environment. Aimed at 18 months - 5 years, we will spend our time outside discovering the natural environment with its woodland, grassland and ponds, an inspiring and exciting place to explore.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £0 - £7
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Thu 03, August 2023 13:00 - 15:00

    Eco Explorers ( 5-8 years) Map Exploring - Learn about maps and compasses, play navigation games and use your skills to follow routes.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £15
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Thu 03, August 2023 13:00 - 15:00

    Eco Adventurers (8-11 years) Map Challenge -Enter the world of maps and practise your compass skills by exploring. Learn how to read maps, create your own map and have a go at orienteering.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £15
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Thu 10, August 2023 10:00 - 12:00

    Eco Tots (18 months - 5 Years)  - Come and explore our beautiful environment. Aimed at 18 months - 5 years, we will spend our time outside discovering the natural environment with its woodland, grassland and ponds, an inspiring and exciting place to explore.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £0 - £7
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Thu 10, August 2023 13:00 - 15:00

    Eco Explorers ( 5-8 years) Butterflies - Be inspired by butterflies and moths- play games, spot butterflies and make some butterfly crafts to take home.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £15
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Thu 10, August 2023 13:00 - 15:00

    Eco Adventurers (8-11 years) Butterflies and Insects - Find out about butterflies and other flying insects- search the grass and flowers for them and keep an eye out for pollinators. Be inspired by nature, play games and make some insect crafts.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £15
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Thu 17, August 2023 10:00 - 12:00

    Eco Tots (18 months - 5 Years)  - Come and explore our beautiful environment. Aimed at 18 months - 5 years, we will spend our time outside discovering the natural environment with its woodland, grassland and ponds, an inspiring and exciting place to explore.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £0 - £7
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Thu 17, August 2023 13:00 - 15:00

    Eco Explorers ( 5-8 years) Discovering Plants and Flowers - Look for different flowers and find out about them. Explore colours and shapes of flowers in the area and have a go at making some flower inspired art.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £15
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Thu 17, August 2023 13:00 - 15:00

    Eco Adventurers (8-11 years) Fantastic Flowers -Explore flowers which come in all the colours of the rainbow. Look closely at plants and flowers, identify them and learn about their structure, their importance to wildlife and other interesting facts.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £15
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Thu 24, August 2023 10:00 - 12:00

    Eco Tots (18 months - 5 Years)  - Come and explore our beautiful environment. Aimed at 18 months - 5 years, we will spend our time outside discovering the natural environment with its woodland, grassland and ponds, an inspiring and exciting place to explore.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £0 - £7
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff
  • Thu 24, August 2023 13:00 - 15:00

    Eco Explorers ( 5-8 years) Summer Nature Walk - Summer is a busy time for wildlife. Join us on a Nature Walk and explore the woods and grassland to discover nature and wildlife. We will use identification guides to name what we find, learn about the creatures and plants we find and discover more about them.

    Region
    London
    Price
    £15
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff

Field Studies Council want to inspire people to be curious, caring and passionate about our environment. Our Eco Adventures are designed to do just that.