Dressing your toddler for cold weather

There’s no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing,” according to Lancastrian rambler Alfred Wainwright, and his words are a good guide to dressing children for a day out in the woods! What we recommend when dressing your toddler is to make sure they have wriggle room for toes inside their boots, thick wool […]

Meet the Home Education Team!

Hello I’m Eve, and together with Ruth, we run the Home Education group. It’s an amazing place for children to spend time in nature, learn survival skills, cook over the campfire, play games, learn about the natural world, hear and create stories, make arts and crafts, play… and just be themselves! Between Ruth and myself […]

It’s a Mast Year for the humble Acorn!

Have you noticed LOADS of acorns under the oak trees this Autumn? That’s because it’s a Mast Year for acorns. Get planting this bounty! A mast year is when the trees have a bumper crop and produce much more fruit/seeds than they normally would. Trees such as oak and beech fluctuate massively year on year […]

Try at home recipe… Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

We’ve been enjoying cooking these over the campfire this week. With Halloween fast approaching here’s a recipe that makes sure none of the pumpkin gets wasted! Pumpkin seeds are composed of two parts; the cream-coloured shell and the kernel which is olive green in colour. Both are edible, so you can’t go wrong roasting the […]

Try at home recipe… Apple Flapjacks

We’ve been enjoying mixing and cooking these at camp with the children this week. A real hit and the added bonus they don’t contain sugar! We cooked them in our Dutch oven over the campfire, but oven cooking will be just as good. Ingredients 200g Oats 1 tsp cinnamon 60g sultanas 2 Cooking apples (peeled […]

Try at home recipe… Chocolate Campfire Biscuits

Many Wild Tots and their parents have been enjoying these delicious chocolate biscuits this week. We cooked them between leaves in a big pan over the fire, but they can also be baked at home in your oven. We always strive to make dairy free recipes for the many dairy free children who attend our […]

Through your eyes: Holiday Club from a parent’s perspective

I can’t remember when we first came across A Touch of the Wild but we enjoyed a few family open days in the woods when the girls were very small. They loved to run around in the woods and play in the mud kitchen but more than anything they loved the campfire!  Ever since the […]

What’s On: Autumn

All of our events take place in beautiful woodland at Grammarcombe Woods, Ashcombe Estate, near Exeter and we run many different events throughout the year for families with kids of all ages. We’ve got lots of fun happening in camp over Autumn, including our Halloween Family Fun Day, October Half Term Woodland Adventure Club, and our very […]

Try at home recipe… Elderberry Syrup

We’ve been enjoying a lot of blackberry and apple jam over the campfire at Wild Tots this week. But another Autumn fruit flourishing in the hedgerows at the moment is the Elderberry, packed with Vitamin C it makes a delicious syrup which can help to ward off those colds we’re all soon to be full of!  […]

Through our eyes: Holiday Club from the leader’s perspective

“It’s always a real joy watching children play freely in the forest, but even better after Lockdown. Some wonderful friendships have been formed this year and each and every one of the children who’ve attended have really relished the time to hang out with other children. Holiday Club is by far and away my favourite […]