Waldscouts Dertingen

BY REQUEST Ideas for an unforgettable children's birthday party Watch the clouds with a blade of grass in your mouth, run through cornfields, splash vigorously through puddles, climb trees, and feel as free as a bird. These are nature experiences that have remained firmly etched in the minds and hearts of adults when they look back on their childhood spent with and in nature. We want to give your child and their guests a lovely memory like this at a children's birthday party in nature in Leipzig. Our birthday party ideas for children are tailored to their age and the season, with wonderful craft activities and nature games for children & young people. We have a selection of themes to serve as inspiration, featuring lots of exciting forest games. Forest birthday parties for boys and girls Whether you want to go on a treasure hunt, do crafts in a creative nature workshop, or play adventurous forest games—we have exciting birthday party ideas ready for boys and girls of various age groups. Celebrating a children's birthday party in the forest can have many advantages, because we can make use of the natural elements and the open space that nature offers for our special occasion. G

With the Woodland Explorers, you can enjoy nature adventure days in our area around the Sechs-Seen-Platte in Duisburg throughout the year. Depending on the weather and the season, we roam through the forest, along the water, or even out on the water. We practise all the important skills that could be useful outdoors in nature, and you learn how to find your way around. We are basically in “explorer mode,” following wherever things lead. Freedom to learn and free time in nature make it possible to have many different experiences in nature, even close to the city, and to build a stronger connection with the natural environment. We explore the animal and plant life in each season and, above all, spend a lot of time moving around. We won’t just walk: sometimes we’ll be very quiet, build, climb, whittle, paddle on the water in a canoe or on a SUP, or let the wind blow us along while sailing. On some dates, you can also look forward to a little forest yoga journey. It strengthens your sense of your body and gives you extra superpowers if you need to overcome a few obstacles on your next nature adventure. If you like, a badge awaits you at the end of your time as a Woodland Explorer, pro

Welcome to Fuchs Club Escape everyday life. Get out into nature. Head into adventure. Welcome to Fuchs Club – the new workshop series for children aged 5 to 15 who would rather be outdoors than sit still indoors. Here, children discover, experiment, build, play, marvel, and sometimes get a little dirty. 😉

By the time this wilderness and nature education program begins, it is already autumn and many trees have lost their leaves. Perhaps one storm or another has given us lots of branches. We can use them for building—for example, a proper shelter or a tipi. Winter is approaching and it gets dark earlier, so we can play lots of games in the dark while staying within the safety of the grounds. This is especially exciting and sharpens the senses. You know how it is: some animals are only out at night and can only be spotted in the dark. Of course, we also use light, and the campfire will often keep us warm when we carve tools or need some hot, fresh herbal tea. If the weather is too rainy or stormy, we explore and discover nature in our project workshop in a playful or experimental way. One thing always applies: Whether it rains or the sun shines during our activities, we explore our surroundings, build, search, gather, play, paint, hide, make crafts, carve, and learn through play about our wild neighbors—the animals of the forest, as well as the plants and trees of the season. If it gets a little chilly, we warm ourselves by the campfire.

With our forest explorer groups and forest playgroups, we create a space for children and families to spend an exciting, educational and memorable time in the forest outside childcare and school hours. The groups meet regularly outdoors, are led by a qualified forest playgroup leader and cover four age groups in total: Waldmäuse (Forest Mice): for expectant parents and parents with children aged 0 to 2Waldbienen (Forest Bees): for parents with children aged 2 to 4Waldameisen (Forest Ants): for children aged 4 to 6Waldfüchse (Forest Foxes): for children aged 6 to 12

“There was a mother who had four children: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter…” As the year goes round, we hold weekend wilderness camps for children and young people. Together with the animals and plants in the surrounding area, we experience the different seasons and their qualities, and observe how they and we change. We go tracking, practise the skills of traditional peoples, and discover that there is no such thing as bad weather! Our weekend camps are the ideal introduction to our wild world and, during the warmer months, are also suitable for participants with no prior experience.