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Bags of Creativity
We’re pleased today to be able to announce our involvement in the Bags of Creativity project! Thanks to the hard work of various organisations in our region, 8,000 vulnerable children and young people across Yorkshire and the Humber will be receiving Bags of Creativity this Summer. The bags are designed to make sure all children
Activities 1-16: Downloads
We have been sharing an activity every week since March and you can follow the links below to access our activities from Week 1 through to Week 16, in a single document you can download… Home Version – Download here School Version – Download here
Activity 16 – Let’s Get Talking
This week, the instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to build up a bank of conversation starters that you can have ready up your sleeve, for the next time you’re speaking with someone. These could come in handy the next time you get to talk to a friend, either in person or over
Activity 15 – Nature’s Treasure Hunt
This week, the instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to take a journey on the road to discovery! Set off as you usually might on a stroll about your local area, but today… Tread lightly with the footsteps of a fox, stalking its prey. Consider the world around you with a squirrel’s quick
Activity 14 – Cartoon My Walk
This week, the instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to illustrate a walk – either one that you’re going to go on today, or a walk that you have been on recently. You can enjoy this activity at home or at school, and it can be completed inside or outside, anything goes! Every
Activity 13 – Orienteering Second Steps
This week, the instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are taking your talent for orienteering to the next level, now that you’ve successfully mastered the basics. In the Second Steps challenge, the instructors are challenging you to draw and follow a dot map. This is going to be a little trickier than the shape map you
Activity 12 – Orienteering First Steps
This week, the instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to learn one of the first steps towards become an orienteer, which is the art of drawing a map, and then charting your way across the map as you navigate through the territory before you. Orienteering requires good navigation skills, and navigation is a key
Activity 11 – Lava Pool
This week, the instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to cross a treacherous lava pool, stepping from rock to rock to avoid falling into a pool of molten lava! You’d better tread carefully or… BANG! you’ll sink beneath the lava and the volcano will erupt. That means back to the beginning for you! The
Activity 10 – Pyramid
This week, we’re travelling back in time to Ancient Egypt to try our hand at pyramid building. The instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to construct a pyramid yourself, and then imagine that you have to relocate it to avoid a sudden plague of locusts! Without breaking the key rules, how will you
Activity 9 – Recycling Towers
Rather than taking your plastic and cardboard recycling out… build it up! This week, the instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to take on a big build using only recycling. If you wait until you have lots of recycling ready to be taken out to the bin, then rescue it on its way, you’ll

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