A woodland adventure with nature tots

Today we went to Brockholes nature reserve for their new nature tots programme they started last week but I didn't have the car so wasn't able to get there.  Brockholes is run by the wildlife trust for lancashire, Manchester and north merseyside we have been a few times in the past before G came along. 

The session cost £4 and they hold two groups the first for 15month up to 3yrs then an older group after when we got there we were made to feel very welcome there were a couple of large toy boxes set out to explore while waiting for everyone to arrive and the 3 lovely girls running it were really interactive with the kids.  This weeks programme was a scavenger hunt so we donned Wellies and they provided all in one waterproofs if needed then gave everyone a scavenger bag and a list of things to find

All ready to go complete with 'manbag'!

And off we went into the reserve the girls were brilliant trying to engage the children along the way pointing things out and helping find everything off the list we searched into the trees to look for hazel nuts (even mummy learned something there!)

Once we'd found everything and filled out bags up with other bits and bobs we set off back to the activity centre where we used our gatherings to make a picture 

G loved playing with the glue

We then sat down for a drink and a snack followed by some singing and playing instruments.

Our finished picture

All in all we both had a wonderful time and will definitely be going back.  The only down side to today's outing is the car parking charges we went into the restaurant after for scrambled egg on toast so we had been on the reserve  just over 2 1/2 hrs and the car park came to £4.10 which made the day a little too expensive to be able to participate every week!