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Activity
Trees, leaves and seeds
There's more to wildlife than fur and feathers. Here's your chance to branch out.
Also, you can do all sorts of cool things with seeds. Play conkers with Horse Chestnuts, turn Sycamore seeds into helicopters when you throw them in the air, and make pinecones model Hedgehogs with the help of some paint.
Did you know:
We have over 50 species of native tree in the UK?
Instructions
Find some trees. Search for ones that produce really good seeds, or have interestingly shaped leaves, like Horse Chestnuts, oak and Sycamore. In autumn and winter, they'll be on the ground, but need to look higher up during spring and summer. But please don't pick the leaves or seeds – try taking photos to create a photo diary instead.
If there are lots of dry fallen leaves, notice the texture and whether they crunch when you crumple or step on them. Then you could pile them up, take a run-up and kick your way through them. Watch them fly into the air and descend in a fluttering cloud.