A Selection From Our Assisted Activities Menu:

Amazing Autumn: Seed Hunt and Autumn Story Trail - Discover the life cycle of a tree and seed dispersal mechanisms while hunting out seeds and following our Seasonal Story Trail.

Amazing Autumn: Autumn Colour Collection and Colour Change Game - Collect and take away all the colours of autumn and find out why the leaves change colour.

Decomposer Detectives: The hands on activities based in our new compost area include: What Can I Compost?, Soil Soup, The Heap As A Habitat, Compost Creature Relay and Lunch Box Challenge.

Pond Dipping: Explore and identify the creatures living beneath the water of our spectacular lake.

Minibeast Hunt & Habitat Creation: Go on a bug hunt, use our bug dials for identification and explore the creatures habitats before creating one your own.

Meet a Tree: Get up close and personal with some of our largest residents. This activity will really test your senses!

Colour Collection: Make your own colour palette from spring and summer wildflowers or amazing autumn leaves.

Seasonal Story Trail: Find the seasonal adjectives hidden amongst the tress and create your own story or poem.

Amazing Art: From collecting materials for simple collages and sculptures to A Level projects, the arboretum provides inspiration a plenty and we offer a wide range of creative activities.

Lumberjack Challenge: Can your team be the best at measuring and recording the vital statistics of some of our 6000 trees.

Bird Watching: Use binoculars or hide in our bird observatory to watch and identify some of the Arboretums more active inhabitants.

Story Sticks: It is said that the Aborignal people collected items onto their walking sticks to remind them of their route on long journeys, in the Arboretum children can collect items onto their own story stick, to help them remember their day and to use for writing stories back at school.

Unnature Trail: Can you spot unnatural objects in the forest as you wind your way along our unnature trail?

Walking With Woodlice: Part of our Gifted and Talented Programme, students take part in a woodlice survey and learn to identify some of the species common to the Arboretum.