Your challenge: design and build a base camp for summer fun :O)
What will it look like?
What would your ideal base camp look like and what would you need inside it?
You'll need a roof over your head, a bed, space to put your adventuring supplies, a door , a flag...can you think of anything else?
my ideal base camp
We'd love to see what it looks like :O)
email your drawing to us
Build it
Now you have an idea of what it should look like, get building!
den building tips
If you're in a group you could even make it into a competition. Who can build their den the quickest? Who can build the biggest? Who can build the wackiest?
Take a photo of your den and email it to us. We'd love to put it on the website :O)
let us see your den
What's your nickname
You've probably heard of Bear Grylls the adventurer.
Now you have your own base camp where you'll have loads of adventures give yourself a cool nature-inspired name :O)
Bev's name would be Tawny Ash.
What's your brilliant adventuring nickname?
tell us
Let the adventures begin
Let your imagination run wild! Your base camp could be:
- a pirate ship on the high seas
- a tree house
- a spaceship
- an island
- a teepee
- a badger's sett
- a bird's nest
What would you like it to be?
tell us
Play a game
This is a fast paced game involving paper animals and showing how much you know about wildlife :O)
how to play
small animals to cut out
medium animals to cut out
Do you know any other fun games that can be played at your base camp?
share them with us
Enter the big summer challenge
We're looking for the UK's most adventurous family.
Print out this booklet and take it with you on your adventures :O)
big summer challenge booklet
If you enter the competition you could win another year of adventure in the CLUB, an explorer backpack filled with outdoor kit and the brand new Nature Detectives I-spy book.
Remember your adventures
Draw a picture of you in your base camp and share with us all of the adventures that you had :O)
my adventures
email your drawing to us
Email your stories and photos to get them published on the website:
naturedetectives@woodlandtrust.org.uk
Built a base camp?
Stick these jars of honey
onto your CLUB
challenge poster :O)