CLUB challenge

Friday 4th November
 
 
Woooosh! Pop! Fzzzzzt! BOOM!

Tomorrow It's Bonfire Night and the skies will be lit with some dazzling colours.

Bark and Beetle's Woodland Emporium has opened
a new natural firework shop but they need your
help creating the leaf fireworks.

Have a fun, memorable and safe bonfire night :O)

 

Your challenge is to:
 Open a natural firework shop in the woods 
 

   

Find the perfect spot

Woods are brilliant places for pretending. You can set up Bark and Beetle's natural firework shop on the woodland floor, in a den, up a tree... Let your imagination run wild!

Find a wood with some beautiful
autumn leaves that you can use to
make your fireworks :O)

 

Name your shop

The staff of Bark and Beetle's Woodland Emporium love to give all the different departments wacky names.

The food section is called the Yummery and the shoe department is called Paws and Claws!

Give the natural firework shop a fun name and tell us all about it :O)

share the wacky name with us

 
Collect your materials

This weekend will be one of the best weekends for finding bright yellow, red, gold and purple autumn leaves.

A leaf bag is perfect for collecting them in :O)

leaf collecting bag

 

Get creative

Now you can start making your fireworks :O) 

 leaf fireworks

Also try making a 3D leaf firework. Here's how:

• Roll up a piece of A4 paper into a tube and put a piece of tape around it (or you could use an empty toilet roll tube)
• Collect some autumnal leaves
• Place the leaves into the end of the tube

Easy peasy! You have a 3D leaf firework 

 share your creation with us

 

 

Nature's Catherine Wheel

Have you ever seen a swirly whirly fizzy catherine wheel firework?

Now you can make your own :O)

leafy catherine wheel

We'd love to see videos and photos of you and your catherine wheel in action!

send us your videos and photos
 

 

Opening ceremony

Before your customers can come into the shop you need arrange your fireworks, or create a display. When everything's ready the opening ceremony can begin!

Attract customers by creating a huge piles of leaves then kicking or throwing them all in the air. Just like a real firework display :O)

 leaf storm

You can also try pretending you're a firework that's just been lit, getting louder and louder and swirlier and then... BOOM!

Get your friends involved and see what a noisy, colourful opening ceremony you can create.   

Did you kick up a leaf storm?

send us a photo

 

Send us your stories and ideas, or tell us what you've been up to in the woods: 

naturedetectives@woodlandtrust.org.uk   
 

 

  

 
  

Created a natural firework shop?

Stick this owl sticker over
the hole in the tree trunk on your CLUB
poster and get ready for next
week's challenge :O)

ARTventure - 2 weeks to go!  

If you want to be in with a chance of winning some fantastic prizes don't forget to enter the competition before 18th November :O)

Here are some of the brilliant entries we've received so far:

A mossy crocodile made from twigs, moss and petals.

 

A windfall caterpillar that was made with apples.

 

A nature mandala created with lots and lots of bits and pieces you can find on the woodland floor.

 

Create your own piece of outdoor art this weekend and enter the competition :O)