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Simple pleasures, easily found - on your doorstep

Getting into the outdoors needn't be a big adventure with lots of planning or serious equipment.  We want to inspire you with simple, doable, achievable and desirable activities.  We've got some suggestions below.

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Nature really is on your doorstep, so take some time out to enjoy life's simple pleasures:

• Find out the age of a living tree
• Write your name in the sand
• Make the sound of an owl in the woods
• Go rock pooling
• Collect wild fruit
• Make a daisy chain
• Freewheel down a hill
• Collect seeds
• Take a magnifying glass for a close look at flowers and insects
• Make a picture on the beach with shells, pebbles and driftwood
• Watch the sunset
• Watch the sunrise
• Feel the wind in your hair
• See sunbeams coming through trees
• Make shadows of animals
• Sit on a bench and watch the world go by
• Lie in a field and watch the clouds go by
• Smell wild flowers
• Watch a river flow
• Play Pooh sticks
• Make snow angels
• Follow a rainbow
• Star gaze
• Choose to get wet in the rain
• Make home made soup and take it with you in a flask
• Comb a beach for treasure
• Encourage children to record their adventures by drawing their favourite simple pleasure; be it an animal, plant, insect or view
• Learn the names of trees
• Go fishing
• Collect conkers
• Keep a nature diary and update it through the seasons
• Climb a hill and enjoy the view
• Skim stones
• Ride a bike through a puddle
• Climb a tree
• Put on your wellies and splash in puddles
• Blow a dandelion clock
• Feed the ducks
• Have a picnic
• Fly a kite
• Chalk out and play hopscotch
• Do cartwheels and handstands
• Play tig
• Look for a lucky four-leaf clover
• Balance on a log
• Breathe in really fresh air
• Spot fish in a river
• Roll down a hill
• Play hide and seek
• Go sledging
• Make a sandcastle