Simple family fun.

Turn an ordinary walk into a challenge.  Suddenly its interesting, competitive & lots of fun.

Do you like the idea of getting the kids away from gadgets & gaming and mobile devices?

                      

Go for a walk.  Better still turn it into an adventure.  Follow a map.  There are 3 different illustrated children’s walk leaflets. Find them in the cottage and in the Keld Countryside Heritage Centre.

Go stream walking, search for fossils, spot a heron or a swallow or a mallard.

Listen for sounds that are new to you.  What is that noise?  A tractor or a quad bike or the chug, chug, chug of an old fashioned small hay baler?  What makes that pee-wit, pee-wit sound?  Listen to the bleating of a mother sheep (ewe or yow in the Yorkshire Dales) and see how quickly her lamb comes running.

What’s living in the water?  Tadpoles, skaters, sticklebacks? 

Search for fossils.  You’ll find the strangest things.

And all the while, without even noticing it, breath in lungfuls of fresh air, work up a healthy appetite and sleep like babies!