Colourful maple leaf window transparencies brighten up your home with lovely autumnal colours. Transparencies look especially beautiful mounted on a window with the sun shining through them.

This garland made with acorn cups filled with colourful felt balls will brighten up any corner!

These origami seed packets are so easy to make and are great for storing seeds collected from your garden or to share seeds with friends and neighbours.

Blackberry vinegar is a thick, sweet and sour vinegar similar to balsamic vinegar. It’s really easy to make and has so many different uses.

Make these throwable conker comets, and make them fly through the air with their fiery tails!

Make dragonflies from fallen sycamore seeds!

This classic blackberry and apple crumple recipe is so easy to make and is the perfect balance of sweet and tart flavours.

Preserve flower seeds and create a beautiful mobile decoration at the same time!

Using wood slices as miniature canvases for any kind of painting is really fun for kids (and adults!) of all ages. For older children who are moving on from mark-making, this activity shows an easy way to paint a miniature flower meadow on wood slices.

Growing loose leaf lettuce to ‘cut and come again’ is a really quick and easy way to have a fresh, continual supply of salad leaves from spring to autumn (and even in winter if you grow it undercover!) and is great if you have limited growing space.

Over recent years, the numbers of butterflies and moths in the UK have decreased significantly. Here are our top tips to help make your garden or outoor space more butterfly friendly.

Germinating an avocado tree in water is a really fun project. The seed is so different to the seeds of a lot of the plants we usually grow and because they are so big, you get a really good view of what happens when an avocado seed germinates.

Building a mossarium, is really fun - it’s like creating your own mini world! It’s also great for exploring different mosses as well as learning about the water cycle.

This colour changing flowers experiment is a great way to see how water travels in plants and it’s really fun to see the flowers change colour!

A really easy and fun activity making your own charcoal for drawing.

Prints made from the spores of King Alfred’s Cake fungus.

If your children love making potions and love bath bombs, then this activity is for you!

This pickled wild garlic bud recipe allows you to preserve the incredible flavour of wild garlic for a little bit longer. It’s a really easy recipe and a great way for children to get involved in foraging for food.