Our home for the week! Arrived safely, had lunch and straight into the wilderness for woodland skills! Bear Grylls OBE would be proud! 🪵🔥🏕️🌳🌲

Wonderful day hanging about in the trees at Burnbake Ropes yesterday! We’re so proud of the courage on show by 🦦 they embraced every challenge! Brenscombe Outdoor Centre @CLOtC Association of Heads of Outdoor Education Centres

What A Day! 😎🤩 6.5 mile trek along the Purbeck Ridge National Trust NT Dorset.hft 🐉 $MON & then an afternoon on the stunning Studland Beach 🤩… and ice creams!!! 🍦@CLOtC Association of Heads of Outdoor Education Centres Brenscombe Outdoor Centre

Otters final full day! 😪 but what a cracker! A 2 mile coastal walk from Durlston to Dancing ledge followed by an afternoon of rock climbing & abseiling! 🤩🧗🏼 Brenscombe Outdoor Centre National Trust Dorset Wildlife Trust Jurassic Coast NT

And that’s a wrap! 🦦 say goodbye to Brenscombe Outdoor Centre after the most wonderful week of adventures! It’s going to be a very quiet journey home! 🥱😴😮‍💨

A final post just showing the resilience, courage, perseverance & teamwork shown by 🦦 this week! They were so brave and overcame so many challenges… helping their independence grow exponentially! So proud! 🤩

Nature can be breathtakingly beautiful can't it.

I’m going to miss the Bean so much 🥺Never imagined 7 years would pass so quickly! It’s been such a privilege watching her grow, learn & become the confident, strong & truly beautiful young person she is today ❤️ I’m so proud of her & a be part of her St John’s Primary - Redhill adventure🌳

Amazing what you can do with just strips cut from an old cardboard box. darrellwakelam.com

Here's my finished 'Egg Box Rhino'. Inspired by Durer's famous Rhinoceros drawing, this was entirely made using pieces cut from egg cartons. darrellwakelam.com

Here’s what all of this week’s making was leading up to . . . the kids from Kingsway Primary in Leamington Spa have created a new ‘welcome’ sign 😮 (and not a zombie in sight 😉) darrellwakelam.com

Well done to our Year 12 Sports Leaders who’ve made a great start to the sessions they are delivering this academic year to students at St John’s Primary - Redhill! Full circle moment for former St John’s student Hollie!

I shared this Poppy idea a couple of years ago, and I know it was pretty popular, so here it is again. All you need is an egg box, PVA glue, & paints. 🙂 *You could get more than one poppy out of each egg box if you attached them to a cardboard base. 👍 darrellwakelam.com

Join us for our new magical story time sessions for primary school kids! ✨📖 On Thursdays from 9 January we run FREE storytime sessions, no booking required - just pop into Redhill Library for 3.45pm. The perfect stop-off on your way home after school...!

I've been over to Countess Gytha Primary today to help their Year 4/5 class to create 'Pompeii in one day' (see what I did there) 😅 . . . check out their amazing buildings. 😮 This is a project straight out of my book. 👍 darrellwakelam.com

Mr O. Williams shared photos this week of these Ancient Greek helmets his Yr 5 kids made using an idea from Art Shaped. They've taken the techniques, but adapted them, used their own creativity, and ended up with beautiful, original results. This is exactly why I wrote this. 🙂👍

This Tuesday, after the Spring bank holiday, we have our first May half-term holiday kids' craft! ✂️We'll be making 'rabbit conjured out of a magician's hat' pop-up toys & classic stage-magician's black-and-white wands. There's no need to book - just turn up! Details below!

Absolutely stunning 10mile walk around Reigate & Banstead Borough Council Surrey Hills National Landscape yesterday! 🥰 found some pretty cool nature too The Wildlife Trusts BBCWildlifeMagazine Wild Orchids UK & Ireland BBKA

These paper plates are still keeping me occupied. There’s no stop-frame animation here, just my hands and a little practice. 😁 Channelling my inner Ray Harryhausen 👍 darrellwakelam.com Ray Harryhausen