Make and Do bird kebabs, food on wire ready to be completed

Activities

We've got lots of things for you to try!

Have a look at the activities on this page and find your favourites.

Wild Challenge

Wild Challenge is your chance to help wildlife, explore nature, and work towards awards by making your way through a heap of wild activities!

Other activities

A child coloring in a notebook with bird ID sheets next to her

Card Game: Garden bird-off

Challenge your friends to find the best garden birds!

Build a bird

Missed an edition of Wild Explorer's six-issue build-a-bird activity? Find the PDFs here!
Completed bird kebab

Make a bird kebab

Create a yummy kebab, hang it up outside, and hang on for your feathered friends to come flocking for lunch.

Make a speedy bird cake

Make this quick and easy cake to keep the birds happy.
Great tit on a recycled bottle feeder

Make a recycled bird feeder

Make a bird feeder from the bottles you would throw away.
Girl holding an apple bird feeder

Assemble an apple bird feeder

This core activity is easy to complete and is bound to make your bird-loving friends green with envy.
Great tit on a pine cone feeder

Produce a pine cone feeder

Sticky fun for you and a warming, winter treat for the birds.
Homes for wildlife, in the garden at The Lodge

Make a nestbox

If you’d like to help the birds in your garden, why not have a go at making your own nestbox?
Washing away dirt to reveal the Plaster Cast of Animal Tracks

Making Cast of Animal Prints

A step-by-step guide to making a cast of the animal prints you find in your garden!
Children doing activities, RSPB Ribble Discovery Centre

Make a food chain mobile

Decorate your room with this smart mobile and learn about the food chain at the same time.
RSPB Rye Meads, family triathlon event

Make a string bird

Make your own bird template to create textured wax crayon rubbings.
'Wild Art' event, young boy taking part in activity, Coombes Valley RSPB reserve, Leek, Staffordshire

Make a flock of fingers

These starling finger puppets are really easy to make. Why not make a starling for each finger and create a whole flock?
Girl with feathers, RSPB Wildlife Explorers at The Lodge

Make a feather fan

A quick, fan-tastic craft idea!
Daffodils at Brading marshes RSPB reserve, Ryde, Isle of Wight

Make an origami daffodil

Creating a flower that will bloom all year round couldn't be easier.

Go on an indoor scavenger hunt!

Bring the wild inside with our indoor scavenger hunt! The perfect activity for a rainy day

Quiz - what’s that garden bird?

Can you guess that garden bird using just these colour charts? Take our challenge and put your skills to the test!