30 Days Wild 2024 Sign Up + 200 Nature activity ideas

30 days wild is a fantastic initiative from the Wildlife Trusts in which they encourage people to engage with nature and the outdoors for the 30 days of June. Anyone can take part and if you sign up you can also get a fun, free activity pack here. (There are packs for family’s, care homes, businesses, schools, nursery’s and youth groups.)

Sign up for 30 days Wild Here.

We have been taking part in 30 days wild for 7 years now, Each day in June we try to do a nature related activity each day, exploring, making, baking and learning as we go. We have had so many great adventures, amazing experiences and memorable encounters with wildlife along the way. You can find a full list of all 200+ of our activity ideas listed below for inspiration. Or you could do something as simple as stopping to smell the flowers, listening to birdsong or feeling the grass beneath your feet.

There are so many things you can do to help nature, from making your garden more wildlife friendly, litter picking, getting involved in conservation and going plastic free, to volunteering at local nature reserves, supporting wildlife charities, and donating or petitioning on behalf of environmental causes.

But the most important thing you can do is share your passion and enthusiasm for it, show pictures, share stories, educate and encourage others to join in with you. We protect the things we care about, and in order to get society to care about nature we first have to get them to engage with it.

For me personally 30 days wild is very much about encouraging others to enjoy and care about nature, it’s about raising awareness and passing on knowledge, promoting conservation and supporting our local nature reserves and wildlife charities, not just for 30 days wild but as something we embrace as part of our daily lives all year round. I want my children to grow up to enjoy and appreciate nature, to be inquisitive, curious and care about the world around them.

Each day we will post up photos of our new activities for 2022 to hopefully inspire someone else to try something new. We would love for you to join us on our 30 days wild adventures and engage with nature in June even if its just in some small way.

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30 Days Wild 2023 activities

30 Days Wild 2022 activities

30 Days Wild 2021 activities

30 DAYS WILD 2020 ACTIVITIES

30 DAYS WILD 2019 ACTIVITIES

30 DAYS WILD 2018 ACTIVITIES

1. Made a slowworm shelter in the garden.
2. Explored the shore and found jellyfish, crabs and winkles. We also visited a local pond and saw some baby swans.
3. Catching crabs and tree climbing.
4. Making cress seed caterpillars.
5. Homemade natural perfume.
6. Sunprint nature shapes on photographic paper
7. Baked rosemary biscuits and went on a wild walk
8. We set up an antarium to observe ants and made banana milkshakes
9. Went to the National Oceanography centre open day and picked strawberries and peas
10. Painted rocks to hide for others to find.
11. Grew a mushroom and made bird feeder bunting and a footprint tracker
12. Strawberry ice lollies and a hedgehog house.
13. Learning about decomposition and making an insect house we also encountered a Stag beetle.
14. Exploring a woodland park and feeding the ducks.
15. Made ice decorations and went strawberry picking
16 Helped with a Bioblitz at Peartree nature reserve
17. Celebrated Swanwick Lakes 25th birthday and enjoyed the family day activities
18. Sowed some wildflower seeds and supported our local nature reserves
19. Making strawberry jam, took habitat reference photos and spotted a dragonfly
20. Making wildflower seed bombs
21. Picked Rhubarb and ran wild in the fields, meadow and on the shore.
22. Enjoyed flowers and tried to help out the bees
23. Raising caterpillars and looking for minibeasts
24. Litterpicking, nature watch and making tree spirits
25. Making sun catchers and checked on our caterpillars
26. Raising Triops
27. Rainbow nature hunt and cloud binoculars
28. Den building and a teddy bears tea party
29. Nature games
30. Picking blackberries and spotting butterflies

30 DAYS WILD 2017 ACTIVITIES

1. Collected flowers from the garden to talk about, press and preserve.
2. We made a wormery and we also found a worm, slowworm, and dung beetle in the garden.
3. Played a colour nature hunt game and we found a red cardinal beetle.
4. Released butterflies we had watched grow from caterpillars and found banded and garden snails to compare and talk about
6. Planted bee friendly wildflower seeds
7. Broadbean picking and we found ladybirds and ladybird larvae.
8. Picked different herbs to touch, taste, smell and talk about
9. Played a Nature Bingo/finding game in the garden
10. Joined the Butterfly Conservation Society and collected natural objects to make nature art.
11. Made colourful nature paints from flowers, fruit and plants.
13. Made a small animal foot print tracker.
14. Found some woodlice and picked strawberries to draw and eat.
15. Tried crabbing and didn’t catch anything so we explored instead and counted squirrels.
16. Crabbing successfully this time, also accidently caught a fish (we let it go)
17. Took apart a rose and talked about flowers and pollination.
18. Talked about spiders and made a spider web catcher.
19. Made a butterfly shelter.
20. Made a ladybird house
21. Looked at tadpoles and talked about the life cycle of a frog.
22. Pond dipping and talking about pong plants and wildlife.
23. Collecting different types of seeds to look and talk about.
24. Rock balancing on the shore.
25. Bug hunt in the garden and we found Rose sawfly larvae on the rose leaves.
27. Made a rain measure and talked about the water cycle.
28. Made a weather monitor and a wind sock and talked about the different types of weather.
29. Blackberry, strawberry, pea and courgette picking as well as finding and holding ladybirds.
30. Taking part in the big butterfly count.