12 Days Wild Christmas

12 Days Wild is the festive nature challenge from The Wildlife Trusts, encouraging you to do one wild thing a day in those days between Christmas & New Year - Winter wildlife is just waiting to be explored!

Your wild acts could be little things to help nature - like recycling your Christmas tree or feeding the birds - or ways to connect to the natural world, like walking off your Christmas dinner in the woods or admiring the beauty of stargazing.

• Recycle wrapping paper, boxes and plastics, and see what you can reuse
• Feeling the crisp air on your skin as you go for a morning walk
• Use Christmas leftovers to make bird feeders (such as fat balls & left over nuts, seeds and crackers)
• Reuse your Christmas tree to make a log pile shelter for wildlife (remove needles though!)
• Make a twig winter decoration
• Visit a nature reserve, park or got on a wintery beach walk - See our guide to North Norfolk nature reserves
  
• Go stargazing - The area around Deepdale, particularly Barrow Common is a dark skies area
  
• Listen to nature's own Christmas carol: the crunch of leaves, bark of a roe deer, or screech of a barn owl
• Set eco New Year's resolutions
• Photograph the frost
• Do some winter gardening
• Write down three things you're grateful about nature

Share your photos and videos on social media using the hashtag #12DaysWild

Price: Free, just wrap up warm and head outside

Location: Anywhere you enjoy nature & wildlife

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Why not stay at Deepdale Camping & Rooms for '12 Days Wild Christmas'