How to Teach Kids About Nature: 4 Simple Outdoor Activities Introduction Learning how to teach kids about nature doesn’t have to mean overwhelming them with big topics like climate change or plastic pollution. The secret to raising nature-loving children is building a deep, joyful connection to the outdoors first. When children learn to love the…
5 Easy Screen Free Nature Activities for Kids Let’s be completely honest for a minute: technology isn’t the enemy, but screen-time fatigue is very real. Finding engaging screen free nature activities that actually keep kids entertained can feel like an uphill battle when iPads are in the room. As parents, we’ve all been there. You’re trying to…
World Ranger Day for kids is a chance to meet a quiet kind of hero. Every year on the 31st of July, the world stops to say thank you to the people who protect the wild. Not the kind of hero in capes or films. The kind who wakes before dawn, walks miles through the…
My eldest identified a bird on the fence post the other morning before I’d even looked up. Short curved beak, he said, so it eats insects not seeds. He wasn’t quoting a fact card. He was reading the bird the way you might glance at someone’s shoes and make a guess about their day. Instinctively,…
By Katie Wormald | Kate on Safari | Wild Wisdom Safari for neurodivergent children is something almost nobody in the tourism industry talks about honestly. So, I recently asked a group of parents of neurodivergent children one simple question: what would stop you from taking your child on safari? One answer made me laugh out…
By Katie Wormald | Kate on Safari | Life in the Bush Open vehicle safari for families is one of the questions I am asked more than almost any other – and the honest answer might surprise you. Ask most people to picture a safari and they will imagine an open vehicle. Open sides, no…
By Katie Wormald | Kate on Safari | Wild Wisdom When did your child last sit quietly and watch something for ten minutes without being asked to? Not a screen. Not a video. Not something designed to hold their attention with noise and colour and constant movement. Just – something. A beetle. A bird. A…
By Katie Wormald | Kate on Safari | Life in the Bush | Raising Wild-Hearted Children Teaching children about the environment looks different when you live inside a game reserve. This morning, before the school run, my children watched a flock of guinea fowl at the front door. Nobody commented. Nobody reached for a phone….
By Katie Wormald | Kate on Safari | Wild Wisdom | Raising Wild-Hearted Children | Life in the Bush An educational safari for kids is, in our house, simply life. My children have been on safari hundreds of times – literally from birth. They have grown up inside iSimangaliso Wetland Park, one of Africa’s greatest…
By Katie Wormald | Kate on Safari | Raising Wild-Hearted Children There is a particular kind of morning that resets everything. My children pile into the back of the game vehicle before the sun has fully committed to the day. Within minutes they have built a fort in the boot out of blankets, wildlife books…
