Our Wild in the Park sessions are lead by a specialist outdoor learning facilitator in Ally Pally park, starting with a hidden rendez-vous, where individuals and small teams complete challenges that encourage pupils to become responsible park users and treasure community spaces and resources.

We’ve created some online resources to help you and your kids or pupils get wild in the park. Click on Nature Connections below for a series of videos themed around constructing dens, recognising birds and birdsong and learning some fun new games to play with sticks. Beneath you can download more resource packs to help you and the kids have fun outdoors.

Time capsules are a treasure trove of information about people and what they thought was important enough to keep. Curators and archaeologists use these treasures as clues to build up a picture of what a person’s life was like, by studying their possessions, clothing, jewellery, writing and photographs.

Create your own time and place capsule to record the time and place you are living in.

Free creative activities for young kids

Learn new skills from our inspiring roster of artists from the fields of experimental music, set design and fine art.

Step away from your screen and recharge your batteries with a walk around our brand new history trail dedicated to Victorian Balloonist and Parachutist Dolly Shepherd.

The trail begins underneath the Rose Window of the Great Hall, where dare devil Dolly worked as a waitress in 1903, and takes you to the sites of her first trapeze jump, the South Slope where she would meet her adoring fans before take off and an old hot air balloon tether hidden deep in the park.

Walking time approximately 30 mins
Suitable for all ages but especially families with kids