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Home > Art > If you go down to the woods today…

If you go down to the woods today…

By Caroline King - November 21, 2021Posted in : Art, FEATURED-STORIES, Nature and Outdoors, Walks

Venture out with your family to enjoy nature in a new way with eight creative boxes in Harpford Woods near Sidmouth.

These new wooden Creative Nature Boxes are installed in the woods and are designed to encourage you to connect with the nature around you. Each box contains a different creative prompt to get you thinking.

There are calming activities like forest bathing (shinrin-yoku) and meditation. Plus, contemplative suggestions such as writing a Haiku poem and ‘thoughts for the future’. And of course there are child-friendly activities like making a nature bracelet and ways to make a linear walking map.

Creative Nature Boxes in Devon
Find the Creative Nature Boxes in Devon

The idea for the Creative Nature Boxes came after a successful pilot project, Art on the East Devon Way by Thelma Hulbert Gallery (THG), East Devon AONB and Clinton Devon Estates. Now, this new project builds on the idea, with the local community, Double Elephant Print Workshop and East Devon AONB Partnership helping to add new activities to the boxes.

Harpford’s ancient woodland

Harpford is an ancient woodland and a great place to explore on foot, whatever the season. The boxes aim to help you keep exploring and seeing the woods in new ways, creating connections with the natural world as you go. And you can find these boxes now. Take a look in each one and share your photos, comments and ideas on social media, tagging @thelmahulbertgallery and @eastdevonAONB.

To find the woods and the boxes, start just off the A3052 at Ordnance Survey grid reference SY 1051 9066 and Google Maps Plus Code PP5H+XW Sidmouth. Or start at Harpford village, using Ordnance Survey grid reference SY 0925 9051 and Google Maps Plus Code PP47+VGQ Sidmouth.

Creative Nature Boxes in Devon
Make a nature bracelet

Looking for more stuff to do with the family? Head over here!

When: The boxes are in place now and the woods can be explored any time
Where: Harpford, Devon
£: Free to visit

More info: www.thelmahulbert.com

Tagged With: Devon events, Family events, South West

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