Nature Club
May
18
9:30 AM09:30

Nature Club

Our Saturday Nature Club sessions are for children aged 4 to 8. Throughout the morning your child can enjoy unstructured play outside in nature using natural and open-ended resources, allowing for diversity in play, which is both nurturing and challenging. The children will have the opportunity to enjoy, nature based seasonal crafts and activities, campfire gatherings/cooking, developing a very healthy respect for the fire and learn how to stay safe around it. All with a nurturing, holistic approach, working with the children in a very gentle and compassionate way.

This is a drop off session, only children attend.

Email: ladybugsandslugs@gmail.com for more information and a booking form

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SEN Stay & Play
May
18
1:00 PM13:00

SEN Stay & Play

Our SEN Stay & Plays sessions are for 2 to 10 year olds. You can come along with your child and their siblings and play in the mud kitchen or on the tree swing, rest in the hammock or around the campfire and safely explore our forest school garden. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Holiday Club
May
28
9:00 AM09:00

Holiday Club

Our Holiday Club is for children aged 5 to 10. Throughout the day, children are provided with natural and open-ended resources, allowing for diversity in play, which is both nurturing and challenging. The children can enjoy, nature based seasonal crafts and activities, traditional games, campfire gatherings/cooking, developing a very healthy respect for the fire and learn how to stay safe around it, opportunity to learn how to use tools safely so they can help chop, snip, saw, hammer and whittle. Our days follow the rhythms of the children and of the seasons. Central to this is the provision of a nurturing, holistic approach, working with the children in a very gentle and compassionate way, with bags of fun and creativity thrown in.

To book a place or for more information please email

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Holiday Club
May
29
9:00 AM09:00

Holiday Club

Our Holiday Club is for children aged 5 to 10. Throughout the day, children are provided with natural and open-ended resources, allowing for diversity in play, which is both nurturing and challenging. The children can enjoy, nature based seasonal crafts and activities, traditional games, campfire gatherings/cooking, developing a very healthy respect for the fire and learn how to stay safe around it, opportunity to learn how to use tools safely so they can help chop, snip, saw, hammer and whittle. Our days follow the rhythms of the children and of the seasons. Central to this is the provision of a nurturing, holistic approach, working with the children in a very gentle and compassionate way, with bags of fun and creativity thrown in.

To book a place or for more information please email

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Stay & Play
Jun
4
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
Jun
12
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
Jun
18
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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SEN Stay & Play
Jun
29
1:00 PM13:00

SEN Stay & Play

Our SEN Stay & Plays sessions are for 2 to 10 year olds. You can come along with your child and their siblings and play in the mud kitchen or on the tree swing, rest in the hammock or around the campfire and safely explore our forest school garden. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
May
15
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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SEN Stay & Play
Apr
27
1:00 PM13:00

SEN Stay & Play

Our SEN Stay & Plays sessions are for 2 to 10 year olds. You can come along with your child and their siblings and play in the mud kitchen or on the tree swing, rest in the hammock or around the campfire and safely explore our forest school garden. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
Apr
23
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
Apr
17
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
Mar
28
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
Mar
26
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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SEN Stay & Play
Mar
23
1:00 PM13:00

SEN Stay & Play

Our SEN Stay & Plays sessions are for 2 to 10 year olds. You can come along with your child and their siblings and play in the mud kitchen or on the tree swing, rest in the hammock or around the campfire and safely explore our forest school garden. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Nature Club
Mar
23
9:30 AM09:30

Nature Club

Our Saturday Nature Club sessions are for children aged 4 to 8. Throughout the morning your child can enjoy unstructured play outside in nature using natural and open-ended resources, allowing for diversity in play, which is both nurturing and challenging. The children will have the opportunity to enjoy, nature based seasonal crafts and activities, campfire gatherings/cooking, developing a very healthy respect for the fire and learn how to stay safe around it. All with a nurturing, holistic approach, working with the children in a very gentle and compassionate way.

This is a drop off session, only children attend.

Email: ladybugsandslugs@gmail.com for more information and a booking form

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Stay & Play
Mar
20
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
Mar
14
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
Mar
12
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
Mar
6
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
Feb
29
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

Available to book from 25 January

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Stay & Play
Feb
27
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

Available to book from 25 January

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SEN Stay & Play
Feb
24
1:00 PM13:00

SEN Stay & Play

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our SEN Stay & Plays sessions are for 2 to 10 year olds. You can come along with your child and their siblings and play in the mud kitchen or on the tree swing, rest in the hammock or around the campfire and safely explore our forest school garden. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

Available to book from 25 January

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Holiday Club
Feb
21
9:00 AM09:00

Holiday Club

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Holiday Club is for children aged 5 to 10. Throughout the day, children are provided with natural and open-ended resources, allowing for diversity in play, which is both nurturing and challenging. The children can enjoy, nature based seasonal crafts and activities, traditional games, campfire gatherings/cooking, developing a very healthy respect for the fire and learn how to stay safe around it, opportunity to learn how to use tools safely so they can help chop, snip, saw, hammer and whittle. Our days follow the rhythms of the children and of the seasons. Central to this is the provision of a nurturing, holistic approach, working with the children in a very gentle and compassionate way, with bags of fun and creativity thrown in.

To book a place or for more information please email

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Holiday Club
Feb
20
9:00 AM09:00

Holiday Club

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Holiday Club is for children aged 5 to 10. Throughout the day, children are provided with natural and open-ended resources, allowing for diversity in play, which is both nurturing and challenging. The children can enjoy, nature based seasonal crafts and activities, traditional games, campfire gatherings/cooking, developing a very healthy respect for the fire and learn how to stay safe around it, opportunity to learn how to use tools safely so they can help chop, snip, saw, hammer and whittle. Our days follow the rhythms of the children and of the seasons. Central to this is the provision of a nurturing, holistic approach, working with the children in a very gentle and compassionate way, with bags of fun and creativity thrown in.

To book a place or for more information please email

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Holiday Club
Feb
19
9:00 AM09:00

Holiday Club

Our Holiday Club is for children aged 5 to 10. Throughout the day, children are provided with natural and open-ended resources, allowing for diversity in play, which is both nurturing and challenging. The children can enjoy, nature based seasonal crafts and activities, traditional games, campfire gatherings/cooking, developing a very healthy respect for the fire and learn how to stay safe around it, opportunity to learn how to use tools safely so they can help chop, snip, saw, hammer and whittle. Our days follow the rhythms of the children and of the seasons. Central to this is the provision of a nurturing, holistic approach, working with the children in a very gentle and compassionate way, with bags of fun and creativity thrown in.

To book a place or for more information please email

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Stay & Play
Feb
15
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
Feb
13
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

Available to book from 25 January

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Stay & Play
Feb
7
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

Available to book from 25 January

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Stay & Play
Feb
1
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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SEN Stay & Play
Jan
27
1:00 PM13:00

SEN Stay & Play

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our SEN Stay & Plays sessions are for 2 to 10 year olds. You can come along with your child and their siblings and play in the mud kitchen or on the tree swing, rest in the hammock or around the campfire and safely explore our forest school garden. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Open Morning
Jan
27
9:30 AM09:30

Open Morning

We welcome you and your child to join us for an open morning in our beautiful garden.

If you are interested in our nursery provision please come along and learn all about what Ladybugs and Slugs has to offer. Your little ones can have a play then you can all enjoy a warming drink around the fire.

To book a place please email: ladybugsandslugs@gmail.com

Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School, Holmes Chapel Road, Congleton, CW12 4SS

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Stay & Play
Jan
24
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
Jan
18
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
Jan
10
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

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Stay & Play
Dec
7
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

Available to book from 25 October

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Stay & Play
Nov
29
9:30 AM09:30

Stay & Play

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Stay & Play sessions are for birth to 3 year olds, so bring your little ones along to play in the mud kitchen, dig for treasure and be free to safely explore where their curiosity leads them. You are also welcome with babies that are not yet walking and start your baby on their ‘love of nature’ journey. So come along and enjoy a morning in nature. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

Available to book from 25 October

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SEN Stay & Play
Nov
25
1:00 PM13:00

SEN Stay & Play

  • Ladybugs and Slugs Forest School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our SEN Stay & Plays sessions are for 2 to 10 year olds. You can come along with your child and their siblings and play in the mud kitchen or on the tree swing, rest in the hammock or around the campfire and safely explore our forest school garden. Drinks and snacks are provided for children and adults.

Available to book from 25 October

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