{"id":22568,"date":"2022-10-26T15:08:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=22568"},"modified":"2022-10-26T15:08:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:08:02","slug":"big-wild-walk-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/10\/26\/big-wild-walk-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Wild Walk 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week is the Big Wild Walk week organised by the wildlife trust. It is used to raise money and awareness of the importance of protecting our wildlife. Adults are encouraged to walk 30 km over the week and children are to walk 3km as this is the same distance a hedgehog can walk in a night. We have used this as an opportunity to highlight the importance of caring for our natural world.<br \/>\nWe started by discussing what we know about wildlife, what animals live in the forest and how to look after them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can build wee homes.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe can make beds with leaves.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe can go a walk to check on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then we spoke specifically about hedgehogs and what we know about them. We also made our own hedgehogs using pine cones.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/10\/191751DA-289F-4D60-B173-6CC3069341BB.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22572\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/10\/191751DA-289F-4D60-B173-6CC3069341BB-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHedgehogs have little feet.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThey\u2019re really spiky\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cHedgehogs like chestnuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then we went for a walk to see if we could find any hedgehogs having a sleep and decided to collect leaves while we were there.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/10\/88837E58-3B20-4484-94E3-15A8349672EE.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22570\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/10\/88837E58-3B20-4484-94E3-15A8349672EE-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we got back we used our Autumn leaf spotter sheet to identify the leaves and discover which types of trees are in our forests.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/10\/090B248B-7F7F-412B-BACB-5CB69398C6A0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22571\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/10\/090B248B-7F7F-412B-BACB-5CB69398C6A0-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you like to join in you can find more information here;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.wildlifetrusts.org\/bigwildwalk<\/p>\n<p>Happy walking \ud83d\udeb6\u200d\u2640\ufe0f \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is the Big Wild Walk week organised by the wildlife trust. It is used to raise money and awareness of the importance of protecting our wildlife. 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