12 Days Wild

A midwinter nature challenge

12 Days Wild is our festive nature challenge, encouraging you to do one wild thing a day from the 25th December to the 5th January each year. In those quiet days between Christmas and New Year, winter wildlife is just waiting to be explored!

Your wild acts could be little things to help nature - like recycling your Christmas tree or feeding the birds – or ways to connect to the natural world, like trying stargazing. Sign up to receive a digital pack to help you to take part. All our resources are also available in Welsh!

Your wild winter adventure

When you sign up to take part in 12 Days Wild, you'll receive a digital pack containing:

A wallchart to mark your progress
A word scramble
A wordsearch
12 wild ideas to help you plan
Lots of extra activity ideas

We'll also send you daily emails during the challenge, full of activity ideas and wildlife facts.

The digital resources available through 12 Days Wild! A wallchart to mark off your daily activities, 12 wild ideas and a wild wordsearch

Take a look at some of our guides below for more inspiration for your winter activities this #12DaysWild!

A small flock of Juvenile Common / Eurasian cranes (Grus grus), released by the Great Crane Project onto the Somerset Levels and Moors, running to take off from frozen, snow covered pastureland on a foggy winter morning. Somerset, UK, December 2010. - Nick Upton/2020VISION/naturepl.com