Pathfinder Planning Guides:

Awesome Autumn Adventures

Pathfinders is our weekly term time online club where we enjoy stories, explore science and try out a
scraptastic activity, all based around a nature topic. There’s also a chance to display your work with the
Pathfinder Display Pack. Our planning pack makes it easy to turn one live lesson into a whole range of
learning opportunities. We’ve broken it down into six open-ended sessions based around the free online
workshop and provided you with suggested activities and resource links to make it your one-stop shop
for your planning.
You can also claim Children’s University codes for completing these activities.

Topic Overview
Awesome Autumn Adventures

Week 1 - Fantastic Fungus

Week 2 - Wonderful Weather
Week 3 - Folktales and Forests
Week 4 - Brilliant Birds
Week 5 - Campfire Tales
Week 6 - Winter Solstice Celebration

Useful Links
• Pathfinders Awesome Autumn
Adventures Weekly Sheets
• YouTube Pathfinders Playlist
• Pathfinder Display Pack

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Week 1 - Fantastic Fungus

Session Suggested Activities Resource Links
Grab a snack (maybe a bowl of mushroom
soup!) and get ready to watch Week 1 - YouTube Pathfinders Playlist
Fantastic Fungus. Pathfinders Awesome Autumn Adventures
Online Club
The weekly sheets can be used to doodle or Weekly Sheets
add notes during the session or as a review Mushroom Soup Recipe
sheet afterwards.
Go on a nature walk and look for fungi and
mushrooms. They grow everywhere, not just in
woodlands. You could take a sketchbook along
and draw some of the fungi that you find. Take
UK Common Fungi ID Guides
along our handy UK Common Fungi ID Guides
to help you identify what you find. Mushroom Joke Matching Pairs
Explores
Rainy Day? Create your own mushroom Mushroom Bookmarks to Colour
The New bookmarks or do some mindfulness colouring.
Mindful Colouring - Mushroom Stickers
How about having a giggle and play our
Mushroom Joke Matching Pairs game. Life Cycle of a Mushroom
You may want to investigate even
further by exploring the Life Cycle of a
Mushroom resource.
The story from the lesson was adapted and
developed from a range of European folklore
exploring the reasons for the formation of
fairy rings.
Fairy-Themed Stick Puppets
Keeps Suggested activities:
Mushroom Finger Puppets
Stories • Draw or act out your favourite part of the story.
Garden Fairies Colouring
Alive Perhaps you could add an alternative ending?
• Create your own puppet show story using the Dragon Drawing Prompts
Fairy-Themed Stick Puppets and Mushroom
Finger Puppets resources.
• Do some fairy colouring or dragon drawing.
In the lesson, we demonstrated some potato
printing to make your mushroom picture. Why
not have a go yourself? You don’t need to use a
Reuses potato - what else could you use? Nature Wand Craft
The Old or Mushroom Village Holiday Craft
You could make a Mushroom Village Holiday
Craft, complete with gnomes! Why not create a
nature wand for the fairies in our story?
Label the parts of a mushroom.
Parts of a Mushroom Labelling Activity
Even More Have a go at our Mushroom Spores Science
Mushroom Spores Science Experiment
Ideas Experiment.
Fungi Mind Map
Complete a Fungi Mind Map.

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Week 2 - Wonderful Weather

Session Suggested Activities Resource Links
Grab a snack and get ready to watch Week 2 -
YouTube Pathfinders Playlist
Online Wonderful Weather.
Club Pathfinders Awesome Autumn
The weekly sheets can be used to doodle or add notes during
Adventures Weekly Sheets
the session or as a review afterwards.
Get ready to head out into nature - whatever the weather!
Sunny day? Go and explore shadows. Cloudy day? Do some
cloud gazing - can you see any pictures in the clouds? Home Education -
Windy Day? Discover what effects the wind is having Weather Tracker
on nature. When Weather Spinner Activity
You could also start a weather tracker to see how quickly Dress Ups Weather Cards
Explores
the weather can change during the week and see if any
The New patterns emerge. Weather Early Writing Activity

Rainy Day? Have fun with our Dress Ups Weather Cards or Weather-Themed
the When Weather Spinner Activity. You could also enjoy a Mindfulness Colouring
Weather Early Writing Activity. Extreme Weather Word Search
Or, how about doing some Weather-Themed Mindfulness
Colouring or our Extreme Weather Word Search?
The story was inspired by proverbs about historical
observations of the sky, animals and nature and how they were
used to predict the weather.
Keeps Weather Acrostic Poem
Stories Suggested activities:
The Boy and The
Alive • Make up your own proverb about the weather. Rainbow Story
• Create a Weather Acrostic Poem.
• Enjoy the story PowerPoint, ‘The Boy and The Rainbow’.
Create a weather story picture.
• Use a range of scrap materials to make a weather
story picture.
• You could add a person or animal travelling through the Paper Chain Rainbow
Reuses weather. Does the change in weather change what they do in Paper Rainbow Umbrella
The Old your picture story?
Umbrella Silhouette
or
Foam Painting
• Make a Paper Chain Rainbow.
• How about making this Paper Rainbow Umbrella?
• Have a go at some Umbrella Silhouette Foam Painting.
• Learn more about the weather around us, with our The Weather Around Us
PowerPoint activity: The Weather Around Us Rain Cloud in a Jar - Simple
Even • Try the Rain Cloud in a Jar activity. Science Experiment
More • Find out more about thunderstorms with the All About All About Thunderstorms
Ideas Thunderstorms Activity Pack. Activity Pack
• Use the activity sheet Describing the Weather to describe Describing the
today’s weather. Weather Activity

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Week 3 - Folktales and Forests

Session Suggested Activities Resource Links
Have a go at making some hedgehog biscuits or grab your YouTube Pathfinders Playlist
favourite snack and get ready to watch Week 3 - Folktales
Online and Forests Pathfinders Awesome Autumn
Club Adventures Weekly Sheets
The weekly sheets can be used to doodle or add notes
during the session or as a review afterwards. Hedgehog Biscuits Recipe

On your nature walk this week, explore using your

senses. Look out for moss and lichen and make some
observations on their appearance and texture. Rocks and
tree bark are a good place to look for these. You could
sketch those that you find and record details of where
you found them. Take a look at the Mosses, Lichens and
Fungi Exploration Pack, which includes identification Mosses, Lichens and Fungi
checklists and fact files for recording your finds - perfect Exploration Pack
Explores to take along with you on your nature walk. Forest School Games for Calm
The New In the Forest School Games for Calm pack there are some
Read, Explore, Do... November
great ideas to try on your nature walk!
Woodland and Forest Book List
Rainy Day? The Read, Explore, Do November activity has
some fun activities designed for this time of year.
or
Take a trip to your local library. We’ve included a
Woodland and Forest Book List.
The story in this week’s live lesson was adapted from
German folktales derived from the Black Forest.
Suggested activities:
Keeps • Draw or write about your favourite part of the folktale. Describe a Forest Writing Activity
Stories • Describe a forest with our Describe a Forest Writing Folktales Information PowerPoint
Alive Activity.
• Take a look through the Folktales Information
PowerPoint and discover more about the history of
folktales.
Create your own forest collage using either natural
materials or scrap materials from around the house.
Reuses Natural Materials Winter Craft
or
The Old Activities
• Explore some of the other natural crafts in this Natural
Minerals Winter Craft Activities pack.

• Find out more about lichen, with this Lichen PowerPoint. Lichen PowerPoint
• Have fun with our Home Ed resource, Sticks and Stones Sticks and Stones Challenge Cards
Even
Challenge Cards.
More Enchanted Forest Colouring Sheets
• Have a go at the Enchanted Forest Colouring Sheets.
Ideas
• Fancy a sing song? Get the whole family involved with Forest and Woodland Songs
these Forest and Woodland Songs and Rhymes. and Rhymes

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Week 4 - Brilliant Birds

Session Suggested Activities Resource Links

Grab a snack (and maybe leave some nuts or seeds

outside for the birds too!) and get ready to watch YouTube Pathfinders Playlist
Online Club Week 4 - Brilliant Birds Pathfinders Awesome Autumn
The weekly sheets can be used to doodle or add Adventures Weekly Sheets
notes during the session or as a review afterwards.

Go on a nature walk and see if you can spot any

birds. You may be able to hear some birds, even
if you can’t see them. Each type of bird makes a
different sound. How many different bird calls can
you hear? Discuss the similarities and differences Garden Birds Sighting Checklist
between the birds you can see and hear.
Explores Garden Birds Word Search
Leaving a handful of nuts or seeds is a great way to
The New attract birds. Remember to stay as still and quiet as Draw the Birds - Art Activity Pack
you can and hopefully some will stop by to say hello! Enkl Origami Bird
Rainy Day? Complete the Garden Birds Word Search
or draw some birds using this Draw the Birds Art
Activity Pack. You could even have a go at making
your own origami birds!
The story this week was inspired by myths and
superstitions from around the world concerning birds.
Suggested activities:
Keeps The Messy Magpie PowerPoint Story
Stories • Discuss these myths and superstitions with
members of your family. Do you believe in Birds Acrostic Poem
Alive
any of them?
• Read ‘The Messy Magpie’ story.
• Create an acrostic poem about birds
In the lesson this week, we made the
Autumn Leaf Owl Craft. Have a go at this yourself!
Autumn Leaf Owl Craft
or
2D Shape Birds Cutting Skills
Reuses • Do some 2D Shape Birds Cutting Skills activity Worksheets
The Old sheets to create your own bird pictures.
Paper Plate Bird Craft
• Make a Paper Plate Bird Craft.
British Garden Birds Colouring Sheets
• Complete some British Garden Birds
Colouring Sheets.
• Make a garden Cardboard Tube Bird Feeder. Cardboard Tube Bird Feeder Craft
Here’s a couple to choose from in our Instructions
DIY Garden Bird Feeders Pack. DIY Garden Bird Feeders Pack
Even More • Complete a Birds in Your Garden Differentiated
Reading Comprehension. Birds in Your Garden Differentiated
Ideas Reading Comprehension
• Label the parts of a Robin.
• Explore more about the needs of birds with our Parts of a Robin Labelling Activity
The Needs of Birds PowerPoint. The Needs of Birds PowerPoint

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Week 5 - Campfire Tales

Session Suggested Activities Resource Links
It’s time to grab a snack (maybe you could
get some inspiration from the Campfire
Recipes resource) and get ready to watch YouTube Pathfinders Playlist
a special episode of Pathfinders Week 5 - Pathfinders Awesome Autumn Adventures
Online Club Campfire Tales.
Weekly Sheets
The weekly sheets can be used to doodle or Campfire Recipes
add notes during the session or as a review
afterwards.
Spend time outdoors this week and maybe
have an end of autumn picnic, barbecue or
campfire. Bake some ginger biscuits to take on
your picnic or get adventurous and make some
Campfire Pancakes
campfire pancakes.
Ginger Biscuit Recipe
Take along some storytelling activities or take
Explores inspiration from the things you find in nature to Make a Storytelling Prompt Frame
The New create your own stories.
Campfire Sun Catcher
Rainy Day? Get baking in the kitchen and have
Campfire Colouring Sheet
an indoor picnic! Use our Make a Storytelling
Prompt Frame for some storytelling inspiration. Creative Storytelling Cube Game
Make a Campfire Sun Catcher or complete the
Campfire Colouring Sheet. You could even try
out this Creative Storytelling Cube Game.
The story this week was inspired by an old
folktale, ‘The Apple Dumpling’.
Suggested activities:
Keeps Folktales of Britain and Ireland
Stories • Draw or retell some or all of the story.
• Take a look through some more Folktales of Storytelling Stick Puppets
Alive
Britain and Ireland.
• Create your own folktale and bring it to life
using the Storytelling Stick Puppets.
Create your own version of the campfire craft in
the live lesson. Use a range of scrap materials
with different colours and textures. What will be
Reuses cooking on your campfire? Handprint Campfire Craft
The Old or Campfire Lantern
• Get messy and create a Handprint Campfire.
• Make a Campfire Lantern.
• Create an autumn scrapbook to add all your
autumn memories to. Autumn Scrapbooking Kit
Even More • Take a look at our Outdoor Fun for Older
Outdoor Fun for Older Children
Ideas Children pack. There are so many great
activities to try. Family Around Campfire Colouring
• Colour in the campfire colouring sheet.

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Week 6 - Winter Solstice Celebration

Session Suggested Activities Resource Links
Grab a snack (you could have a go at making this
Snowman Pop Recipe) and get ready to watch YouTube Pathfinders Playlist
Week 6 - Winter Solstice Celebration Pathfinders Awesome Autumn
Online Club
The weekly sheets can be used to doodle or Adventures Weekly Sheets
add notes during the session or as a review Snowman Pop Recipe
afterwards.
Go on a nature walk. What plants can you spot at
this time of year? Perhaps you could sketch your
favourites. Try the Winter Maths Challenge Cards. Autumn and Winter Plants to Spot
Can you complete them all?
Winter Maths Challenge Cards
Talk about what you can see, hear, smell and feel.
Explores You could even use our Our Winter Nature Walk Our Winter Nature Walk Writing Frame
The New Writing Frame to summarise and organise your Winter Window Display
thoughts.
Winter Solstice Word Search
Rainy Day? Create a Winter Window Display,
do a Winter Solstice Word Search or get the Winter Wonderland Board Game
family together to play the Winter Wonderland
Board Game.
The story this week was inspired by myths and
cultural legends surrounding the winter solstice.
Suggested activities:
Keeps • Which myth or legend about solstice do you like
Yule: A Pagan Winter Festival
Stories best? Why not retell it in your own way or draw a
picture to show what people believed. Winter Solstice News Story
Alive
• Find out more about Yule using the Pagan
celebration which marks the winter solstice.
• Take a look at the news story from the Twinkl
Newsroom, all about the winter solstice.
Create your own version of the crafts in the live
lesson. We showed you two this week; winter ice
lanterns and a snowflake chain.
Reuses
or Winter Nature Arts and Crafts
The Old
• Use nature to create fantastic art work. Take a
look at the ideas in the Winter Nature Arts and
Crafts pack.
• Learn more about the winter solstice with our
Winter Solstice PowerPoint.
Winter Solstice PowerPoint
• Celebrate Yule in style with our Wheel of the
Year: Yule pack. Wheel of the Year - Yule
Even More
• Take a look at this Winter Solstice Differentiated Winter Solstice Reading Comprehension
Ideas
Reading Comprehension.
Winter Clothes Mindfulness
• Complete some mindfulness colouring Colouring Sheets
with these Winter Clothes Mindfulness
Colouring Sheets.

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