- Lots of bush walks!
- Rope swings
- Swimming in the stream
- Water sliding on our world famous water slide!
- Bring some sacks or boxes to slide and roll down grassy hills.
- Float down the stream on tubes which are usually available at the swimming hole
- Visiting the glo-worms at night below Puriri Hut (they don’t like being touched, also please turn torches off and keep voices down)
- See if you can pat our goat Bella, or the chickens and find where on the farm the Highland cattle are
- You can ride your own horse on the property and through to our neighbours, make sure you sign in and out at the boundary, and stick to marked trails
- Spotting Native birds, Tui, North island robin, Wood pigeon, bellbird, fantail, Kaka, grey heron, wax eye, grey warbler, hawks, paradise ducks, moreporks and others.
- Spotting Tuna (eels) and Koura (freshwater crayfish). you can try shining a light into the creek at night, or tempting them with sausage on a stick
- Cooking on the campfire
- Finding the hollow tree
- Exploring in the creek above the Redwood Hut pool to the Puriri hut bush swing– wearing shoes is helpful
- Building huts
- Reading books
- Scavenger hunts
- Treasure hunts
- Gathering walnuts
- Berry picking
- Imagining
- Riding bikes
- Going on ‘expeditions’
- Set up a burma trail
- Walking to the pond to feed the ducks and chickens
- Feeding pigs
- Climbing to the top of a hill
