Activités "nature environnement" – Anne-Claire Dastugue

Experience the joy of the outdoors together,
Reconnect with your senses and creativity – with your head, heart and hands,
Exploring possibilities towards a more sustainable future.

1) Nature walks: Discovering the living world all around us.
Let’s meet around Cordes to explore its secret and wild surroundings: a moment in parentheses, to reconnect with nature.
– The landscape and its history,
– Plants and their uses.
– Animals and their tracks.
– Local legends linked to this abundant environment.
– Games, harvests, and crafts with nature…
And we, humans, in connection with what surrounds us,
on the lookout, eyes on the alert, all our senses alert…

2) Truant activities
– Clay Workshop: “landscapes and characters in freedom”.
– Green music: making natural and recycled instruments.
– Workshop with huts, sticks and pieces of string.
– Discovery outings of natural spaces around Cordes and surrounding areas
– Treasure hunt on the environment and local wildlife
– “All our senses awakened” workshops: touch, smell, taste, listen to nature…
– Discovery of wild plants, creation of herbariums.
– “Cui-cui the little birds”: recognition of birds and their songs, making nests.
– “It buzzes and it flutters”: insects and flowers cooperate!
– “Our friends the trees” discovery of the tree, games and creations.
– Welcoming biodiversity: making nest boxes for solitary bees, feeders, insect hotels, hedgehog shelters, etc.
– Animal tracks: brilliant ideas, footprints and signs of presence.
– “Nature in the city” walk: the wild life of our streets and gardens.
– “Let’s take a walk in the woods”: Fun outings on the paths.
– Farm visits: “Where does what we eat come from?”
– Taste and food education workshops: Food Fresco, “Fabulous Legumes”, anti-waste cooking, fun tastings, etc.
– Living wicker and small basketwork.
– Manufacturing of recycled paper: raising awareness of waste and the circular economy.
– Household products and homemade cosmetics to make yourself, tawashis, beewraps…
– Composting Workshop: “Our waste: gold for the earth!”
– “A natural and recycled Christmas” workshop.
– Egg hunt and nature rally.
– Educational vegetable garden, shared gardens, tree planting, spring sowing.
– Plant Swap.
– Forest garden projects.

3) Workshops for cultural venues, media libraries, museums
– “Nature inspires artists”.
The place of nature in different art forms: Music, poetry, visual arts.
+ practical workshop on writing/plant painting
– “Shadow on the soft grass”: Around Haikus
Nature in poetry, discovering short forms from Japan.
+ Writing workshop
– “An explosion of colors”: Nature and painting
History of nature in painting
+ Practical workshop on DIY plant paintings
– “Traveling Seeds”: The genius of plants
Discovery of plant dissemination strategies
+ Making seed bombs or seeded paper
– “Nature and Us” Philosophy Snack: Readings, fables and discussions
A time to ask questions and exchange ideas on our relationship with nature + A taste of nature to share


Cycles to be composed according to the seasons, audiences and places envisaged
The sessions are punctuated by the alternation of naturalistic contributions, appeals to the imagination and concrete practice, always based on the principles of active pedagogy.

Approaches used:
– Raising awareness of environmental issues and sustainable development: discovery of nature and its cycles, protection of biodiversity, composting, waste, etc.
– Sensitive and creative approach: sensory games, natural plastic arts, truant music, writing workshops, readings, etc.
– Learn to do it yourself: small DIY projects, natural gardening, zero waste, recycling, etc.
– Themed walks and outings: local flora and fauna, storytelling or writing walks, landscape reading, natural and cultural heritage, links with the rural world, etc.
– Events and Festivals: AlimenTerre Festival, Nature Festival, Plant Swap…


But also: project coordination, support for structures and professionals

– Waste reduction projects, anti-food waste, composting
– Biodiversity zones, educational gardens, seed libraries
– Organization of festivals and awareness events

– Support for eco-responsible approaches and connections to living things
In schools, early childhood, medical-social, nursing homes, businesses and communities

– Family projects and parenting support
In connection with Social Centers, Social Living Spaces, CAF, etc.

– École du Dehors / “Our school, let’s do it together”
Workshops and regular use of a natural space close to the classroom

– Educational land areas
Educational program of the French Office for Biodiversity

– Eco-Delegate Programs
National Education Program in middle and high schools

– “Food Solidarity” projects, fight against food insecurity
Territorial Food Project and Food Aid Associations

Many tailor-made projects can be imagined, depending on the objectives and specificities of each structure and its environment.

7 years for general public packages
3 years for children's formulas

Depending on the duration and formula of the walks and workshops offered.
Adult: between 10 and 20€
Child: between 8 and 15 €