We had a brilliant morning playing at Wilderness Wood in Hadlow Down yesterday. As well as being a beautiful, family owned and run woodland, there is lots to do including organised activities and adventure playgrounds and a cafe selling delicious homemade cakes and other food.
For the twins, the playground by the cafe was the best bit with a mud kitchen, pirate decks and a tyre swing (which they're still a bit young for but Priya did a great job of holding on!) There are picnic tables outside, beautifully decorated with wild posies and there's an outdoor kitchen with wood fired pizza oven.
Kalyan wanted to push Priya on the tyre but didn't quite get the concept of it swinging back towards him!
After a play next to the cafe, it was time to head off and explore. We found muddy puddles, a wigwam, logs (which K tried to lift before giving up and trying a piece of bark), lots of trees and birds.
The adventure playground area was quite small with just a zip line and a slide but we all had fun!
And then we set off on another trail through the Christmas Tree field and down, finding bugs, brambles, butterflies and sticks along the way...
Before heading back up to the cafe for cake!
Mum and I had the caramel cake and Nik, Dad and the twins all had the orange cake. Both were moist and delicious and extremely generous slices. For 5 pieces of cake and 4 coffees it cost £23. For entry to the woods you just "pay what you feel" to help maintain the area.
Afterwards, Nik had to go to work so he and Dad left and Mum and I took the twins for another little walk in search of the fairy garden we heard about. We never found it (the map could be better!) but enjoyed another trail exploring through the woods.
It was a great morning out and we will definitely be returning! We could easily spend a whole day there if the twins didn't get tired and need a nap. I'd like to go for lunch next time and sample some more of their yummy food!
They run lots of workshops and activities for older children too with lots going on in the holidays and monthly BBQs. You can also camp there or just hire a space for a BBQ yourself. They do weddings and have a Yurt with fire pits and there's also a Forest School for little ones (age 2.5+).
See the Wilderness Woods website for more details and check out the Wilderness Cafe website for their menu and info too.
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Kalyan wanted to push Priya on the tyre but didn't quite get the concept of it swinging back towards him!
After a play next to the cafe, it was time to head off and explore. We found muddy puddles, a wigwam, logs (which K tried to lift before giving up and trying a piece of bark), lots of trees and birds.
The adventure playground area was quite small with just a zip line and a slide but we all had fun!
And then we set off on another trail through the Christmas Tree field and down, finding bugs, brambles, butterflies and sticks along the way...
Before heading back up to the cafe for cake!
Mum and I had the caramel cake and Nik, Dad and the twins all had the orange cake. Both were moist and delicious and extremely generous slices. For 5 pieces of cake and 4 coffees it cost £23. For entry to the woods you just "pay what you feel" to help maintain the area.
Afterwards, Nik had to go to work so he and Dad left and Mum and I took the twins for another little walk in search of the fairy garden we heard about. We never found it (the map could be better!) but enjoyed another trail exploring through the woods.
It was a great morning out and we will definitely be returning! We could easily spend a whole day there if the twins didn't get tired and need a nap. I'd like to go for lunch next time and sample some more of their yummy food!
They run lots of workshops and activities for older children too with lots going on in the holidays and monthly BBQs. You can also camp there or just hire a space for a BBQ yourself. They do weddings and have a Yurt with fire pits and there's also a Forest School for little ones (age 2.5+).
See the Wilderness Woods website for more details and check out the Wilderness Cafe website for their menu and info too.
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