After 12pm, Kids, Nature

A day of informative and fun conservation activities with the Countryside Rangers celebrating the biodiversity of the local nature reserve.

Take a walk, follow the clues and hopefully you'll end up at the secret badger sett! Phone for exact meeting times. Booking is essential.

Learn about why Glasgow is known as River City, plus learn a bit more about the creatures that call its various waterways home.

See what nature has to offer after dark. Please dress for the weather and wear sturdy footwear. Bring a torch if you have one.

Don your wellies and have a poke around in the depths of Castle Fraser's ponds. Suitable for children aged 5–12 and their families. Booking is essential.

Join Castle Kennedy Garden Ranger for this month’s Animal Safari theme. Explore the Gardens, look for mammal tracks, learn to identify footprints and other trails and discover who lives alongside the plants and flowers in the Gardens and take part in arts and crafts. Meet at Castle Kennedy ruins and bring outdoor clothing.

Forage for art and craft material from the area around the park. Booking is essential.

Hunt for the hidden treasure using clue-solving skills. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Bat watching with the experts and their handy bat detectors.

Activities for the whole family to enjoy with everything from archaeological digs to bat walks.

Gloves and litter pickers are provided for this clean-up which is happening all over Scotland's shores.

A day of wildlife fun and insect activities for all the family.

Help scientists identify, count up and record all the animals on their checklist.

Spend the day building a den and then – if you like – cook dinner on the campfire and spend the night in your construction. Booking is essential.

Learn to live off the land, build a shelter, make fire and forage for food. Please wear appropriate clothing. Children must be accompanied. Booking is essential.

Learn how to light fires and other basic survival and camping skills.

Learn more about creepy crawlies on this bug spotting bonanza for National Insect Week.

Family crafting event as part of the 'National Campaign for Drawing'.

Take a walk to discover the animals that come out by night. Children must be accompanied. Booking is essential.

Get imaginative and see if you can build a secret den using only what you can find around about you in the woods. Booking is essential.

They may have died out 66 million years ago but see if you can find tracks and traces of our dinosaur forebears in the woodland.

Hover around the pond and see what you can find.

Dragonflies and damselflies are some of our most beautiful and fascinating insects, and they can be observed at close quarters on guided walk to Coire Loch. Wellies and a midgie hood are required.

Join the experts to help to identify as many plant and animal species as possible in one day.