Super Roots

⚘ Outdoor Kids C.I.C. ⚘

Combining wild, inclusive

& DIY spirit of Adventure Play

with the Forest School love

for all things wild!

Super Roots exists to create more opportunities for children to use tools, swing high, cook on a fire & fuel their imagination in nature

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Today 1-3pm has been MOVED to WELSHMILL WOODS behi

Today 1-3pm has been MOVED to WELSHMILL WOODS behind the canal club/ train line.... for better shelter 🌿🌿🌿
🥎 We'll still bring raft making + games
🔥 but means we can also bring the fire lighting kit , make bigger swings
🪜lash up climbing ladders
🧚🏼‍♂️🚪🧚🏾‍♀️ explore Frome Town Council's fairy door tree trail

Posted @withregram • @edventurefrome ☀️ Summ

Posted @withregram • @edventurefrome ☀️ Summer play in Frome is just warming up ☀️

Mark your calendars for National Play Day Wednesday 2 August! 🎉 @super_roots_ok, who led our play short course, will be hosting a fun-filled event at Rodden Meadow. Pack a picnic and join them from 1 to 3 pm for exciting activities and play!

The enthusiastic group that came together at the play short course is also now looking at establishing a Frome Play Association – a registered organisation that could bring more play for all ages to our town! 🤹‍♀️

Frome Town Council is on board, what about you?

Let us know, and we'll include you in the conversation. 💬

Did you know there at 16 types of play? These illustrations of the 16 different types of play were drawn by the talented @secretworker_illustrations during our play short course

🔥🔥MOVED! To Welshmill Woods behind canal clu

🔥🔥MOVED! To Welshmill Woods behind canal club/ train line🌿🌿

Play Day picnic tomorrow on beautiful Rodden Meadow!

1-3pm by the 1 big tree, willow tunnel and easy access to the river for a splash about..

🌿 Find us from the river path by the High Street or Rodden road

We'll bring tractor inner tubes, ropes to make swings, frisbees, balls and stick crafts . Bring a picnic + any games ⚽️🥎 ...plus maybe wellies and a brolly!

FREE, ALL AGES WELCOME ❤️✨️

🐸🐸🐸 if the weather turns ⚡️⛈️ we will decamp to Welshmill woods where there's more shelter!! ...and Frome Town Council new fairy doors ! 🌿💚🐸

For @frometowncouncil

@discoverfrome

#playday #playdayfrome #outdoorkids #outdoorplay #wildsummer

@edventurefrome

✨️💜✨️💚✨️ this Sunday 23 July ! ✨️💚✨️💜✨️
@purple_elephant_frome 's FREE Children's Festival!
10 - 4
In Welshmill park, woods, inside @cheesegrainfrome and on other side of the river

So looking forward to it - LOADS going on for teens to tots! Love that there's a teen tent + activities organised by young people, from mural painting to cocktails...

♻️ 🌱🤟 all with a climate change theme ♻️🌿

We'll be in Welshmill park with @notimetowastearts huge & beautiful Gusita the Turtle 🐢
🐟🐙making sea creature puppets out of recycling . .highlighting the importance of #plasticfreejuly and reducing our use of plastic!

See you there! ❤️🥳

💚 In 2019 Frome Town Council declared a climate

💚 In 2019 Frome Town Council declared a climate emergency and held public events to create a town climate action plan.

Going along this Wednesday as part of @frome_families_for_the_future to find out more about

- how Frome is doing as a community
- the projects that are already happening
- how to accelerate progress towards becoming a greener, healthier and more resilient town.

WEDNESDAY 19 JULY . Cheese & Grain

"Free light, vegan supper included"

@frometowncouncil @ghfuturefrome @fromeseedlibrary @sharefrome frome.medical.practice @communityfridgefrome

🦋💚🦋 #bigbutterflycount @savebutterflies

🦋💚🦋 #bigbutterflycount @savebutterflies

❣️Garden Tiger moth perched on woodchip in the Quarry ❣️

🤎🌿 Meadow brown butterflies fluttering out all over from the grasses in @healrewilding land - public footpath.
and butterflies at the Quarry ❤️🤎🧡🤍

BIG BUTTERFLY COUNT 2023 ->> see linktree in Bio

Music: Ruby Amanfu, Summer 🌦🌻🌦
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#bigbutterflycount #moths #butterflies
#getkidsoutside #citizenscience #naturespotting #enwc #exploringnaturewithchildren #lovemoths

🌻🌱🦋🐛🌱💭🌱🦋🐛🌱🐝 Sit,

🌻🌱🦋🐛🌱💭🌱🦋🐛🌱🐝
Sit, watch and chill like a scientist.... #bigbutterflycount (See linktree in bio👆 )

14 JULY - 6 AUG 2023
Butterfly Conservation is calling on people across the UK to take part in this year’s Big Butterfly Count to help scientists understand the impact of climate change on our most-loved butterflies.

Last year’s record temperatures, heatwave and drought caused some of the plants that caterpillars feed on to wither and die. To help scientists discover what the ongoing impact of this extreme weather has been, the public are being asked to spend 15 minutes in any sunny spot and record the number and type of butterflies they see.

Butterflies are indicators of a healthy natural environment - with half of Britain’s butterfly species already threatened or near threatened with extinction, it’s never been more important to understand how our insects are responding to the changing climate and to take action to protect them.

Dr Zoë Randle, Senior Surveys Officer at Butterfly Conservation explains:

“This is a vital year for the Big Butterfly Count. We know that the previous extreme summer droughts in 1976 and 1995 took a heavy toll on butterflies and numbers crashed the following year, taking almost a decade to recover.

Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count is the largest citizen-science project of its kind and is a positive way that everyone can help. As well as contributing to important scientific data collection, taking part in the Count is a great way to enjoy time outdoors, connect with nature and have fun.

Text Credit: @savebutterflies
https://butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/the-2023-big-butterfly-count-has-begun

#bigbutterflycount #butterflies #moths #outdoorkids #naturespotting #exploringnaturewithchildren #enwc #naturalhealthservice

☘️ plaiting clover flowers + their long stems

☘️ plaiting clover flowers + their long stems in a field full 🍀

never plaited flower chains before! always twisted or classic split-chain style but it's so meditative 💚... somehow more satisfying than making a chain as it's stronger.. & slower. Kudos to almost 10 yr old (boy) for doing a chain in about 4 seconds flat! 🌪🤟

Others can search for the ever elusive 4 leafs while I'll just sit and plait flowers! see my zoned out face of concentration! 🤣

As you go, just add in another stem before one strand gets too short
...for a chain, crown, bracelet or just for the fun of it

🔗 🌿 🌼 🔗🌿 🌼🔗 🌿 🌼 🔗🌿 🌼 🔗🌿 🌼 🌿

#moremaking #clover #cloverchain #outdoorkids #makewithyourhands #natureplay #enwc

Beginnings of more crafty workshops coming to the

Beginnings of more crafty workshops coming to the Quarry with one of our absolute favourites @felicityjonesmetal
who's bringing their @notimetowastearts Turtle for the @purple_elephant_frome Children's Festival 🐢💚🐢💚🐢💚🐢💚🐢

From Playwork roots, she's a brilliant + creative blacksmith & welder 🛠 alongside being a massive plant mama via @tm_hackney 💚

Metal Workshops for Child / young person + their adult

MONDAY 24 JULY

10-12pm or 1-3pm

£25

Location: Quarry, Witham Friary BA11 5HD

Over 8yrs - to help with focus round tools!

🔗 Booking link in Bio 👆 ->> via www.Ticketpass.org
https://tktp.as/EEPDAB

🤩 @ticketpasshq Ethical Ticketing Platform 💚
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@thefromelist @somerset_.life @discoverfrome

#fromefamilies #fromekids #Frome #whatsoninsomerset #fromefind #withamfriary #somersetkids #fromekidsclubs #summerholidayfrome #fromefamilies #schoolsout #fromedaysoutforkids #fromedrama #somersetdrama #somersetfamilies #outdoorkids #outdoorplay #fromeforestschool #kidsinfrome #kidsactivitiesfrome #ba11 #ba11forkids #fromefind

✨️🛸 A restricted number of the public have

✨️🛸 A restricted number of the public have been given a pass to visit Cloud Nine 🪐, a recently formed micro-planet with similar features to Earth. A contract is signed.
🪐 But on arrival, they do not find the kind of paradise they had hoped for
🛠 Thoughts turn to escape but an unseen hand has other plans . . . . . .
🌿 An intriguing, problem solving conundrum within a rewilded quarry

Drama co-creation:
🔥 Tuesday 29th August
💚 Wednesday 30th August
10 – 3PM

AGES 13 – 18

£40 PER CHILD for both days (sibling discounts £35 per sibling)

Low income discounts available
--->>>> email info@dramakarma.co.uk.

@somerset_.life @discoverfrome @thefromelist

#fromekids #fromekidsclubs #summerholidayfrome #fromefamilies #fromedaysoutforkids #fromedrama #somersetdrama #somersetfamilies #outdoorkids #outdoorplay #fromeforestschool #whatsoninsomerset #kidsinfrome #kidsactivitiesfrome #ba11 #ba11forkids #fromefind

✨️ DramaKarma dates at The Quarry ⚡️ 🌿

✨️ DramaKarma dates at The Quarry ⚡️

🌿 Mon 31 July/ Tues 1 Aug 7-11 yrs 🔥

🏹 Tues 29/ Weds 30 Aug 13yrs + 🧭

Playful, collaborative sessions to fire up children's imagination within a hidden, rewilded quarry, full of natural magic.

🚩BOOKING via www.dramakarma.co.uk 🌿

#frome #fromekids #summerholidayfrome #somersetkids #somersetdrama #fromefamilies #outdoorkids #outdoorplay #imaginativeplay #fromelist #fromefind

🌿🏹 The Intruders 🏹🌿 (FULLY BOOKED) A

🌿🏹 The Intruders 🏹🌿 (FULLY BOOKED)

A DISTURBANCE IN THE ANCIENT QUARRY. BUT THE WOODLAND IS PROTECTED BY A HIDDEN FORCE.
😱WAKING IT UP WOULD SPELL DANGER FOR ALL. BUT THERE MAY BE NO CHOICE….
💪🏽💪🏾🗯💚🦊

🏹 ✨️DramaKarma are back at the Quarry, 31 July/ 1 Aug;
2 days of Playful, collaborative sessions to fire the imagination within a hidden, rewilded quarry, full of natural magic.

- we had a lot fun last time! 🔥- here's a few photos of the last sessions

We'll be creating a drama together, with costumes + sets for AGES 7 – 13

10 – 3PM
Monday 31 JULY
Tuesday 1 AUGUST

🚩 Location; Super Roots (rewilded) Quarry.
Witham Friary, BA11 5HD

£40 PER CHILD for both days (sibling discounts at £35 per sibling)
⚡️ BOOKING VIA www.dramakarma.co.uk.

*** low income discounts available – please ask by emailing info@dramakarma.co.uk.

@somerset_.life @discoverfrome @thefromelist

#fromekids #fromekidsclubs #summerholidayfrome #fromefamilies #fromedaysoutforkids #fromedrama #somersetdrama #somersetfamilies #outdoorkids #outdoorplay #fromeforestschool #whatsoninsomerset #kidsinfrome #kidsactivitiesfrome #ba11 #ba11forkids #fromefind

🏹👆 Did you know Frome Town Council has a Pla

🏹👆 Did you know Frome Town Council has a Play Strategy in 2021/2?
🌿 it's so brilliant to see a council
- valuing Play + playfulness
- recognising it is important for both children AND adults
- seeing that Playful communities can contribute to building social cohesion, improving health and wellbeing, and the environment

👐 Join us, @frometowncouncil & @edventurefrome this Wednesday with fellow play enthusiasts to learn about the different forms of play, discuss how we can develop play in Frome, be inspired by other playful communities and get planning 💪🏽🐸🛠

🔥 We want to hear from YOU Share your own experiences and bring your ideas and challenges for input and feedback from the group.

✨️💦 The day is run by Edventure Frome, with support from Somerset forest school and adventure play specialists, Super Roots, Frome Town Council, Somerset County Council and Somerset Skills and Learning.

🌱 It combines expertise from people who have set up play ventures, people who have experience of incubating start-ups, and yourself and fellow participants. Attendees can also benefit from 1-to-1 coaching and advice.

🚩 This event is free & funded for residents of the county of Somerset
– there is a £5.00 booking fee. If this is a barrier to attending the workshop, please use the code TEAM

👉🏾https://edventurefrome.org/short-courses/booking-information

👉🏾https://a-playful-town-edventure-frome.eventbrite.co.uk/

Painted sign: @play_groundnyc
Mas’ha mural wall painting, West Bank, Palestine Photo by Dalit Baum

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#playfulfrome #frome #fromefamilies #somerset #fromefamiliesforfuture #adventureplay #fromeworkshop #somersetskills #cultureofplay #playforall #whatisplay #fromekids #fromeplay #fromeplaystrategy #playfulcommunities #fightforplay #valueofplay

☀️☀️☀️☀️ sunny days perfect for ma

☀️☀️☀️☀️ sunny days perfect for making art with shadows

🎨🖌✏️🖍

❤️🌱🌿 photo from Hackney Marshes 💚
photo credit ✨️✨️✨️✨️@igorandme ✨️✨️✨️✨️
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#moreart #artislife

Mucking about in the river Brue recently, learning

Mucking about in the river Brue recently, learning about https://www.riverflies.org/ and citizen science monitoring to support the health of our rivers 💦🌊💙

Organised by @forestofselwood + @bruecr3w
🏞 Thank you to them all and Patricia + R of Cooks Farm - loads of interesting rewilding happening there over 40 acres including a lovely small educational centre, very inspiring

🐟 Forest of Selwood 👆 + Friends of the River Frome https://friendsoftheriverfrome.co.uk/ are always looking for people to take on more spots along the River Frome
-->> very child friendly to splash about (with a group!) collecting a bucketful or two to pore over.
We saw bullfish, freshwater river coral (!), damselflies breeding, shrimp, caddisfly lavae - one hatched out of its case while we were identifying, whirling beetles, stonefly, mayfly...

Then I watched @rivercide_live (xr frome) at The Good Heart cafe ❤️ in Frome 😱 it is shocking that our rivers are in such a bad state, countrywide!!
We thought the River Lea was bad due to its industrial history and location through London
⚠️ But the sewage + agricultural pollution/ lack of government funded conservation or proper monitoring is happening everywhere

🚨 Highly recommend watching @rivercide_live = 1 hour documentary. Let's all get involved so we can swim safely in our rivers again 💙💦🐟🌱

🚩 @frome_families_for_the_future

Rivercide documentary presented by @georgemonbiot
Directed by @franny_armstrong - Spanner Films
Live music by @therealcharlottechurch
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#rivercide #exploringnaturewithchildren @envagency #citizenscience

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