Kendal Mini Stompers

06/08/2025

Fancy joining us this Friday at Warton Crag for some Family woodland fun? Ideal for all ages, no need to book. Bring a picnic & stay as long as you like!

🌳 Woodland Fun Day 🌳
with Stomping Ground
at Warton Crag
8th August 2025
11am - 3pm
FREE event
No need to book, just turn up
Children must be supervised by a responsible adult
For more info: https://www.arnside-silverdale.org.uk/events/woodland-fun-day-8th-august-2025

23/06/2025

Our wettest session for a long time! We'd planned a Summer Solstice session but the weather Gods had different plans We embraced the rain in all its glory, got the pipes and jugs out, splashed in puddles, made mud pies and collected water from the tarps. We got cosy by the fire and filled our bellies with waffles. Heavy rain has sooooo much play value!

14/06/2025

We’re all set up in the community garden with a very cosy, sheltered space to play! Get your waterproofs on and come on down! 💚

04/06/2025

We’re excited to be delivering our Stomping Ground speciality- wild woodland play at Appleby Rd Community Garden’s open day.

Sat 14th June, 10am-3pm
Appleby Rd Community Garden, Kendal

Come along and join us! Free for all the family.
🙌🏼💚🌳

14/05/2025

Come down and join us for a free, family woodland fun day! 🙌🏼💚🌳
Fri 30th May, 11-3
Dobshall Woods, Arnside

Woodland Fun Day
30th May 2025
11am - 3pm
Dobshall Wood, Arnside
FREE Event
No need to book - just turn up

02/04/2025

The weather Gods are blessing us in Cumbria this week! We had a little nod to Easter at Mini Stompers with hot cross buns on the campfire, egg rolling down the pipes, bunny scavenger hunt and some egg-themed crafting.
Feeling the warmth of the sun on our faces and noticing all the new growth; buds on the trees and shoots appearing on the woodland floor fills us with excitement for what's just round the corner........

We're back in the woods for more Mini Stomper action on Tuesday 22nd April.

19/03/2025

Pesto production in the woods!

19/03/2025

A glorious day in the woods yesterday. We listened to a story about Mother buzzard bringing the light and enjoyed feeling the warmth of the sun on our faces! The woodland floor is carpeted in wild garlic so we made the most of it and feasted on wild garlic pesto pasta on the fire! Lots of mud painting, teddy zip lining, bouncing on the slackline, mud kitchen concocting and hammock swinging.

06/03/2025

Pancake Day in the woods! At Mini Stompers, we love to come together as a community around the fire circle. It's a place to share food, to listen to stories, to chill out, to connect with others and to reflect.
This week we smashed out our favourite banana pancakes, got creative with the mud painting, made our own natural paintbrushes, swung in the hammocks, played with pulleys, concocted in the mud kitchen and played with the teddy zip line.

04/03/2025

Mother Nature, over the last 300,000 years, has perfected the most efficient and beautiful way to learn……..PLAY! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

27/02/2025

At Stomping Ground we love to geek out about PLAY!
Play is innate; a natural urge to educate ourselves. Play builds brains and allows our children to practise all the skills they need for life: physical literacy, communication, resilience, creativity, social skills & executive functioning.........
We love watching the experts doing what they do best in the woods & encourage the adults to follow their children's lead, observing what they're interested in and how they like to play.

11/02/2025

It’s a cold one out there this morning with the NE wind so be sure to layer up and wrap up warm. We’ll bring warm snacks, drinks and try to get lots of movement into the session.
We understand if folk need to leave earlier today, we’re all about looking after ourselves and each other!

See you soon 💚