With over 400 stickers, scenes from the book to recreate, colouring sheets, mazes, puzzles and more, this sticker and activity book will keep kids entertained for hours. The forest is approx 23 miles from bracknell, 28 miles from reading and 29 miles from windsor. I feel excited when he brings me a book and then we can have a short bonding session over the story before he goes off to play again. I love stick man too, but sadly my kids are too old for julia donaldson books now, so i dont think we will. Books and activities for children who love the gruffalo. This time we visited alice holt forest in farnham, surrey as opposed to our last trip to moors valley in dorset. The other book we own from julia, room on the broom, teaches the importance of strong relationship. Alice holt forest does have a number of trails running at anyone time. The gruffalo wasnt around when my children were young but i had seen the animation of this book and have been waiting for my grand daughter to be old enough to make the purchase. We had never been to alice holt forest but i knew there were gruffalo sculptures there and i was keen for my little one to see them as we all enjoy reading the gruffalo and the other childrens books by julia donaldson and axel scheffler. Alice holt forest, gruffalo sculptures berkshire mummies. Since 2014, the forestry commission has been celebrating the muchloved books of children s author julia donaldson with special trails up and down the country. The start of the gruffalo trail at alice holt forest gruffalo trail, the gruffalo.
Gruffalos child trail at alice holt the gruffalo and the gruffalo s child are two of my favourite childrens books, i have such happy memories of reading both to all my children. Of course, there are now several of them from the highway rat to the stick man, but the first one we ever went to was the gruffalo trail at alice holt forest in surrey, when monkey was very young. Please carefully reconsider any plans you had to travel. The books, the gruffalo and the gruffalos child by julia donaldson and axel sceffler. Dear mummy, its our second attempt at visiting the gruffalo s child trail event, organised by the forestry commission. As the years have gone by they ask for the stories less, but whenever were in the forest we always end up looking for the gruffalo or pretending weve seen.
So much so it even featured on our 2019 travel bucket list. All recreation facilities and activities at alice holt forest are closed until further notice, including the toilets and the car park. A brilliant gift for children who love the gruffalo books, packed with fun, creative ideas inspired by the original story. The gruffallos child sculpture,gruffalo trail, alice holt forest, farnham.
Exploring alice holt forest and the gruffalo trail in. The most important thing for forestry england is to keep the public, our staff and volunteers safe. Gruffalo trail, st andrews, popular books, botanical gardens. We love the gruffalo books, so any opportunity to see the characters is a must.