Explore and connect to nature through a creative, collaborative and playful adventure with wildground
Wild Ground Creative Adventures facilitates nature play sessions and creative bush adventures for families and children. Our range of programs aim to reconnect adults and children back to a deeper awareness of themselves, others and nature. ABOUT US
Business Owner, Facilitator and Blogger
Danielle has worked as an educator and group facilitator in a variety of contexts over the past 15 years in the arts, primary school education and outdoor adventure industries. She has also managed and implemented a variety of creative-based events, programs and community spaces and worked as a freelance writer, performer and art creator. She is the single mother of two adventurous and wild children. Bush School Facilitator
Andrea is passionate about adventuring and exploring the bush with her five year old boy. Originally from Canada, she has a background in social work and primary teaching and has spent a lot of time in the northern communities of Canada. Alongside skiing and yoga, she is passionate about bushwalking.
19/09/2025
🌿 Bush School is moving! 🌿
This Term 4 we’re excited to bring Bush School to the Mid Mountains — just in time for long summer days outdoors.
Each Monday, children will have the chance to spend a full day (10am-3pm) immersed in play, bushcraft, creativity, and connection with nature and each other.
Bush School is all about building confidence, resilience, and joy through child-led exploration and supported risk-taking. We’ve loved seeing kids grow season after season, and can’t wait to welcome new and returning families into this next chapter.
✨ Limited places available — bookings now open!
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17/09/2025
🌿 From toddlers to teens, some of our Wild Ground families have been with us from the very beginning. 🌿
Over the years, we’ve loved watching these kids grow — exploring the bush, testing their limits, sparking curiosity, and creating memories together as a family. The feedback we hear most? That Wild Ground isn’t just an activity, it’s an experience that stays with them long after the day ends.
👉 The cart is open for our Teen Artful Adventure — a chance for 12–15 year olds to connect, create, and play in nature.
Wild Ground has always been more than just me — it’s been shaped by an incredible team of women over the years, each bringing their own skills, creativity and heart. 🌿✨
This season, I’m so excited to share who’s alongside me. From artists and educators to ecologists and performers, our team is here to hold space, spark curiosity, and create those unforgettable Wild Ground adventures.
I feel so lucky to be working with them — and you’ll get to meet them in the programs coming up soon. Spots are filling quickly, and it’s always our facilitators who make the magic happen. 💚
16/09/2025
For years, parents have been asking: “When will you run something for the teens?”
And now, here it is. We’re excited!
🌿 Teens Artful Adventure
📅 Thursday 9th October
👥 Ages 12–15
⛰️ A short bushwalk, watercolours, nature journaling, whittling, and fire striking
Some of these young people have been with us since they were two. Others we haven’t seen in years — but they might be ready to step back into the bush with fresh eyes. This is their chance.
This new session is designed to be inclusive, creative, and adventurous.
A low demand space for teens to:
✨ Slow down in nature
🎨 Explore watercolours and journaling techniques
🔥 Learn bushcraft skills (like whittling and fire striking)
🌸 And reconnect with themselves, each other, and the wild
Today some of the bush school crew decided they were up for a challenge — a longer hike, all the way down to the BIG waterfall. It involved a fair few steps that aren’t really designed for five year old legs!
One of them turned to me and said:
👉 “Hey Dan, it’s not bush school today. It’s tricky bush school. Because we’re doing so much tricky hiking. But I won’t give up or stop because I’m having too much fun.”
That’s what we love to see at Wild Ground — kids choosing their own adventure, testing themselves, and discovering that resilience can be joyful. Sometimes that’s about the actual hiking, sometimes it’s about the bravery needed to say goodbye to a parent at the beginning of the session. Other times, the challenge is more about a social thing - initiating a new friendship or advocating for your needs in the group. It’s all part of it.
The waterfall at the end was the reward, but really, the magic was in the journey.
If your kids are keen to explore, play, and challenge themselves too, we’ve still got a few spots left in our October holiday programs. Check out our website for more details…
30/08/2025
🌿 Early bird bookings are OPEN! 🌿
Our October school holiday adventures are coming up fast! Waterfall Adventure on 3rd Oct and Artful Adventure on 10th Oct – bush play, nature art, and plenty of wild fun for kids aged 6–13.
Spots are limited, so jump on our mailing list to grab your place!
10/08/2025
🌿🔍 The Hidden Language of Plants & Pollinators – A Free Talk For All Ages.
🗓 Thursday 14 August | 🕠 5:30pm–6:30pm | 📍Bates Hall, Blackheath
Ever wondered how bees and plants communicate?
Join Dr Amelie Vanderstock (Amelie Ecology) as she unpacks the secret language shared between flowers and their pollinators for Science Week!
🍰 Includes tea, coffee and cake, yum 🙂
🧠 All ages welcome – a great night out for curious minds.
📞 Bookings: https://forms.office.com/r/7GvAyjBjDB or ring Hamish on 02 4787 7770
07/08/2025
One of our favourite bee-ings Amelie Ecology has three workshops coming up 14-16 August to celebrate Science Week in our local town, Blackheath. These exciting and fun events are hosted by our friends at Blackheath Area Neighbourhood Centre. Bookings are essential: use the QR code or call 02 47877770 for more info
See you there! 🐝🐝🐝🐝
🌼🐝 Free Kids Bee Workshop – Explore the World of Native Bees!
🗓 Saturday 16 August | 🕙 10am–11am | 📍Blackheath Gardens & Bates Hall
Buzz into Science Week with a playful and hands-on kids' workshop all about native bees!
Through songs, games, art and nature exploration, kids will discover how incredible our tiny pollinators really are.
A circle of kids around the “fairy fire,” sharing fire skills and testing which materials catch best.
Peer mentoring. Friendships. Belonging.
This is what happens when we — as educators — get the balance just right.
Knowing when to step back, when to connect in, and when to trust.
Holding the edges safely without crowding their growth.
Because when the ratio of young people/children to mentors is right, we give them the space to see their own capacity — to feel I can do this.
And that’s where confidence begins. And a sense of belonging.
21/07/2025
Oat ball cookies made in the camp oven today.
16/07/2025
Term 3 Bush School Adventures – now enrolling!
We’re shifting to Mondays this term, with weekly sessions from 9:30am–2:30pm.
Expect fire-making, waterfall wanders, creek play, bushcraft, and space for kids to build confidence, connection, and skills in the wild.
Perfect for kids who come alive outdoors and thrive with hands-on, child-led learning.
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Wild Ground Creative Adventures facilitates nature play sessions and creative bush adventures for families, children and women. Our range of programs aim to reconnect adults and children back to a deeper awareness of themselves, others and nature.
Wild Ground is proudly a woman-run business and is based in the Blue Mountains, NSW. It was founded by Danielle Carey and has been running for the past four years.
Business Owner, Blogger and educator
Danielle has worked as an educator and group facilitator in a variety of contexts over the past 15 years in the arts, primary school education and outdoor adventure industries. She has also managed and implemented a variety of creative-based events, programs and community spaces and worked as a freelance writer, performer and art creator. She is the single mother of two adventurous and wild children.
Bush School Facilitator
Andrea is passionate about adventuring and exploring the bush with her five year old boy. Originally from Canada, she has a background in social work and primary school teaching and has spent a lot of time in the northern communities of Canada. Alongside skiing and yoga, she is passionate about bushwalking.
Artist-in-Residence
Niki is an interdisciplinary artist who creates art for connection, beauty and legacy. Her current work contributes to a personal aesthetic in response to nature, society and major life experiences. She works with paint, inks, paper, canvas, pencil, found objects, collage, assemblage – both in the two and three dimensional, art books and the written word. Her strong sense of social justice has been the driving force behind her earlier art-making within community-based contexts; theatre, youth, cancer and palliative care. She also currently works in community and cultural development in end of life care and makes legacy artworks for people and their families at the end of life. You can read more about Niki at her patreon webpage: patreon.com/NikiRead
