Rushden Rangers Summer 2025
Join the Rushden Rangers this summer for a fun filled adventure!
Rushden Rangers are back this Summer for a midweek adventure, every week, with The Wildlife Trust.
Join the Rushden Rangers for nature inspired interactive fun this summer. There are 4 pre-bookable sessions every Wednesday at 10am, 11am, 1pm and 2pm. With a different theme each week, there's plenty to explore at Rushden!
23rd July: Wild Senses
This week Rushden Rangers are inviting Rangers on a Sensory Summer session. We’ll be discovering how animals have so evolved to have super senses. Rushden Rangers are devising a series of experiences to put our sense to the test, and seeing how we size up to our animal friends. So great ready for breathing in the scents in the air, listening to the sounds of nature. Get prepping for the touch challenge, feeling textures, and joining in all the specially set tests ahead
30th July: Wildlife Gardening; Bee Inspired
Can you move like a beetle? Dance like a bee? Sing like a bird? Rushden Rangers are returning to the colourful community garden for an inspiring day in nature. They’ll be exploring the colours insects and animals love and spotting some at work, and play; learninghow some birds have special songs for hunting, migrating and finding their way home; and everyone will be making their own creations in collage, dance, story & song
6th August: Powering Up
This week we’re thinking about where power comes from and what clever ways nature is behind generating electricity. The Rushden Rangers are getting their thinking caps on to share how heat pumps work, how solar panels perform and how wind & water’s energy is captured and turned into power. We’ll also be looking at fossil fuels, may be a few dinosaurs, and what makes energy clean. So prepare to Power Up at Rushden Lakes
13th August: Time Travellers
Rushden Rangers are looking at how Rushden Lakes has changed & transformed over time. Investigating the ground that you’re standing on, and tracking how valleys formed. Seeing how gravel and sand are made, stones really ROCK! And going way, way back to the Ice Age and discovering what walked where we treading now. Spoiler alert, yes, we mean mammoths (and much, much more)!
20th August: Really Wild Record Breakers
Our feather, furry & fishy friends all have incredible talents, physical abilities and strengths. The Rushden Rangers are celebrating how animals have evolved to survive and thrive in this world we share with the Really Wild Record Breakers: Setting animal to human ratio challenges and learning how well different body shapes & sizes suit their environment. And running lots of games to showing how animals use playing to learn and hone their specialist skills
27th August: Rushden by the Sea
Bring the beach feel to this week’s Rushden Rangers day. Get carried away by the ocean currents of facts about our amazing seas and oceans. We’ll be charting how waters move around our planet; sharing how heating and cooling these waters has a huge effect on; and discovering why the seas need our help to protect all the wonderful plants, fish & mammals that live in them. So, get your sun caps and lotion on and lets go for a dip into the world of water!