Country Parks and Green Spaces Summer Events

22nd July 2026

📍Hillyfields Community Park
🫟 Family Craft Hour

Join us for a free day of nature crafts and a litter pick. Collect natural materials and make your own nature mobile. Help to litter pick the park and create your own clay insect.

Fri, 31 July: 10:30 – 11:30
Fri, 31 July: 11:30 – 12:30

Activity is free but booking is essential.
Please book via the link below.
Head to the Knight Avenue Play Area.
Booking Queries Email: [email protected]

Hosted by The Medway Swale Estuary Partnership

Book Here for Hilly Fields Craft Hour 10:30am

Book Here for Hilly Fields Craft Hour 11:30am

📍 Great Lines Heritage Park
🪲 Crickets, Grasshoppers & Butterfly Hunt with Clay Craft

Fri, 7 August: 10.30am - 11.30am SOLD OUT

Fri, 7 August: 11.30am - 12.30pm

Come along and look for insects in the long grasses with nets and then create your own clay bug to take home. Join us for this family event, where you will be inspired by the parks wildlife to create your own clay insect to take home.
We will hunt in the long grass for wildlife with sweep nets so long sleeves and trousers are advisable.

Activity is free but booking is essential.
Children need a booking, adults do not.
Book via the links below.
Head to the What3Words location: Rails.Metal.Period
Easiest entrance: Sally Port Gardens or Malborough Road
Booking Queries Email: [email protected]
Hosted by The Medway Swale Estuary Partnership

Book Here for Great Lines Clay Bugs 10:30 am

Book Here for Great Lines Clay Bugs 11:30 am

📍 Broomhill Park, Strood
🪲 Bug House and Clay Craft

Wed, 19 August: 10.30am - 11.30am

Wed, 19 August: 11.30am - 12.30pm

Come along and learn about the trees and wildlife in the park. Go exploring the park and creating your own clay bug and bug house. Decorate and build your own bug home to take home with you or hang in the park, plus make your own clay bug to take home.

Please wear old clothes that you don't mind getting dirty.

Activity is free but booking is essential.
Children need a booking, adults do not.
Book via the links below.
Find us between the Play Area and the Car Park.
Booking Queries Email: [email protected]

Hosted by The Medway Swale Estuary Partnership

Book Here for Broomhill Bug House 10:30am

Book Here for Broomhill Bug House 11:30am

📍 Gillingham Park, Canterbury St, ME7 5LA
🍓Wildlife Picnic

Fri, 14 August 11am – 2pm

Just turn up, no need to book! Join us for face painting, a nature trail and family crafts. Learn about the park's wildlife and get to craft with clay.

Don’t forget to bring along your picnic and blanket!

Free drop-in session.
Booking optional.
Look for our gazebo once you enter the park.

Book for Gillingham Park Picnnic

📍 The Vines, Vines Lane, Rochester ME1 1RQ
🍓Wildlife Picnic

Wed, 12 August 11am – 2pm

Just turn up, no need to book! Join us for face painting, a nature trail and family crafts. Learn about the park's wildlife and get to craft with clay. Don’t forget to bring along your picnic and blanket!

Free drop-in session.
Booking optional.
Look for our gazebo once you enter the park.

📍 Riverside Country Park
🍃 Mud Kitchen

Wed, 22 July: 10am to 12noon
Wed, 5 August: 10am - 12noon
Wed, 19 August: 10am - 12noon

📍 Riverside Country Park
🌳 Nature Trek

Go on safari and see the park through the ranger’s eyes, discover birds, bees, insects, flowers and maybe a reptile on this guided walk.

Tue, 28 July: 10am to 12noon
Tue, 28 July: 1pm to 3pm

Meet at the Visitor Centre

Ages 8 and above
£4.25 per participant
Booking Essential
Phone 01634 337432 to book (or pop into the visitor centre)

📍 Riverside Country Park
🌊 Mud Larking

Comb the beaches and discover the secrets of the shoreline. In this session we will be turning stones and lifting seaweed to find the creatures that live in mud and on the coast. Then return to the visitor centre and make pictures from the sand.

Tue, 4 August: 10am to 12noon
Tue, 4 August: 1pm to 3pm

Meet at the Visitor Centre

Ages 5 and above
£4.25 per participant
Booking Essential
Phone 01634 337432 to book (or pop into the visitor centre)

📍 Riverside Country Park
🐸 Pond Dipping

Dip into the pond and explore the watery home of its residents. This session will have you asking questions, discovering the creatures of fresh water and recording what you find with creative crafts.

Tue, 11 August: 10am - 12noon
Wed, 12 August: 10am - 12noon

Meet at the Visitor Centre

Ages 5 and above
£4.25 per participant
Booking Essential
Phone 01634 337432 to book (or pop into the visitor centre)

📍 Riverside Country Park
🐞 Bug Hunt

Enter the meadow and discover a world of minibeasts! In this session you will be learning about the bugs in the meadow by catching them in your net and identifying what you find. Then we will repay the bugs by building mini bug houses for you to take home.

Tue, 18 August: 10am to 12noon
Tue, 18 August: 1pm to 3pm

Meet at the Visitor Centre

Ages 5 and above
£4.25 per participant
Booking Essential
Phone 01634 337432 to book (or pop into the visitor centre)

📍 Riverside Country Park
🏡 Den Building

Walk beneath the canopy and explore our education woodland. Build a den alone or with friends from what you find on the woodland floor.

Tue, 25 August: 10am to 12noon
Tue, 25 August: 1pm to 3pm

Meet at the Visitor Centre

Ages 5 and above
£4.25 per participant
Booking Essential
Phone 01634 337432 to book (or pop into the visitor centre)

📍 Riverside Country Park
🔎 Riverside Quest!

Go on an adventure around the park - explore open meadows, tight woodland paths and hardy scrublands in this fun family quest! Explore the river's edge through twisted trees and stinking marsh and find our hidden markers. Purchase your map inside the Visitor Centre for £1.