Finnish Kids' Forest Trip Day is a children’s day of nature celebration!
The Kids' Forest Hiking Day will take place on 16.5.2025 for the tenth time!
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On the Forest Trip Day, children embrace the forest and the forest embraces the children!
Because a Forest Trip Day allows the joy and magic of nature to be experienced. Finnish Kids' Forest Trip Day event is a major national event that encourages all adults to take children to explore nature. Although a forest trip can be organized at any time, the children's own forest trip day is always in May each year.
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Forest trips are a time to move, play, wonder and learn - in a fun way! You can set off without any big plans. Any kind of adventure in the woods, carousing in the bogs or sitting on the shores gives you a chance to relax or rejoice. But sometimes planning is necessary. The Forest Trip Day event will give you some ideas on what to do on your trip. One of the aims of the event is to raise awareness of the importance of forest trips, how to plan them and how to carry them out.
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Have you already got your backpack packed?​
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"We have a dream. The dream smells of the forest. The kind where children's joy rings and blueberries taste! One where the deep green of moss meets the hum of pine trees swaying in the wind. What it is like to walk in the forest and stop! To wonder. How does the water of a brook feel on your toes, a raindrop on your shoulder or the sun on your face after a long walk? If you've walked in a morning mist in a forest where a spring bird is singing, you've been happy."
President Sauli Niinistö is the permanent patron of the Finnish Kids' Forest Trip Day.​ The event is organized by the Biology Didactics Research Group of the Department of Education at the University of Helsinki.
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