A WEEKLY EMAIL HELPING DADS NAIL FATHERHOOD, ONE ADVENTURE AT A TIME

Ideas, hacks and inspiration to become the Dad your kids brag about.

Guerrilla Gardening for Beginners (Adventure Dad Edition)

Oct 15, 2025

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6 min read

Guerrilla Gardening for Beginners (Adventure Dad Edition)

Armed with DIY seed balls, pedals and reckless optimism...we struck back at the grey.

Henry Brydon

How to Raise Kids Who Give a Damn About Nature

Oct 8, 2025

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7 min read

How to Raise Kids Who Give a Damn About Nature

Including five ways to kick-start an eco-rebellion together.

Henry Brydon

How to Make Campfire Bread (The Easy Way)

Oct 1, 2025

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5 min read

How to Make Campfire Bread (The Easy Way)

Because life’s way too short for sliced bread.

Henry Brydon

Sep 24, 2025

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10 min read

The Glorious Art of Cloudspotting

The cheapest, weirdest, most wonderful family activity you’ll ever do.

Henry Brydon

5 Wet-Weather Microadventures Any Dad Can Pull Off

Sep 17, 2025

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11 min read

5 Wet-Weather Microadventures Any Dad Can Pull Off

Because anyone can parent in sunshine. Real dads earn their stripes in storms.

Henry Brydon

Want a Handwritten Adventure for You and the Kids?

Sep 10, 2025

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3 min read

Want a Handwritten Adventure for You and the Kids?

Share Outside Kids with fellow Dads and earn a handwritten letter from me to spark an adventure.

Henry Brydon

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A Dad’s Guide to Fossil Hunting With Kids in Britain

Sep 3, 2025

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13 min read

A Dad’s Guide to Fossil Hunting With Kids in Britain

Screens off, socks full of 450-million-year-old contraband.

Henry Brydon

8 DIY Dadventures to Rescue What’s Left of Summer

Aug 27, 2025

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13 min read

8 DIY Dadventures to Rescue What’s Left of Summer

Includes trees, tents, cloud philosophy and a suspicious jam trap.

Henry Brydon

Aug 20, 2025

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7 min read

How to Make a Wild Blackberry Pie

A dad’s first attempt at turning bramble loot into pie.

Henry Brydon

5 Lessons From Three Weeks Camping Across France With Kids

Aug 13, 2025

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13 min read

5 Lessons From Three Weeks Camping Across France With Kids

Three weeks, two kids, one tent...and just enough baguettes, waterfalls, and haunted houses to make it the trip of a lifetime.

Henry Brydon

6 Simple Outdoor Activities to Try with Your Kids This Summer

Aug 6, 2025

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13 min read

6 Simple Outdoor Activities to Try with Your Kids This Summer

Tested in the wild by a dad who botched the bread, blew the navigation, and took a rope swing to the ribs (so you don’t have to).

Henry Brydon

Jul 29, 2025

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8 min read

How to Skim Stones and Influence People

Coming from a man who once ruined his rotator cuff in pursuit of the perfect twenty-bouncer.

Henry Brydon

We Built a Den in an Hour - Here are 4 Setups You Can Try Too (No Power Tools Required)

Jul 22, 2025

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11 min read

We Built a Den in an Hour - Here are 4 Setups You Can Try Too (No Power Tools Required)

Bare feet, bush poos, and a crash course in childhood architecture. This is the good stuff.

Henry Brydon

Jul 15, 2025

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7 min read

What the Hell is Outside Kids?

A field guide for Dads who want to raise free-range humans in a world gone a bit...indoors.

Henry Brydon

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Reader stories from the wild frontier of fatherhood

Sep 5, 2025

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7 min read

Reflections on Raising a Non-iPad Kid

One decade in: bruises, belly laughs and a fight against iPad necks.

Jamie Brewer

A WEEKLY EMAIL HELPING DADS NAIL FATHERHOOD, ONE ADVENTURE AT A TIME

Guerrilla Gardening for Beginners (Adventure Dad Edition)

How to Raise Kids Who Give a Damn About Nature

How to Make Campfire Bread (The Easy Way)

The Glorious Art of Cloudspotting

5 Wet-Weather Microadventures Any Dad Can Pull Off

Want a Handwritten Adventure for You and the Kids?

FREE EMAIL DROPS HOTTER THAN A GREGGS PASTY EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING

A Dad’s Guide to Fossil Hunting With Kids in Britain

8 DIY Dadventures to Rescue What’s Left of Summer

How to Make a Wild Blackberry Pie

5 Lessons From Three Weeks Camping Across France With Kids

6 Simple Outdoor Activities to Try with Your Kids This Summer

How to Skim Stones and Influence People

We Built a Den in an Hour - Here are 4 Setups You Can Try Too (No Power Tools Required)

What the Hell is Outside Kids?

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Reflections on Raising a Non-iPad Kid

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