ENTERTAINMENT
Activities
Within the museum or in the surrounding area, discover our educational, fun, and sporting activities on the theme of the forest and wood. Information and details are available at the Maison du Bois et de la Forêt (House of Wood and Forest).
Scavenger hunt
“Investigation at the House of Wood, the adventure of the Swiss pine”
A fun and original way to explore the museum as a family.
Do you have the soul of a detective? Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help the House of Wood & Forest identify the thief who stole all the seeds from our Swiss pine cones. With your booklet, follow the numbered cones in the museum, decipher the riddles, and find the thief to win a little surprise!
Price: €1/investigation booklet.
The Little Carpenter's Workshops
Not just to watch, but to DO too!
The Maison du Bois et de la Forêt regularly offers workshops for making wooden objects (figurines, door plaques, etc.) for children aged 6 to 15, to learn the gestures of the carpenter.
Accompanied by their parents or a responsible adult, they draw their template, cut with the carpenter using a scroll saw, drill, sand, pyrograph… and leave with a 100% local and personalized souvenir!
This fun and educational activity delights both children and teenagers!
The workshops last approximately 1 hour.
If you would like to organize this activity within your organization, we can come to you.
Passaloup Trail
Fancy a walk in the woods near the Maison du Bois & de la Forêt (House of Wood & Forest)? From June to September, explore the Passaloup trail in the cool, shady Méolans forest! Along the way, educational panels present the different facets of the forest and offer short audio guides to listen to on your phone. Forestry, resin harvesting, forest therapy, biodiversity conservation… the forest will hold no more secrets for you!
Elevation gain: 170 meters (beware, steep climb at the beginning!)
Estimated walking time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Distance: 2.95 km
Waymarking: Yellow and wooden signs
Difficulty: medium
This trail was created with the support of the EAFRD (European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development).
Educational resources
The Maison du Bois et de la Forêt (House of Wood and Forest) also offers a range of educational resources to introduce the forest and its related professions to the general public and to schools/leisure centers. Prices and service requests are available upon request.
“Ecolobois” educational kit
Created by FIBOIS (the French Timber Industry Association), this kit takes children on a journey from the world's great forests to the forests found in the South Region of France, inviting them to consider the role of wood in their daily lives. Through observation games, videos, and photo cards, they discover, in a fun and engaging way, the journey of wood from its forest to its transformation into an object or energy source.
Target audience: Cycle 3
Duration: Classroom activity over half a day.
Themes: Timber industry, forests, geography, timber trades, biodiversity.
Sylvafresque
This interactive activity, created by the French National Forestry Office (ONF), explores the complex interactions that govern the functioning of French forests. Through a story and a card game, participants react to information provided by the facilitator and collaboratively develop actions related to the forest, drawing on their own perspectives. Multifunctionality, production challenges, tourism development… all these themes are addressed in a participatory and engaging way!
Audience: Adults, 15 years and older
Duration: 3-hour activity for a group of up to 15 participants
Themes: Multifunctionality, biodiversity, conflicts of interest, sharing of space, perceptions, timber industry, recreational uses of forests.