Bog Day resources

Peeswit Moss. Credit Emma Hinchliffe

We and our partners have produced a range of resources for all ages, which aim to inspire and educate about the fascinating world of peatlands (please note that many of these links will open to external websites). On this page you will also find our branding resources to help you promote your Bog Day event.

Education and engagement resources

Bog Day activity sheets

Bog Day colouring (round-leaved sundew, curlew and emperor moth caterpillar)

Bog Day quiz (for older children)
Bog Day wordsearch

Peat-Fest South-West activities

Peat-Fest South-West was a region-wide celebration raising awareness of peatland heritage through youth-focused events, intergenerational skills exchange, creative activities, and digital storytelling. Through the summer and autumn of 2025, partners across South West England created curiosity-generating, hands-on, fun-filled Bogtastic events, enjoying our boggy peatlands as special nature-rich places, necessary for all of life facing climate change and ecological decline.

Download the Peat-Fest South-West Manifesto

Download the Peat-Fest South-West Activity Book, featuring a peatland diary, found folk poem, bog body generator and story generator for people of all ages.

Listen to the Peat-Fest South-West Bogcasts, featuring peatland stories, hope and inspiration from intergenerational voices.

Map of South West England showing different peatland areas and graphics of the people and wildlife found there.

Bring Peat to Life writing resource

Front cover of Bringing Peat to Life, showing a graphic of a peatland landscapes in blues and browns with sedge-like vegetation in the foreground.

Bringing Peat to Life by Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw is a guide to good writing for those working in peat protection and restoration. You can also dowload this as a print-ready version.

Bogs Talking Poetry Class from the Poetry Society

In this resource from the Poetry Society, learners will discover how bogs are created, learning about habitat, carbon capture and adaptation. They will read a poem using kennings, and will write their own poems about the sounds of a bog, using simile, alliteration and onomatopoeia. Suitable for upper Key Stage 2.

Peatland Educational Resources from LIFE Welsh Raised Bog Project and Natural Resources Wales

On this webpage you will find activity plans for schools (for a range of ages) that cover everything from ‘what are peatlands?’ to instructions on how to calculate how much carbon is locked up in a square metre of peat.

Moors for the Future educational resources

Plant Identification Chart

Explore Moor field guide app
Make your own Top Trumps Card Game - Moorland Wildlife (for older children)
Carbon cycle work sheet (for older children)
Moorland Discovery Teachers’ Pack (KS1-KS4)
Investigating populations teaching resource (for older children)

Yorkshire Peat Partnership resources

Wildlife Watch activities from The Wildlife Trusts

Make your own wildlife masks from the Wildlife Trusts

Colour in your own mask (common frog, adder, emperor moth)

Irish Peatland Conservation Council resources

Irish Peatland Conservation Council Fen Habitats guide

Fens East Peat Partnership resources

Fens East Peat Partnership Fantastic Peat booklet

Fantastic Peat activity book (for primary school)

Amazing Peatlands activity book (for secondary school)

Peat the Lapwing game

Peat the Lapwing follows the journey of a wellie wearing lapwing called ‘Peat’. Players are asked to complete a series of tasks so that the peat bog can be brought back to life and Peat can find a nesting site.

The game was developed by Natural England.

Inspiring videos

The Day We Found The Bog video (https://youtu.be/LKvxEls4wRs)

The Day We Found The Bog: This was released for Bog Day - an international celebration of the importance of bogs, fens, swamps and marshes on the 4^th Sunday of each July.

Bog Day: Peatlands are... video (https://youtu.be/vpx7xZ8curM?si=4mPKseAnoHtWoBhd )

The following ‘Peatlands are…’ film compilation shows the different relationships and meanings peatlands have to many people across the globe.

Bog Day branding resources

Download our branding resources to help promote your Bog Day event. Please ensure you mention the IUCN UK Peatland Programme if you use these resources.