The Telegraph’s article Night walks for children: where the wild things are isn’t actually anything to do with Where The Wild Things Are. It’s about a series of ‘night walks’ organised by the London Wetland Centre for urban kids who don’t know what it’s like to sit around a campfire, play with sticks, feed birds and generally just ‘be outside’.

What the organisers don’t realise is that these urban scamps would rather be starting fires, whacking people with sticks, killing birds and staying outside all night until the sun comes up… I’m joking, of course. It’s really a fine idea and, by the sounds of things, the children (and their parents) do get a lot out of it.

Whatever happened to Cub Scouts and Brownies?

Night walks for children: where the wild things are (via The Telegraph)

(Lovingly made by Claire_issa “for her roommate as a farewell present”, found on Flickr via BoingBoing)

As if Arcade Fire’s lush reworking of Wake Up for the upcoming Where The Wild Things Are movie soundtrack wasn’t cool enough, Yeah Yeah Yeahs first lady Karen O has teamed up with a bunch of kids (an “untrained” children’s choir, actually) to do the same. You can listen to Karen O And The Kids – All Is Love via Stereogum.