15th of June 2020
Garden Fun
Young outdoor explorers
Nature crowns: Collect a range of interesting and different natural resources from your garden or from a local walk. Use glue or tape to stick the natural resources to a band of paper/card to make a natural crown.
Growing outdoor explorers
Nature’s Paintbrushes: Collect sticks and use string or elastic bands to attach leaves, grasses or flowers to create some natural patterns. Explore different colours, the patterns and shapes they make and create an abstract work of art
Expert outdoor explorers
Create a Critter: Let your imagination run wild and invent a new creature particularly adapted to a certain spot outdoors or even in your house. Create the creature out of clay, play dough, loose parts - whatever you have to hand! How does it eat? Where does it sleep? How does it defend itself?
Going for a Walk
Young outdoor explorers
Rainbow hunt: When you go for a walk, take a sheet like this with you and with double sided sticky tape in rows or in the shape of a rainbow. Discuss the names of colours, shapes of items and textures. Collect a natural rainbow!
Growing outdoor explorers & Expert outdoor explorers
Puddle Potential: How can you study a puddle? How deep is it? Can you build a bridge to cross it? What floats? What sinks? Can you make ripples in the water? Is the puddle there the next day? Why/why not?
Exploring the Outdoors
Young outdoor explorers
Sink and Float: Use natural resources (sticks, rocks, flowers) that you find in your garden and test out if they float or sink in a tray/bowl of water. Ask if they can predict what they think might happen and see if they can explain why they think that. Always supervise children near water.
Growing outdoor explorers
Felt tip pen leaf colouring:
Choose a selection of leaves from your garden or from a walk you’ve been on and use felt tip pens to colour the underside of the leaf, then press it on to a piece of paper and the colours should be transferred onto the paper in a print and you can see all the veins inside the leaf.
Expert outdoor explorers
Tipi for Teddy: Can you make a simple shelter for teddy and friends indoors or out?
