22nd June 2020
Garden Fun
Young outdoor explorers
Animal Movements: It’s time to pretend to be different animals! Think how different animals might move. Play on your own or with a member of your family. Pick a card and read it aloud and act it out. Or you could play it like charades and your partner has to guess what animal you are from your movements.
Growing outdoor explorers
Scavenger Hunt: Use thissheet as a starting point for descriptive ideas to scavenge for. Discuss how a lot of the words they are searching for are adjectives (describing words). You could do this activity indoors as well as outdoors if you wished.
Expert outdoor explorers
Green High Five: Give the soil a high five and sow some seeds in the indent for some real green fingers!
Going for a Walk
Young outdoor explorers
Plant and Flower hunt: When you go for a walk, take this sheet with you to look for different plants and flowers. How many can you find?
Growing outdoor explorers & Expert outdoor explorers
Nature Walk Scavenger Hunt: Go on the search for a specific bird, plant or insect. How many can you find?
Exploring the Outdoors
Young outdoor explorers
Leaf necklace: When you are out exploring, collect a beautiful selection of leaves with your parent’s guidance as some leaves can sting, have spiky edges or can irritate your skin.
- Cut string long enough to be a necklace and tie a small stick to the end to act as a needle.
- Holepunch holes in the leaves.
- Thread the string through the holes in the leaves.
- Tie a knot so the leaves don’t fall off the necklace.
- Wear the necklace.
Growing outdoor explorers
Let’s go fly a kite:
Find two sticks, one longer than the other and use some string to tie them together in a cross. Cut some paper in a kite shape large enough to cover the sticks. Then use tape to attach it. Tie some string and then hope for a windy day to take it out to a local large outdoor space to run around and hope it flies!!
Expert outdoor explorers
Natural Mandala: A mandala is a geometric pattern, try to create a pattern picture out of natural resources that you find. Maybe leave it in a woodland or a park for someone else to enjoy. You may inspire them to have a go themselves!
