Exploring Animal Camouflage
Related Episode: Now You See Me, Now You Don't

In this activity, you and your child can learn about protective coloration in animals by exploring the birds, insects, and other animals around your home and neighborhood. You can also have fun together playing the game “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t!”

Exploring Animals in Trees
Related Episode: Trees Company

Help your child learn about trees, and the animals that use them, by exploring the trees in your backyard or neighborhood, and doing some leaf and bark rubbings together.

Exploring Flowers
Related Episode: Flower Power

Through observing, comparing, and collecting flowers, you can help your child learn more about flowers and the bees, butterflies, or other small creatures that depend on them for food, water, or shelter. In this activity, you can also have fun pressing and preserving flowers.

Exploring Our Senses
Related Episode: I Love the Nightlife

In this activity you can help your child explore the world by engaging him in indoor and outdoor sensory explorations that use all of his senses. You can also go on explorations after dark and help your child learn about nocturnal animals.

Exploring Weather
Related Episode: Snowman's Land

In this activity you can encourage your child to notice and describe different kinds of weather, including clouds, rain, snow, wind, and temperature. You can make a simple weather chart together to learn more about weather. And through simple and fun observations of water freezing and ice melting, you can help your child learn about cold-weather phenomena.

Feeding and Observing Birds
Related Episode: Migration Vacation

In this activity you can make a simple bird feeder with your child to help her learn more about birds. Together you can observe the birds that visit the feeder, and learn about birds that live in your area year-round or birds that are migrating from faraway places.