Explore Nature on a Walk
Children can find all kinds of treasures everywhere! Plan a walk with your child and maybe a friend, too. You may not get very far, or move very quickly, but children can have a chance to look for things like leaves, tiny bugs, stones, and squirrels.
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Bring along a small bag for each child to gather things they find along the way.
Children who are interested in trees might enjoy a “tree walk.” Get to know the trees on your walk. Look carefully at their shapes and sizes. Touch the bark. Look at the shapes of the different leaves. You don’t need to know about the different trees. You can all have fun noticing the ways they are different and the ways they are the same.
When you’re back home, get creative together and help the children use what they’ve found to make a collage.
Leaves can be used to make leaf rubbings. Put a leaf under a piece of paper and show your child how to rub across it with the side of a crayon. Hold the leaf and paper still while rubbing so that the outline appears.
Stones can be painted and used as paperweights.
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