Outdoor Explorers

Go on a nature walk with your child and help them become an outdoor explorer.  You can do this activity many times.

Lie down in a park on a patch of grass or soft ground. Ask your child:

• How many nature sounds he or she hears?
• Is the sound from a bird, an animal, from the wind?

Look for different shapes and sizes of stones or rocks:

• What are their colours and shapes?
• How many do they see?

Ask your child to find something outside that is soft or hard:

• Can your child tell friends or parents what these things are?

Look at the ground:

• Ask your child to be very quiet and to watch and see how many bugs are working hard on the ground

Look underneath a large rock:

• Have your child count how many different kinds of bugs he or she can see
• What are the bugs all doing?