These are activities that you can do in the house but involve natural resources. These are great if you want to create a purpose for a walk in nature and then have an activity to do from home afterward.
Woodlouse Maze Race
Today’s activity is a bit of fun. I found this idea on Discover Wildlife and just thought it would be a great project to occupy small hands for a while (tiny hands will need lots of support with this one) and then something that could bring fun to the whole family. D ...
Bird Song Identification
Today’s activity is inspired by a member of our community. She wrote to me saying she was missing the woods and the countryside and could I please send her a video. So Today I am doing just that. I am no cinematographer (as you will see!) but I shot a short video in ...
Create a Wildlife Friendly Garden
This activity comes to us from our community again — Thank you for keeping in touch and sending us your ideas! I love that we are all coming together to keeps our children connected to nature. Thank you! Do you have a back garden? If you do this one is for you. If ...
Easter ‘Egg’ Hunt
This activity comes to us from Pascale. I love Pascale’s ideas as they are all very child directed so the child takes ownership for and participates in the activity with out the top down approach of some adult directed activities. Perfect for this weekend or for any ...
Live Web Cams
Today’s activity is one that you can pop back and visit everyday. It is such a wonderful thing to get a peek into the lives of animals that we would not normally see. This website has multiple live webcams running all over the world so you can watch animals you may se ...
Giant Noughts and Crosses
This activity comes from Pascale. As Pascale has Montessori training she has chosen an activity that is entirely child led. You can offer them the idea and see if it peaks their interest. If it does, great! Let them organise it all and possibly join them for a game when ...
Stick Wind Chime
This lovely idea come from Chloe, she is full of great ideas. As you may have noticed there is a theme to Chloe’s ideas, beauty, craft and things that would look gorgeous on Pinterest. She is such a creative person and continues to amaze me the more I learn about her ...
Cloud Watching
This activity is a great one to do any day inside or out. You can just have a cloud viewer made up and take it along on walks or having it sitting by a window to be used at any point. Having it there and ready to go makes it more likely that they children will use it. Clou ...
Story Stones
This is another one for the older children to make but it will become a great activity that the whole family can play once it is finished. This is a great literacy activity for all ages and makes a lovely homemade substitute for Rory’s Stories Cubes. Story Stones For ...
Fairy Furniture
This is a great activity for older children but there are plenty that younger children can do to help with this too. This could tie in nicely with the miniature garden we made a couple of weeks ago. How is it doing? Are you remembering to water it to keep your plants aliv ...