Getting outside is a great way to learn more about the environment. From hunting bugs to making seashell magnets, these awesome hands-on activities are a great way for your child to get a little closer to nature.











Caper Story-Led Adventures in Nature
Do you have a difficult time getting your kids to look up from the screen and head outdoors? Enter a new app called Caper. Caper was created when the founder was trying to coax his five-year-old daughter out to the park on a beautiful day but she was absorbed in watching TV.
The Caper app offers parents original stories known as ‘missions’ designed to be played by the family together outdoors. Caper’s missions keep screen time to a minimum and have a real-world focus interwoven into the narrative of each adventure, helping reconnect families to each other and the world around them through Caper's original characters Captain Redtail and Holly Goodpsell and exciting adventures to play together.
Caper even offers a wintertime adventure called Snow Season, a series of twelve interactive family adventures, delivered daily on the Caper app in the run up to Christmas.
Download the app here.
Bug Hunting
Create Rock Art
If you are looking for more rock art activities, try creating your own rock people using dried pasta and other craft supplies!
Summer Memento Wreath
If your child loves to collect mementos from your trips to the beach, playground, or other summer destinations, save them and turn them into a wreath to display in your home (or, ahem, perhaps in your child's bedroom). Heavy cardboard makes a sturdy base for gluing heavier objects (like seashells), and will allow you to easily hang your masterpiece for all to see.
Pressed Flower Place Mats
Make a Nature Bracelet
Nature Scavenger Hunt
Build a Terrarium
Make a Bird Feeder
Nature Colors
When you return home, spread out your findings and have your child draw a picture of each item on a piece of paper using crayons that match the color of each. This simple activity is a great way for your child to learn his colors, and to see how colorful nature can be!