Our kids are always up for an adventure, and a Nature Scavenger Hunt is as cheap and exciting as it gets!
They love coming up with the lists themselves. When they were little we drew (attempted to draw!) pictures of what they had to find. This time they listed some hard things... a birds egg, a smooth round rock, a "Y" stick, a purple flower, a bug, yellow leaf, etc!
ALSO! We had a separate list of things that we just had to see... a lizard, dog, black bird, birds nest, pink flowers, dog poop! etc.
They had a blast running around searching for everything on their list. It was amazing how many little details about your own neighborhood you notice when you walk slow and pay attention.
Colby and Ger collecting 3 leaf clovers...
In fact we were all surprised when we found a small egg shell from a bird on the ground and looked up to see it's Mommy and nest! So neat! They didn't really think they would find a birds egg so were SOO excited to be able to cross that off their list.
We seriously were out over an hour hunting for everything on the list but the kids were definitely not bored- we had to beg them to go home! ;-)
We found pine needles and taught them the game where you pull it apart and whoever gets the nodule on the end wins- they thought that was so fun.
Colby was dissapointed that the bird egg we found was so small so Ger ran home and cracked a real egg and put it in an empty nest in a tree by our house- ha! Just don't tell Colby that was actually a chicken's egg! Happy hunting! ;-)
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