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Outdoors

Outdoors

Research has shown that outdoor learning boosts confidence, social skills, communication, motivation, physical skills, knowledge and understanding. It has also been found to boost children's self-esteem, self-confidence, ability to work cooperatively and build a positive attitude to learning.

 

 

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Wildlife Trust Activities - A selection of activities such as building homes for British animals, colouring and nature spotters. 

 

 Take a look at our Learning Outside the Classroom page for more ideas.

1. Make a boat with things found in nature. Make a boat out of just about anything we found outside. Tree bark, twigs, grass, etc. You can weave rafts out of grass and twigs. Another, thing to do is, to pick a dandelion, pull the flower off the top and peel the stem like string cheese. As soon as you put the pieces of stem in the water they curl up really tightly.

2. Jump in puddles. This is often a child’s favourite thing to do outside when it rains. They have a contest to see who can make the biggest splash.

3. Make wet chalk art. After, or during a rainstorm, you can send your child outside to draw with chalk on the sidewalks or driveway. The rain makes the colours vibrant and helps them blur together like water colour. So fun!

4. Be a scientist. Learn what will float or sink in the water. Watch the clouds and see if you can figure out which way they are traveling. Predict how long you think it will rain. Collect rain water and see how many inches fell at your house. So many fun things to do for your little scientists.

5. Catch raindrops. Use different containers and see which one will fill up the fastest. Put some drops of food colouring in clear containers and see what happens when they fill with rainwater. You can add one drop red and one drop blue to one container and the kids can watch how the two colours get mixed together to make purple. Take a walk and see how the leaves and grass catch raindrops. See if you can count how many raindrops are on a leaf.

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