NATURE LOVING KID STUFF

Rock Art: Draw a line or spiral with a long stick and ask them to collect rocks and pine cones and place on the line in a pattern. Show them a picture of “The spiral Jetty” by Robert Smithson

Camp Kitchen: Collect cooking gear from the thrift store, see if you can find items on small scale, find a flat rock, log or camp bench and draw in chalk a stove top (two circles with an “X”) Fill a pitcher of water and tell them to go to town making mud pies and cooking them. (keep mud away from where people walk)

Rock & Stick Art: Hunt for sticks and art and paint with washable tempera.


Pine Cone Critters: Glue small rocks, sticks onto Pine Cones to make different figures
 

Hide & Seek and old stand by


Bug Hunt with a bug jar


Hopscotch: Use a long stick to make squares in dirt & small rock to throw


Beading: $1 store good for this


Journal: Glue, tape and write about nature finds add photos later


Photo Fun: Use disposable camera or any and let you kid take any pictures they want or send them on a mission to take five Pict's. of brown things, fuzzy things, withing ten feet etc...


Tree Hugging: Hug a tree and close your eyes tell me what the tree is saying. Write or draw your experience. Write a letter to the tree or an animal in your campground

Leaf Mail: Find a fairly flat leaf and use paint or marker to write a few words on leaf and mail it. You can write things like Fun Camping In Tahoe or Found This Leaf For You or Miss You, Love Ruth. Make sure to bring an envelope and stamp before you leave for your trip


Fairy House: Build a fairy house out of leaves, rocks, sticks and use or make a doll 3”


Alter Art: Decorate a special location on campsite with feathers, rocks, art etc...


Find It: Paint a rock and have as many players hide their rocks when no one is looking. Then send every player off to find a rock that they didn't paint
 
Treasure Hunt: Give your child a list of things to find, rock two inches in size, green leaf etc... and see how long it takes them to find them


Camping Manors Game: How many pieces of trash can you collect on campsite esp. when you leave

 
Finger Puppets: If your where there are acorn, pull the top off and place on finger as a hat, then use non toxic marker to make a face on finger tip. You can make a stage from the pic nic table using rocks and collected items and have a finger puppet show


Leaf Rub: Place leaf under paper and crayon/pencil rub over top of paper

Indian Camp: Using non toxic face paint your child can face paint their own design and pretend they are an Indian setting up their own camp, playing pretend Indian activities like cooking, dancing and exploring. 


Search & Find: Gather sticks as small round as your little finger and break into 5" pieces. Have one child or adult make arrow shapes to create a path to the person who is hiding or the "treasure" is hiding. Then ask a child or adult to fallow the clues to find the person/treasure. You can use rocks or leaves to do this as well
 

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