For each season hang the appropriate list someplace where you will see it everyday and try and have ALL of the activities checked off with your kids by the end of that season!
Summer Outdoor Activity Checklist
- Go bird watching
- Skip a stone in a lake or stream
- Roll down a grassy hill
- Plant a garden
- Go on a picnic
- Go star-gazing
- Blow a dandelion puff
- Fly a kite
- Go camping - even in your backyard counts
- Play in the mud
- Go for a rain walk
- Make a craft involving items found in nature
- Climb a tree
- Build a sand castle
- Add your own activity here!
- Go camping - even in your backyard counts
- Collect leaves of as many different colors as you can find
- Go apple picking
- Carve a pumpkin
- Plant some fall bulbs
- Add your own activity here!
Winter Outdoor Activity Checklist
- Do an icicle drawing or painting
- Make paper snowflakes
- Take a walk and count how many animals you can find moving around in winter
- Make snow angles
- Go camping - even in your backyard counts
- Make a bird feeder and watch the feeding birds
- Go for a walk in the snow and look for animal tracks
- Try a winter snow sport (skiing, snowshoeing, sledding)
- Add your own activity here!
Spring Outdoor Activity Checklist
- Plan a garden and buy seeds
- Plant some spring bulbs
- Go camping - even in your backyard counts
- Count how many different colors of spring flowers you can find in your neighborhood
- Learn one new native wildflower
- Press flower petals and then do a craft with them
- Go for a rain walk
- Add your own activity here!
