The activities and resources on this page will enhance a child's understanding and connection to nature. They can be used to support learning after an excursion or incursion and learning from home.
The majority of these activities are stand alone activities that also feature in our online resources.
Explore our book page for an overview of our favourite picture books and how they can be used with children.
Activities
- View the YouTube video Nature bingo.
- Go outside to play nature bingo.
- View the YouTube video Let's build a cubby.
- Build a cubby.
- How will you play safely?
- View the YouTube video Making a leaf rubbing.
- Collect leaves from the ground.
- Feel their texture.
- Look at their shapes and colours.
- Have they been eaten? Are there any lumps or small webs?
- Make a leaf rubbing to record their features.
- View the YouTube video Sit spots
- Go outside and do a sit spot.
- What did you see, hear and feel?
- Download Chatterpix or a similar app.
- View the YouTube video Talking banksia creature
- Plan a short sentence about where your creature lives.
- Record your sentence.
View the YouTube video My backyard bugs.
Go outside. Look for small animals in a garden.
Draw some of the animals you found. Can you find out their names?
- View the YouTube video Collecting invertebrates.
- How does the code for caring help to protect the animal and keep you safe?
- Use the invertebrate identification chart to identify the invertebrates you have found.
- Find out more information about your invertebrates by exploring our invertebrate facts sheets.
View the YouTube video Making a spider out of paper.
Make a model of an invertebrate using sticks, leaves, paper, cardboard or lego.
Include all of its external features.
- View the YouTube video on Weather diary.
- Observe the weather.
- Create a weather diary and record your observations.
- View the YouTube video on Wildflowers.
- Explore your local bushland looking for wildflowers.
- View the YouTube video Bushwalking adventures.
- Write or draw they things you would need to take to stay safe on a bush walk.
- View the YouTube video Bee breathing.
- Practice bee breathing with Tania.
- View the YouTube video Teddy yoga.
- Practice yoga with Tania.
- View the YouTube video A clothes map.
- Create a map of your house using clothes.
Activities
- View the YouTube video Creating your own classification key
Create a classification key for a group of everyday items.
Start with the most obvious features of the item.
Move to more specific features as you progress.
Remember, each line in the branch must have two choices.
- View the YouTube video Sit spots
- Go outside and do a sit spot.
- What did you see, hear and feel?
- View the YouTube video Folded views
- Go to an outdoor area.
- Make a folded view.
- View the YouTube video Collecting invertebrates.
- How does the code for caring help to protect the animal and keep you safe?
- Use the invertebrate identification chart to identify the invertebrates you have found.
- Find out more information about your invertebrates by exploring our invertebrate facts sheets.
- View the YouTube video Virtual fieldwork using Google Maps
- Open Google Maps and locate bushland near you.
- Use Street view or the photo spheres to explore.
- View the YouTube video creating a poster.
- Create a poster promoting the value of nature.
- View the YouTube video creating a stop motion animation.
- Create an animation about some of the animals that use natural areas near your home.
- View the YouTube video on Wildflowers.
- Explore your local bushland looking for wildflowers.
- View the YouTube video Bioblitz mapping.
- Download the Bioblitz map.
- Record the grid references for all the animals on the map.