Creative Photography
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The creative photography activity can be as structured (or not) as desired, based on age group and abilities. It can also be used as inspiration for exploring the outdoors, without necessarily needing cameras.
Learning Resources
Feeling Gauge – Reflection Activity
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Based on the children’s film “Inside Out”. Discuss each character and their emotion, what the word means and different ways and sensations that express that feeling. Can be used for reflection at the start and end of sessions
Hapa Zome (leaf dye) and symmetry
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Hapa Zome means “leaf dye” in Japanese. It is a traditional Japanese art from of leaf printing, where the pigments (or colours) within a leaf are transferred onto cloth or paper.
Map Reading Activity
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Learn basic map reading skills with this activity, where participants take it in turns to locate and lead the group to a location on the map.
Mimicking wildlife to the finish line
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Animals comes in all shapes and sizes and move in many different ways. In this activity, participants mimic the movement of other animals. A length of racetrack is then set up to find out how long each animal movement takes to reach the finishing line.
Mud Kitchen
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This is an activity about making a mud kitchen and using it to learn about measuring, estimating, basic fraction identification, literacy. Making mud pies and imaginary cooking using natural outdoor materials seems to have always been a part of playing outdoors. It’s a great way to engage with the outdoors and get hands on experience by exploring materials, role playing…
Nature Alphabet
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During outdoor sessions, create letters of the alphabet using found materials. Perhaps a twig is naturally the shape of a letter, or objects are collected and rearranged into the shape of a letter. Allow imaginations to run wild!
Nature’s Opposites
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A descriptive word game that gets participants thinking about adjectives. Nature’s Opposites offers a great opening activity to any literacy-based sessions. Can be easily adapted for younger audiences.