THINGS TO DO AND MAKE

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🐌 Collect garden snails. Draw a start and finish line. Have a snail race.

Wash hands when done.

🪁Make & decorate a kite to fly.

🦜Empty the hair from your hairbrushes into the garden.

(Cut up first). Watch to see which birds collect it as nesting material.

Identify & name them.

🐜Locate busy ants on a sunny day.

What are they doing? Where are they going? How do they communicate?

Sprinkle bread crumbs.

Observe what happens.

🦋Scatter some flower seeds in the soil (pop a packet in your supermarket trolley) to attract pollinators into your garden.

🪲 Place a piece of thick cardboard in your garden with a rock or brick on top. Leave for a week. Lift and check who has ‘moved in’.

🐞Go on a bug hunt.

Use water and a paintbrush on the pavement to paint the insects you find. Research how to construct a backyard bug hotel to house beneficial insects in your garden.

🦎Find a dish for water, some rocks to sun on, bark & leaves to attract insects and native grasses to make a ‘ lizard lounge’ in your garden ready for spring.

🐨Go for a walk in the bush or a local nature reserve. Locate a new native animal in the wild. Give it a name.

💦Play floating and sinking games with the natural objects you collect on walks, such as seed pods, rocks, feathers & leaves. Return natural items to where you found them.

📷Photograph /record special sights and sounds you notice/hear in nature on your walks around the block. Repeat in a week. What is the same? What is different?

So many seasonal changes occurring right now.

🎨Paint or draw a picture of your favourite sighting in nature. Oil pastels on coloured paper or chalk on pavement looks great (might be an outline of your own shadow)

📖Join a local online library. Read a book together, to learn more about your local flora & fauna.

☀️Prepare a meal together to eat outside in the sunshine on a picnic rug.

☁️Lie back on a picnic rug and look up at the clouds. How many special shapes can you find in the clouds? A dog, dinosaur, a duck or maybe a dragon?

🤸‍♂️Talk about the games you played as a child, chasey, hide-and-seek, hopscotch, jacks, hoops, marbles, skipping, clapping rhymes, strings, mud pies, cubbies, chess, others?

Teach your children these fun past-times.

🐶Pamper your pets.

Have a doggy day spa. ‘Renovate’ their living space, tidy their toys.

Teach your pets to do a new trick or obey a command. Play ‘hide and seek’ with treats.

Paint a portrait of your pets.

💐Write a cheerful note to lonely neighbours and pop in their mailbox with a hand picked posy or home baked treat.

Ride bikes or scooters on a ‘delivery mission’.