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Nature Color Match
Nature Color Match
Materials Needed:
Paint Chips OR coloring materials & paper
How to Play:
Grab some leftover paint chips from the home improvement store and head outside to match the colors on them with something in nature. You can make your own color chips by coloring with crayons or markers on index cards and cutting them out. Try to match the most unusual color from your chips with one in nature. See if you can find all the colors of the rainbow or different shades of yellow
Nature Memory Game
Nature Memory Game
Materials Needed:
Nature items, small containers with lids
How to Play:
Collect 2 each of 6 different items in nature and place them in small containers with lids. Collect flowers, rocks, acorns, shells, etc. You can also collect scents by putting essential oils on cotton balls. Scramble the containers and open them until you match all 6 items.
Busy Beavers
Busy Beavers
Materials Needed:
Sticks of various sizes
How to Play:
This is a classic relay race game where two or more teams are racing to collect as many sticks for their beaver lodge as possible in the time they are given. Have each set of team members spread out along given routes. Each team has a pile of sticks at the beginning of the race, and is racing to move the sticks one at a time to the other end of the relay race. The sticks are passed on from one beaver family member to another and then piled up to make a "lodge." For a competitive spin on the game, the first beaver team to build their lodge wins. For a cooperative spin, when all the lodges are built, everyone wins.
Nature Scategories
Materials Needed: None
How to Play:
Everyone gets in a circle. Someone comes up with a category (example: types of trees). Each person has ten seconds to come up with an answer that fits into that category. Going around the circle each person says their answer when it's their turn. Each answer may only be called out once. The group counts down for each player. If they can't come up with an answer then they are out of the game. The last player remaining wins.
Nature I Spy
Materials Needed: None
Take a Nature walk around MTES or on Patriot's Path. Quiz your students by having them guess what you are spying. Start with “I spy something green” and see how long you can keep the game going and what interesting things you can spy. Students can take turns being the 'spy'!
Listen Up!
Listen Up!
Find a spot to sit and relax. Have everyone close their eyes and silently listen to the world around them. Have everyone open their eyes and go around in a circle, sharing what they heard. Talk about each sound and what you think it might be. Draw or write down what was heard.
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