2024 Adventure Challenge in Wisconsin State Parks Ages 3-5
Tailored Adventures for All Ages and Groups
Make a Leaf Rubbing
Leaf Rubbing Make colorful crayon rubbings of different kinds of leaves to come up with a beautiful nature-inspired picture. (How to link)
Animal Clues in Trees
Explore around trees for clues that animals lived in the tree: bird nests, squirrel nests, holes in the tree. Now, draw a picture of the tree and clues that animals once lived in the tree.
Flying Leaves
With an adult, gather a hand full of tree leaves with wings: Maple leaves, Norway Mapples, and Box Elder leaves. Throw them into the air and watch how far they travel.
Cloud Pictures
In the sky, clouds soar and play, Four types to brighten our day. Cumulus, fluffy and white, Like cotton balls, a charming sight. Stratus, flat sheets up above, Like blankets made by clouds with love. Alto, droplets floating high, Sometimes ice drops fill the sky. Cirrus, wisps so white and grand, Rain-free days at their command.
Can you find clouds that look like an animals?
First Star I see
Watch and listen to the kid's book, How Many Stars in the Sky? Click here to listen to the YouTube video.
With an adult, gather a blanket and a nice dark spot in the campground. Who can spot the first star?
Outdoor Lookers
Create a pair of Outdoor Lookers. Click this link for help.
Link to a YouTube Video
Looking through your outdoor lookers, find a spider web, a nest, a leaf, and a flower.
Camping Fun
What activities do you love to do while camping?
On a piece of paper, draw and color your campsite or a camping scene.
Fun, Wild, Shapes
Look around the park or your campsite. Take a walk with an adult.
Look for hidden shapes in leaves, animal homes, trees, footprints, and every wild thing you see.
Challenge
On a sheet of paper, draw the things you see around the park that has the same shape.
Challenge
Take a short walk with an adult watching for birds. Do you see birds flying? Are some birds just sitting on a branch? Are any birds eating?
Have an adult read the fun poem below. Can you draw and color the birds you saw, or the birds you imagined as the poem was being read?
Take a Bird Walk
Birdies in the sky so high,
Feathers shimmer, catching sunlight like a pie.
Up they go, and down they swoop,
Singing silly songs in a chirpy loop.
Little beaks that peck and preen,
Finding yummy seeds, a tasty scene!
Sunflower seeds and juicy worms,
Birdie bellies never get the grumps!
Branches strong, a leafy seat,
Resting tired wings, oh so sweet.
Swinging slow, then off they prance,
Birdies love to do a silly dance!
Flapping wings and happy chirps,
Twirling around on tiny limbs.
Birdies dance the whole day through,
Sharing sunshine, me and you!
So next time you see a birdie fly,
Wave hello and watch them high.
Singing, eating, perching, fun,
Birdies make the day well-done!
Challenge
Grab your favorite box of crayons or colored pencils and head outside for an adventure. Just like a nature detective, use your eyes to search for amazing color matches everywhere you go.
Colorful Nature
A cardinal sings in a scarlet dawn,
While a bluebird's melody takes flight.
A peacock struts, tail ablaze with morn,
And a ladybug soars on wind's delight.
A flamingo dances on pink lagoon,
A zebra gallops in black and white.
A golden retriever chases moon,
And a firefly winks in starry night.
A green snake coils in dappled shade,
A hummingbird beats wings like ruby flame.
A snowy owl on silent blade,
And a tiger, striped with jungle's claim.
From ocean depths, a sapphire fin,
A scarlet macaw on rainforest bough.
A butterfly, a painted skin,
Dancing colors whisper how
Each creature wears a vibrant hue,
A brushstroke bold on nature's canvas wide.
So let us learn, both me and you,
To paint our lives with rainbow's pride.