Want to get your kids outside in the fresh autumn air, but aren’t quite sure how to coax them away from the lure of computers, video games and DVD’s? How about having a nature scavenger hunt with them? Kids love finding things, they love games, they love hunting as well as collecting so getting them involved with nature will be a breeze once you make it a mission for them to complete!

Save your egg cartons to use for the hunt, either one per child, or one per team. Then select twelve different items that your children should go out and look for, these can be specific items like a stone, or a twig, or you can get a little more creative by giving your child(ren) categories instead of specific items, like something soft, red, old, delicate, and so forth.

You can decorate the egg cartons with your child, and write what they are hunting for in each little section of the egg carton so that they have it for reference. Once everything is ready all you need to do is turn your children loose on the outdoors and see what they can find.

When they show you their treasures, you will have opportunity after splendid opportunity to talk about nature and how important it is that we help to take care of it, with your child. They will be so caught up in the thrill of the hunt they won’t even realize that they are learning, and by the time that they do realize that they are learning, they won’t care because of all of the fun they are having!

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