Leaves, Acorns, and Rocks, Oh My! Building a Nature Collection
Kids Activity for 2-6 year olds

This is a great vacation-memory activity, too. You can collect shells from your trip at the beach or rocks from your camping trip, and then put each collection in its own labeled jar.

- Posted on 03-10-2008

Don't forget to collect things from your vacations as well. My daughter loves to look through her nature box treasures, especially the sea shells that we found on our first trip to the beach.

- Posted on 06-27-2007

You can also stick some of the nature objects into a block of green florist foam.

- Posted on 06-24-2007

I love doing these kinds of simple activities with my kids because it leaves room for the kids to set the pace and help decide how far we go with it. If my kids are really into it, we collect a bunch, talk about the items, etc. If they're not into that day, they wear the basket as a hat or make it part of some other pretend game they want to play along the way and we just enjoy the walk.

- Posted on 06-21-2007

My son loves to collect leaves and to pick flowers

- Posted on 06-12-2007

You could also turn each trip outside into a scavenger hunt.

- Posted on 06-06-2007