Happy Earth Day 2013! While I believe Earth Day should be everyday, I do like being able to highlight easy ways to bring a little more green into your life. Getting kids outside to appreciate nature will make them good stewards of the Earth as they grow up. If they don’t get out and experience nature, they won’t be that motivated to help protect it.
Here’s my list of 25 Free Outdoor Activities for Kids, all battery-free!
- Bring an easel outside to paint or color on
- Bubbles
- Chalk drawings
- Backyard baseball
- Soccer practice
- Enjoy a picnic lunch
- Swing set time
- Create an obstacle course
- Bug hunting
- Bird watching
- Identify plants and flowers
- Plant seeds
- Nature walk
- Wagon ride
- Neighborhood bike ride
- Sandbox castles
- Squirt bottle water drawings
- Bring musical instruments outside for a jam session
- Collect rocks to paint
- Hopscotch
- Take the dolls for a walk in their stroller or grocery cart
- Visit a duck pond
- Paint fences or walls with water
- Go puddle jumping when the opportunity arises
- Lay on a towel and look at the starts together
Which is your favorite activity to do with your kids? Anything else to add to the list?
I’m sharing this post with the Tuesday Baby Link Up and Your Green Resource
We’ve done a lot of these, although our babies aren’t quite big enough yet for some. But I can hardly wait until we can have an outside musical jam session. I think that would be totally awesome. And I hadn’t thought of #25 for some reason. I’ll put that on the list!
Stopping by from the Tuesday Baby Link Up!
Thanks Melissa! I like taking some of the noise out of the house, at least for a little while. ~Emily
Love this, Emily! I’m going to feature this post on tomorrow’s Tuesday Baby Link Up. Thanks for linking up!
Thanks Charise!
What a great list, Emily! Thank you so much for sharing with the Tuesday Baby Link Up community! If Charise wasn’t already featuring this one today, I would be. 🙂