Kids Activities
Backyard Nature Scavenger Hunt
Activity brief Ages 5–12
Rain or shine, the backyard is full of small treasures. This activity takes about an hour and needs nothing but a paper bag, a pencil, and sharp eyes.
The list
Find each of these (look, don’t destroy — leave living things where they live):
- Something smaller than your fingernail
- Something older than you
- Two leaves from different trees that look nothing alike
- Something an insect made
- Something perfectly round
- Something that has a smell
- Something the wind moved
- Something the exact colour of your eyes
- Something soft and something rough
- One thing you can’t explain
Then
Pick the strangest thing you found and sketch it. Underneath, write two or three sentences: what do you think it is, and how do you think it got there?
There are no wrong answers — the best explanations are the brave ones.