Nature Scavenger Hunt

Today was day one of activities and I was quite pleased! We had a bigger turn out than I expected since I hadn't told anyone but a friend who was coming. I ended up having about 12 kids participating in the hunt. I didn't get nearly enough pictures as I was helping one of the smaller participants since she couldn't read.

What I did was make up a fun scavenger hunt list. You can get the list here.  I made it two on one page to save paper since I was anticipating at least 4 kids.

Then I took out the pack of markers I had bought for a later project and gave each kid a marker and a list. I also gave them all a brown paper lunch bag to hold their finds since I had them on hand, but reusing a plastic shopping bag would work nice too. I then stapled their lists to their bags and off we went in search of nature.

We stayed together as a group since we were going near the woods and I was the only adult. The amount of team work that came out of the kids was surprising. They were much less competitive than I expected.

 

The older and taller kids were helping the smaller and younger kids get things from up in trees that they couldn't get themselves. Here they were getting berries.

 



I was also amazed that with a little searching every child found a feather, including this fantastic specimen.

 

All in all the kids had a great time. The team that had finished first gets mini candy bars if they come back for mini golf tomorrow.

 

 

 

The girls got a special treat after the scavenger hunt. I was watching them until their mom came home and we had a girls vs. boys Nerf Gun war. It was exhausting and fun!

 

Grand Total = FREE!

 

 

That's all until tomorrow's mini golf championship. Better pictures tomorrow. I'm new to this whole remembering there is a camera to use stuff.