Find adventure and encourage bonding with these easy, outdoor activities designed to connect your tiny explorer with nature. Bring your family together, stimulate awareness and curiosity in your child, and feel the benefits and calming pace offered by the natural world. Each activity can be done with ages 18 months and up. All you need is a little sense of pint-sized adventure!
Bug Eyes: Get on your bellies and study the terrain from a bug's eye view! Pick one small area of the yard to explore with a hand lens. Look for bugs under rocks and watch them with a hand lens.
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Rocky Puppy: Rock collecting starts early with curious minds. Begin with just collecting in your yard. Move on to arranging rocks by size or color; stack them, make patterns, lines-or better yet, just let your little rock hound arrange those new finds as he pleases. Just remind him that rocks do not like to fly.
Story Time al Fresco: There's nothing like a simple change of scenery to excite the senses. Try story time under the stars for a new twist on old favorites! You could even follow up with sleeping outdoors. From fellow adventurer, Tracy Albrecht
"Pooh Sticks:" An old favorite, inspired of course, by Winnie the Pooh. Gather sticks and drop them in a stream, watch them float away. Even better if you can do it from a small bridge, watching for them to emerge on the other side. Our 3-year old son would do this for hours if we let him.
Hue See That? Another one of our 3-year old's favorites for over a year now. Use colored or construction paper, paint sample strips (we've laminated ours for all of its use), crayons, or the ROYGBIV spectrum to help your child match colors found in your yard. From GreenTeacher
Species Safari: Create your own tiny explorer field guide-keep it simple, for example cut and paste photos/illustrations of bugs or ants, yellow flower, tree, etc. Take your child on a walk around the neighborhood or a nearby nature area and mark off each critter and plant she can find.
Teddy Bear Tracking: Draw or print out a set of 12 paw prints (~3"- 4"); cut out and hang at child level, around your yard or campsite for your toddler to "track" to a teddy bear you've place sitting in a low tree, sturdy bush or other semi-hidden spot for him to find. Delightful fun and a favorite with preschoolers!
The Secret Garden: Choose a place in your yard--under a special bush, at the base of a favorite tree, or even a large planter--where your toddler can create her own unique garden to plant collected rocks, sticks, plastic dinosaurs...anything she wishes that makes it uniquely hers.
Nature Bracelet: Wrap a piece of masking tape to your child's wrist, sticky side up. As you explore, help him attach colorful leaves, flowers, and other interesting discoveries to his bracelet. When done, use scissors to snip off the nature bracelet. Display on a bulletin board, shelf, or wall. From FamilyEducation
Follow the Leader: Start out as the leader and buzz a flower, hop around a tree, step over a rock, flap over to the hose, etc. Then switch to let your little one lead...
Backyard Harvest: If you have any trees with edible fruit, let your little one help you harvest your fresh crop, then share the organic snack! Create a bouquet of garden flowers with your toddler for tonight's center piece (just make sure to watch for poisonous plants or defenses like thorns, spines or burrs). From family.go
Moon Face: Take your child on a moonlight walk in your backyard during the full moon.
Treasure Bucket: Perfect for toddlers who like to collect things...and dump them out only to refill it again. Use a small toy bucket or container they can manage. Collect leaves, rocks, small trash flown in after a windy day, or specially hidden toys. If collecting natural items from your yard, it's a good opportunity to teach the non-removal of things from protected areas. Have them dump their bucket outside, leaving their natural items where "they live." If picking up trash, have them wear gloves, make sure what they're picking up is "safe" and have them empty their buckets in the trash can to teach good environmental habits.
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Christmas Sales DEX Products Sound Sleeper SS-01 Feature
- 24 different sound combinations
- Calms baby to sleep with a wide variety of nature's sounds
- Headphone jack included (headphones not included)
Christmas Sales DEX Products Sound Sleeper SS-01 Overview
Dex Products Sound Sleeper Your baby can't seem to sleep through the night...and neither can you! Doctors recommend a consistent sleep routine for all newborns. To do this, a baby's sleep environment should be peaceful and "noise free." The Sound Sleeper offers 24 natural sound combinations and 10 individual sounds to mask any annoying noises that may wake your baby. Both you and your child will enjoy a longer, more restful sleep. You deserve it. Order the Dex Products Sound Sleeper today!Christmas Sales DEX Products Sound Sleeper SS-01 Specifications
For parents whose vocal cords can’t hold out for 200 rounds of "Hush Little Baby," a sound machine is a must for baby bedtime routines. And the DEX Sound Sleeper is one of the best ones we’ve ever found. This small (6 by 10 by 12 inches), simple device features a high quality speaker, on/off or 60-minute timer switch, volume control, single, combine, or random mode, power adapter capability, headphone jack (headphones not included), and, most spectacularly, 10 sound options which can be combined to make 24 sound combinations altogether.Doctors and sleep experts recommend a consistent, relaxing sleep routine for newborns and older babies. Freeing baby’s sleep environment of jarring or distracting outside noises is an important step in creating a soothing space for sleep. The Sound Sleeper provides just enough peaceful background noise to block household hubbub. Once baby becomes familiar with the sounds of this machine, she’ll probably start yawning the minute she hears it! The Sounds of (Near) Silence
The sounds of Sound Sleeper don’t have to be boring, just relaxing and repetitive. Experiment with the various sounds to find the perfect soporific.
Summer Night
The buzz of peeper frogs and insects is a happy, sleepy, country sound.
Rain
What’s cozier than curling up in bed with a gentle rainstorm pattering outside the window?
Brook
Burble, burble, burble—just don’t try this one when your toddler is potty-training!
Ocean
The deep tranquility of a calm ocean is unmatched for its lulling ability.
Wind
The wind blows quietly in the trees, but you and baby are safe and sound at home.
Womb
The rhythmic swishing sounds of the womb: it’s a natural for soothing baby!
Seagull
Just a few lonely seagull cries, widely spaced.
Bird
Pretty, delicate bird song.
Buoy
The distant ringing of a bell buoy. Great in combination with the Ocean sound.
Thunder
Thunder rumbles, but the storm always stays far off in the distance. Best combined with Rain, of course.
Experiment with the Combine mode to find the perfect sleep-inducing sounds for your baby. We like Brook and Bird, Wind and Thunder, and Ocean and Buoy, but who knows? Maybe the magic combination will be Womb and Seagull!
The power adapter feature of the Sound Sleeper is very handy for everyday use. The ability to leave the sound machine on all night long (or put it on the one-hour timer) is invaluable. Babies are notorious for waking up throughout the night; when they hear the same soothing sounds they fell asleep to, it will be much easier to return to those sweet dreams.--Emilie Coulter
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