20 Things To Do on a Walk

Walking is a wonderful activity to do together as a family all year round. Everyone gets fresh air and exercise, along with valuable time together. However, I know from experience children can sometimes find it boring, but it really doesn’t take much to turn a walk into something fun and magical. Here are my suggestions for things to do on a walk with your children.

1. How many different things can you find coloured green (or yellow, or brown etc…)?
2. How many things can you find that begin with the letter ‘S’ or ‘T’ or ‘L’ etc…?
3. How many different creatures/bugs can you find?
4. How many different leaves can you find?
5. Can you find something of every colour (of the rainbow)?
6. How many different sounds can you hear?
7. Walk and balance on a log.
8. Climb a tree.
9. Jump in muddy puddles.
10. Play with leaves (in autumn).
11. Collect different types of leaves to take home to do leaf rubbings or art projects.
12. Take a camera for kids to take photos.
13. Make a scavenger hunt of things for kids to find eg feather, leaves, stick, pinecone, something rough, smooth, round, pretty, noisy etc.
14. Go on a bear hunt.
15. How many different birds can you see?
16. Build a den.
17. Hunt for fairies.
18. Hunt for dinosaurs.
19. Play with a stick…make a stickman, a walking stick or anything a child thinks of.
20. Imagination…give your child a theme such as trolls, giants, monsters, space, bugs, animals and watch their imaginary play grow.

To be honest, the list of ways to make a walk enjoyable is endless, nature has a fantastic way of enticing children into having fun and using their imaginations. We have had so many walks that started off as a plain old boring walk, but turned into something completely magical. For example our rocket find and our fairy walk. All you need is a spark of inspiration, some fresh air and hey presto magic can be found anywhere!

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