We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
We love teaching and making resources to promote enjoyment, motivation, and understanding for children and teachers with a particular passion for learning outside the classroom.
Get your students creativity flowing with this simple outdoor art activity where students will fill the different shapes using different items. This resource contains 8 different shapes with a variety of items required to fill each one.
This is a lovely activity to do on a sunny day, allowing students to explore the different materials to create their piece of art.
Encourage students to take their time, thinking carefully about the different colored and sized items they’re using.
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Colors are all around us in nature so why not head outside and explore them with your students. This is a simple and fun activity where they complete the table by finding items for each of the different colors.
This is great to be used for filler activities, brain breaks, or home learning. This resource contains two levels of differentiation.
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A great FREE activity for Halloween, a topic on African tribes, or just for fun, this mask activity will let your class’ imagination run wild. After completing the design sheet then choosing and cutting out a template they will head outside to find natural materials that they’ll use to create their mask.
Sticking the natural materials onto the mask is a great temporary solution for this activity, however if you want them to last longer it is a good idea to then laminate the masks.
Resources needed:
Design sheet
Crayons
Templates
Scissors
Glue
Stapler (optional)
Laminator (optional)
-Outdoor space with
natural materials
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This is a great challenge to set as home learning, use for distance learning, or as a home holiday project. It will get your students outdoors and exploring and enjoying the nature around them.
For this activity students must try to complete the photo challenge by getting a photo of all the things specified on the worksheet.
There are a few ways you can get them to complete the challenge.
Tick box: Get them to tick the challenges off as they complete them on the worksheet.
Photo book: Get them to print out and complete their very own photo book.
Google Slides: Get them to upload their photos on to the Google Slides photo challenge. Click here to get access to the Google Slides.
Check out our Outdoor Maths Bundle
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Whether you are looking at sculptures in art or would like a fun STEM outdoor activity, this creative session is perfect for your class. Following certain criteria, students will design and build a sculpture using only natural materials before going on to evaluate the success of their sculpture, thinking about what they could do to improve it. This activity works great in small teams or pairs.
This pack contains 11 differentiated sets of criteria to follow, each with a design and evaluation sheet.
Resources needed:
Sculpture design and evaluation sheets.
An area of outdoor space with a variety of natural materials.
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This is a fun activity to get your little ones counting to 10 as well as being creative while exploring the natural world.
They will collect a specified number of leaves and stick them on a piece of paper to make their artistic master piece.
You can then laminate these and they can be used as their very own visual number line. For best results print the sheets onto A3 paper and get the children to collect small leaves so they easily fit into the boxes.
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This is a great challenge to set as home learning, use for distance learning, or as a home holiday project. It will get your students outdoors and exploring and enjoying the nature around them.
For this activity students must try to complete the photo challenge by getting a photo of all the things specified on the worksheet.
This is a free version of a bigger resource. For more photo challenges and the digital version check out the other resource in our store.
Check out our full photo challenge pack here.
For this activity students will head outside and explore the natural colors around them. They will use natural objects to color the Christmas themed pictures by rubbing them onto the paper. Encourage students to experiment with different items. It can be more effective if the students crush the natural items before doing the rubbing.
This is a lovely activity for the end of term and can make a great Christmas themed display for your classroom. You could also make their rubbings into Christmas cards to send home.
Check out our Christmas Literacy Challenge here.
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