Do you have adventurous kids? I do, in fact they are far braver than me. Nothing seems to scare my lads and there is nothing they enjoy more than an outdoor adventure. But the trick to getting your kids outdoors is to turn outdoor activities into outdoor adventures!
50 Outdoor Activities for kids
- Tree climbing
- Hill rolling
- Fossil hunting
- Den building
- Skim a stone
6. Have a picnic
7. Go fishing or crabbing
8. Rockpooling
9. Fly a kite
10. Make a windsock
11. Go on a Minibeast hunt
12. Collect leaves and roll in them!
13. Make mud pies
14. Make a boat and float it on a river or pond
15. Go fruit picking
16. Go bird watching
17. Camp in the garden
18. Have a teddybears picnic
19. Make a hammock
20. Build a super large sandcastle
21. Surf the waves or at least jump them!
22. Play pooh sticks
23. Build a dam
24. See how many times you can skip
25. Feed the ducks
26. Make a flower chain
27. Star gaze
28. Have a scavenger hunt
29. Have a water fight
30. Paddle in the sea
31. Paddle in the river or beck
32. Collect shells
33. Go on a slip and slide
34. Go on a hike
35. Grow it, eat it
36. Have a campfire
37. Make damper bread
38. Roast marshmallows or make smores
39. Learn to Hula hoop
40. Make stone faces
41. Visit a farm
42. Climb rocks
43. Dance in the rain
44. Make a bug hotel
46. Try geocaching
48. Paint outdoors
49. Escape a maze
50. Use stepping stones to cross a river
It really doesn’t matter what time of the year it is you can even have fun outdoors in the winter.
Go on an adventure with the Brave Bones Club
Steve Backshall, wildlife expert, presenter of TV’s Deadly 60 and my favorite on Strictly Come Dancing has teamed up with the Brave Bones Club to encourage and inspire you to go on an adventure. In partnership with Cheestrings and Yollies, Brave Bones Club have put together a competition where the prize is an adventure of your own with the ultimate adventurer. You’ll get to spend four amazing days exploring the outdoors with Steve and star in brand-new Brave Bones Club video series and make the MiniMads (and me) very, very envious!
To enter visit either First News or Fun Kids and watch the video below, where Steve explains more about what you’ll be doing in the big outdoors if you win:
Thanks for including our stone faces Jen – lovely round up! x
The PERFECT list for summer!
A great list of adventures for kids!
It’s funny because mine are also braver than me! But one of these jumped out at me, and that was fruit picking, as my daughter said to me only the other day that she’d really love to do this (not that adventurous I know, but still fun, and even I’d be up for it!)
I love your posts like this! It’s an automatic “Pin it”!
We have never made a windsock or bird feeder! .. must try harder from this mummy!
These are all great ideas for getting kids outside. I’ve found that it gets harder as they get older though!
I used to and still do, love going crabbing x
So many lovely activities that i fondly remember from my own childhood and some great new ideas to try out with my own children xx
What a fantastic list, I was going down it ticking it all off in my head.
What a brilliant list! Bring on the summer of fun!
What a fab list, fruit picking is high on our list for June! F loves PYO strawberries. x
So many fantastic ideas! Dancing in the rain gets my vote! xx
We have just joined the brave bones club – looks lots of fun
Lots of great ideas. Love the pic with the carrots!
What a great list Jen, some ideas are so simple but you know kids will get really into them. I used to love making mudpies
Making mud pies was a favourite of mine when I was younger 🙂
So many great ideas! I think we’ll print this off and I’ll get the kids to choose things from it throughout the holidays, thanks!