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Nature scavenger hunts are a great way to get your kids out of the house and into nature!
It’s a fun activity for your kids, and it will give you the perfect opportunity to teach them about the plants and animals they encounter.
What is nature scavenger art?
Nature scavenger art is when you collect all kinds of things from nature and create art with them.
It will spark your kids’ imagination, and get their creative juices flowing!
Free Printables
I created a bird and a butterfly printable as guides for this nature scavenger art project.
Fall is the best time to do this project, when the leaves have all changed color. But, it can also be done in the Spring and Summer.
Simply go for a walk in your neighborhood and try to find leaves and branches to complete the pictures. Then, come home and either glue or tape them to the paper.
Don’t limit your kids to what are on these printables…challenge them to come up with their own ideas!
Fun facts to share with your kids!
The printables make use of beech, oak, and maple leaves (although other leaves can be substituted if you can’t find these). Here are some fun facts about them to share with your kids:
- Beech trees can live up to 400 years.
- Many animals eat beech nuts, such as raccoons, foxes, opossums, squirrels, chipmunks, deer, mice, rabbits, turkeys, bluejays, woodpeckers, ducks and bears.
- Oak trees have been around for 65 million years.
- Oak trees can live up to 1,000 years.
- Acorns come from oak trees.
- An oak tree usually doesn’t produce acorns until it is 50 years old.
- Maple syrup is made from the sap of sugar, red and black maple trees.
- It takes 40-50 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup.
- The bark of a maple tree is smooth when it’s young, and rough when it’s older.
- Some types of maple trees can be as small as bonsai and others can be as large as 145 feet.
Supplement this activity with books!
It’s always a good idea to supplement learning activities with books, to make connections and to reinforce what they’ve learned.
Check out these books:
I hope your kids enjoy this activity!
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These lessons are great. And our family goes for nature walks all the time. But we live in the desert southwest where there isn’t any oak or maple leaves. We have Predominantly Mulberry trees, Palm trees and mesquite bushes. It would be nice to see lessons that include our region. We always seem to get left out. This is Southwest Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado and California. Thank you
Hi Jaci,
Thanks for the feedback! Sorry the Southwest is underrepresented…I’ll keep that in mind for future posts. 🙂