Today's idea: Sensory Walk!
Are you ready to go on an outdoor adventure using all five of your amazing senses? Choose one sense at a time to focus on. You can decide when you are ready to switch to a new sense. If you'd like, you can bring a clipboard and paper to draw, mark or write what you hear, see, feel, taste, and smell.
Tune in with your ears and listen to the musical orchestra of the natural world around! Move with your fox feet and see how many sounds you can hear. Perhaps you'd like to stop walking and close your eyes to listen.
Look high and low with those eagle eyes of yours and notice all the big and all the little things around. How many colors do you see? How many critters? Notice shapes and textures. Are the trees still or are they moving in the wind? Where are those ants going?
Let's use our hands to touch and feel the natural world around! Perhaps you pick up a rock. Is it smooth, bumpy, cool, warm? How about the bark of a tree or the new leaves growing on a twig? Maybe you'd like to take off your shoes for a moment and feel the grass, moss or dirt beneath your toes!
There are lots of new spring smells out there in the natural world right now. How many can you notice? Are they sweet, musty, earthy? Put your nose right up to a tree or a leaf. How would you describe the smell? Get down low to the ground like our canine friends and see where your nose leads you!
Have you ever tasted the fresh dew on a pine needle or a leaf? How about a dandelion or a violet? Do you have a favorite taste in nature?
We would love to hear about what you discover on your Sensory Walk!
Your Learning Outside Instructors
Are you ready to go on an outdoor adventure using all five of your amazing senses? Choose one sense at a time to focus on. You can decide when you are ready to switch to a new sense. If you'd like, you can bring a clipboard and paper to draw, mark or write what you hear, see, feel, taste, and smell.
Tune in with your ears and listen to the musical orchestra of the natural world around! Move with your fox feet and see how many sounds you can hear. Perhaps you'd like to stop walking and close your eyes to listen.
Look high and low with those eagle eyes of yours and notice all the big and all the little things around. How many colors do you see? How many critters? Notice shapes and textures. Are the trees still or are they moving in the wind? Where are those ants going?
Let's use our hands to touch and feel the natural world around! Perhaps you pick up a rock. Is it smooth, bumpy, cool, warm? How about the bark of a tree or the new leaves growing on a twig? Maybe you'd like to take off your shoes for a moment and feel the grass, moss or dirt beneath your toes!
There are lots of new spring smells out there in the natural world right now. How many can you notice? Are they sweet, musty, earthy? Put your nose right up to a tree or a leaf. How would you describe the smell? Get down low to the ground like our canine friends and see where your nose leads you!
Have you ever tasted the fresh dew on a pine needle or a leaf? How about a dandelion or a violet? Do you have a favorite taste in nature?
We would love to hear about what you discover on your Sensory Walk!
Your Learning Outside Instructors
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