There are plenty of inspiring activities you can do at the beach to get you closer to nature. These activities needn’t be done all on one visit, in fact it might work better if you kept to one or two at a time. Having a family goal can make your trip so much more enjoyable (and educational). Search for animals at the [...]
Bush walking (and or hiking) is for all ages, from little babies that can be carried, toddlers who can walk and children and teens that can run! Stephen Kellert (author and Yale professor) said ‘going outdoors (in nature) is the most information rich and stimulating environment children will encounter.’ Just this week, in a radio interview on NPR, he said that ‘children now [...]
Visiting the zoo is a wildlife-rich experience for children but believe it or not, there are simple ways you can improve your visit. 1. Observe I’ve watched many people at zoos. Most see an animal in an enclosure, point at it for about a minute and then move on. You can learn a lot about [...]
Do you want your holiday to be filled with nature and wildlife galore? Bring along your keen eyes and the objects below and you’re bound to see more than you expected! Camera. Most of us always take a camera on our holidays, but don’t forget to keep it on you at all times otherwise you [...]
If I told you that I went camping with three children under four, would you think I was crazy? Ok…maybe don’t answer that! But, it happened and it was the best thing I’ve ever done. It’s so easy to get absorbed in a technologically driven world of computers, television, and smart-phones. We’re so accustomed to [...]
I enjoy watching bats fly over our house at night and I was looking forward to teaching Miss Possum - and you wonderful readers – what we can learn from watching a flying fox colony. Except, when we went to our local park to watch the bats and get some great photos and inspiration for the post, they had left. Every. Single. [...]
I’m not a whole-hearted fan of feeding wildlife, including ducks, but if done the right way, it won’t impact heavily on our native fauna. Activities like feeding ducks creates an important bond between a child and the natural world that stays with them long after the activity is over. Watching the poor little birds at our local [...]
In a previous post about wildlife cave play, I suggested you investigate a wildlife habitat at home if you couldn’t get to one easily. Well, we finally followed up on our cave lesson by visiting a cave; it wasn’t a real cave, but an artificial one. I hope that still counts? It was dark, it [...]
Whenever I mention my childhood escapades of hunting for antlions, many people respond, “What? You hunted for a line of ants?” I’m always surprised at how many people don’t know about them. So, you don’t know what an antlion is? Antlions are the larval stage of the adult form in the family Myrmeleontidae, when ant lions become adults [...]
For many of us, the word museum conjures memories of boredom, silence, dusty stuffed animals and cob-web covered displays. But museums are changing! Yes, they still have static displays, although the museum we visited last week had no dust, no hand prints on glass and no cobwebs. It was immaculate, despite the hoard of school children swarming [...]
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.wildlifefun4kids.com" title="Wildlife Fun 4 Kids"><img src="http://www.wildlifefun4kids.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/New-logo2.png" alt="Wildlife Fun 4 Kids" style="border:none;" /></a></div>
Connect