Animal and Wildlife Activities for children
20 Nature-related Beach Activities for the Whole Family
There are plenty of inspiring activities you can do at the beach to get you closer to nature. Are your favourite on the list? Read more
Free Animal Bookmarks for Kids
Download and print these animal bookmarks for your children. There’s a seal, lady beetle, koala and turtle. Read more
Make a Bird Nest out of Recycled Materials
Making a life-sized nest out of recycled materials, doesn’t just lend itself to a crafty afternoon but it also stimulates learning through play at its best! Read more
Animal Quiz fun for the lunch box
A fortnightly list of questions that add a bit of animal fun to your child’s lunch box. Read more
Animal Taste Game
Have you ever blind folded your child and let them guess food by using only their taste buds? Here’s a new twist. Can your child taste the food and guess the animal it’s associated with? Read more
Wildlife Themed Terrarium
You may not be able to afford a large set up with animals but you can make a fun little wildlife themed terrarium instead! Read more
Easy Made Animal Feet
If you’ve ever wanted to give sewing a go, making these animal feet slippers are a nice easy project for you to try. They also encourage animal play in the cutest kind of way! For instructions read more
Do you let your Children Act for Wildlife?
If, during play time, your child expresses a desire to help an endangered species, remember that children can inspire great action if given the opportunity! Read more
The Benefit of Fish as Pets
There have been many studies on the positive benefits of children having pets. Find out how having fish as pets can help develop your child. Read more
Animal Grass Heads
A fun twist on an old favourite. Here’s how to make a caterpillar, echidna/hedgehog and a dinosaur! Read more
Ten Benefits of Taking your Children Bushwalking
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! Could you guess the ten benefits of taking your children bushwalking? Read More
Wombat Play in Five Learning Ways
When a child is interested in an animal, it’s an invitation for great learning and fun play! Take a look at our journey where we learnt about wombats through play. Read More
Animal Fun with Paper Straws
Just for fun or a special occasion, these add on for paper straws makes for more dramatic drinking. They come as a printable with shark, warthog, snake and lion. Read More
Animal Pastry Pies
Add a little animal fun to your food by adding animal shaped fun to the tops. See how to make these pies by clicking here
Ten Tips to Improve your visit to the Zoo
Visiting the zoo is a wildlife-rich experience for children but believe it or not, there are simple ways you can improve your visit Read more…
Explore Predator Plants
Do you remember from your childhood, those moments when something in nature captivated you? Perhaps it was the first time you saw a caterpillar munching away at a leaf or a rose plant covered in aphids. Well, children will be captivated by this next activity. Read more…
Animal Touch: Get more Hands-on this year!
So, parents, I have a challenge for you and your children this new year. I’d like you relish in one of the most important senses – touch. Go out of your way to touch an animal that you’ve wanted to touch for as long as you can remember. Read more…
Animal Play Dough Play
When the children are bored this holiday season, consider making play dough and then crafting it into animals. Pair your creative play dough critters with play activities afterwards, and you’ll provide a good hour or two of occupied fun! Read more…
How to Build a Bird Hide for Wildlife Observation and Photography Fun!
If you live in more of a suburban to rural area and have birds a plenty or a regular wildlife visitor to your backyard, building a bird hide is a perfect activity for you and your family. Read more…
12 Things to take for a Wildlife-rich Holiday
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! Read more…
Boo and the Big Storm (Book review)
There’s something about big, beautiful, innocent eyes that makes me go all gooey inside, and the book I laid eyes on last week made me do just that! Read more…
Magic Wildlife Rice
This magical rice play is so easy to do, you’ll love it! All you need is some coloured rice and a glue stick and your ready to go! Read more…
How to make Animal Bean Bags
This is a very basic template to help you make these Animal Bean bags for your children. It’s really simple. Decorate it with some buttons and viola, fun bean bags or even a heat pack for children - animal themed! Read more…
Make a Wildlife Video
Bring your home-made craft to life by making a wildlife video. This tutorial tells you how to do it and you can see our finished butterfly lifecycle video too! Read more…
Hop, Stick and Jump into Animal Classification
Really fun ways to introduce animal classification to children! Read more…
Fur Feather and Scale Activities
A nice number of fur, feather and scale activities for children. Animal body covering rubbings, collages and investigation. Read more…
Teach your Child to be Snake Safe
This is a play-based and snake friendly way to help teach your children to be snake safe. Don’t scare your children to keep them safe, play with them instead! Read more…
Give your Kids a Camera to ger Closer to Nature
Giving your child a camera in a wildlife-rich environment (like a zoo or duck park) allows them to explore the wonders of nature around them, focus on animals they hadn’t noticed before and develops wildlife appreciation. Read more…
Buil
d Your Wild Self
This website will engage children in a land of make-believe, allowing them to become a new kind of wild creature by adding their different animal features to a boy or girl body (website review). Read more…
Koala Activities for Save the Koala Month
Eight koala activities you can share with your children during Save the Koala Month in September. Read more…
Recycled CD Critters
Recycle old CDs into beautiful wildlife garden/decoration hangers. Read more…
Hunting for Antlions
Hunting for antlions can be fascinating and by taking the time to watch them you can learn what they eat, how they capture their prey and how they make their trap. But best of all, you can hold them too! Read more…
Wildlife Movement Dice: Draw out your Inner Animal
Jump, hop, slither and fly like an animal. Don’t forget the noises too! Have some fun finding your inner animal through this wildlife movement dice (free printable). Download and find out more here.
Wildlife Pikelets
Great for recognising animal shapes, a nice afternoon tea or party idea plus kids love them! Read more about how to make them here.
No Bread! Feed Ducks Gourmet Duck Food Instead
Many people don’t know that feeding bread to ducks is bad for them. Try this healthy recipe instead! Click here to read more.
How to Make a Spider Web Obstacle Course
I’ve wanted to make a spider web obstacle course for quite some time but I kept pushing it to the bottom of the list because I wasn’t sure how to tackle it. Now that spring is here, I decided it was the perfect opportunity to spend more time in the backyard. Read more…
Camping at Home, Wildlife Education and Stuffed Toy Fun
Is it too cold to go camping? Why not set up at home and use your stuffed toys for wildlife spotting during bush walks and night spotting. Teach your child about diurnal and nocturnal wildlife too! Read more…
Visiting the Museum
Museums are no longer dead boring with interactive displays becoming more common. Have a look at what we did at our museum. Read more…
Lay a Sheet and Shake a Tree
A fun, simple activity that takes two minutes to prepare but leaves you with an afternoon of bug discovery. Great for all ages. Click here to read more
Chicken Vs the Worm: Worm Farming
Deciding between getting worms or chickens? Read this first. I pitched them against each other in the pet stakes, which do you think came out on top? Find out more by clicking here!
Seven Homely Ways to have Fun with Wildlife Caves
Sometimes it’s not easy to get out into a wildlife habitat when a child’s interest is piqued. There’s always great alternatives. This is one of these moments where a cave exploration was too hard, unless we did it from home! Read more…
Top Ten Dinosaur Activities 4 Kids
Toddlers love dinosaurs and having a whole bunch of dino activities up your sleeve is essential. Make dinosaur fossils, play with dinosaurs and get into some paleontologist play! Click here to read more.
Eight Great Ways to Appreciate Snakes
It’s starting to warm up here in Australia and that means that snakes are becoming more active. Don’t all shudder when I say that! I love snakes and believe they are very misunderstood creatures. Here’s what you can do to appreciate snakes. Read more…
Attracting Moths – Replace Beauty for the Beast
Many parents will point out a colourful butterfly flitting past on its daily pollination rounds, but moths often fly by unnoticed. Why not attract some moths and see how amazing they can really be? Click here to read more.
Top Wildlife Songs 4 Kids
This is a list of some wonderful wildlife Songs. Watch and sing along to them, they may just become your favourites! Are yours on the list? Click here to find out.
Puppet Play Part One – Australian Animals
Learning about wildlife through play is so much fun. Print out these free Australian finger puppets (free printable) and get playing! To read and download the puppet printable click here.
What’s Slimey, Tiny and Glow out of its Hiney?
Visiting a glow worm cave is a fascinating experience. Firstly, it allows children to get up-close to the little larvae and see them in proportion (I honesty thought they were the size of an earthworm); it encourages wonderful scientific discussions about their glowing butt and it allows children to experience an unusual type of wildlife species. Read more…
Does your Child have an Animalistic Sense of Smell?
We may not be on top of the best smellers list but we can still pretend like we are. Kids can have so much fun smelling what’s in the jar and guessing what animal would eat the food. Click here to read more.
Learn to Bellow like a Koala
So many children can moo like a cow, ssss like a snake and hoot like an owl but not many (if any) can bellow like a koala. Why not watch this video tutorial with your child and give it a go?! Click here to find out how.
Wildlife Hand Art
We came across some beautiful hand painting by Guido Daniele and couldn’t help but try our own. Check them out, his work is stunning! Click here to see this post.
Minibeats: Ten Bugs, One Tree
A little creature reminded me to tell you to look at the bark of a tree for signs of life. Here you will find creatures galore and learning aplenty. Read more…
There’s a Sea in my Playroom
Sometimes even TV time can start a month-long process of planning, creating and pretending. We had so much fun creating our underwater land. There were mermaid too! Read more…
Raising Tadpoles into Fine Young Frogs
Learning about amphibians is so interesting. Watching them transform in front of your eyes is even better. Read more…
Wildlife Holiday Fun
Our family took part in many unplanned wildlife activities and learnt that spontaneous moments can be just as memorable as the planned ones. Read more…
The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys
Find out what we thought about Amazing Live Sea Monkeys. Read more…
Book Review – Fox and Fine Feathers
I beautiful book with stunning illustrations that camouflage the wildlife. Read more…
Wildlife Footprint Fun in Five Ways
Use these five footprint templates in five different ways. Click here to read more.
Phylomon Vs. Pokemon
Pokémon was a hit with children all over the world. They fell in love with the out-of-this-world creatures and their connections with humans. There’s just one problem. Children know more about Pokémon creatures than our real wildlife species. Read more…
Ten Activities to Celebrate National Bilby Day
Share these ten bilby activities with your children to encourage awareness of the Bilby for National Bilby Day ( free bilby mask printable). To download and read more click here.
Frog Mask Fun
Download this frog mask and hop about the place. Children love acting like frogs. Read more…
Cement Scavengers: The Ant Experiment
What food do ants like best? Do this experiment and find out. Free experiment template included. Read more…
Camping to get Closer to Nature
Imagine the wildlife you see when you go camping! Going camping get you and your family close to nature and close to wildlife. Read more…
Five Wildlife Gifts 4 Kids
Do you have a child that loves wildlife? Why not check out these gift suggestions. Read more…
Why I showed my Four Year Old a Dead Sea Turtle
Nearing World Animal Day, we couldn’t have had a more stunning wildlife experience during our holiday on Moreton Bay. But while out exploring wildlife, we came across a sight that was sad and startling for Miss Possum and I didn’t shield her eyes but instead helped to open them. Read more…
Frog Egg Craft
Who would have thought you could have so much fun with bubbles! Read more…
Go Batty – Bat Activity
Have you ever watched a bat colony? You can learn so much about them just by watching them for 30 minutes. Read more…
Swap the Bunny for the Bilby this Easter
You read right. This Easter, swap that little white ball of fluff and insert the dull grey rodent-like marsupial with its sharp teeth that rips apart flesh. Sounds like the stuff nightmares are made of, right? Read more…
My Child has a Fear of Birds
A child of a wildlife education officer has a fear of birds. Laughable right? Well it happened and this is how we minimised the fear. Read more…
Embrace the Common
When I list birds like the ibis, crow, magpie and plover, most people would know what they all have in common – annoying habits and behaviours that irritate the community. But these common birds can teach us a lot (free printable puppets). Read more…
Wildlife Career Information for Children and Teenagers
What can you do to help your child get into a job with wildlife? Read more…
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