Discover Nature Science Series
Let's explore! A dozen adventures await as you follow step-by-step activities for fun, inquiry-based exploration.
Join MPT camp counselor Krissy this week, and investigate nature and science in your own backyard.
Create a Nature Obstacle Course
Build a nature obstacle course outside and practice the skills that help you be a better nature explorer. You'll jump, throw, balance and bend, and have lots of nature-iffic fun!
Camp Out With Newspaper Forts
Check out this simple tutorial on how to build forts for kids out of newspaper.
Make a Paper Flower Garden
Have fun identifying, copying, and creating patterns to design a paper flower garden at home.
Is It an Insect?
Identify insects in your neighborhood and then create a field guide with this activity from Elinor Wonders Why.
Take Flight with a DIY Kite
Building a kite is a great way to explore wind and how it moves things.
Play Velcro Bullseye and Ball Game
Make a game that is like darts, only safer, that will help your child work on hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.
Paper Plate Flying Discs
Learn how to make a flying disc or frisbee out of paper plates.
Pool Noodle Obstacle Course
This easily customizable pool noodle obstacle course is perfect for a kid’s play date, party or a family time in the yard.
Make a Minature Garden
Learn how seeds and plants grow, and build observation skills with this hands-on garden activity. First create your miniature garden and then track plant growth with the plant journal.
Host a Family Olympics
Help your child create a Home Olympics! Try to hold your event outside, or put mats on the floor indoors. Remind children that the object is not to win, but to have FUN!
Create a Literacy Obstacle Course
In this obstacle course, kids will strengthen one of their most important muscles – their brain – as they engage in alphabetizing, rhyming, spelling, and movement.