365 Outdoor Activities

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Gardening Activities

Gardening Art Beanstalk House
Big-Time Composter
Budding Scientists
Bulb Planting
Container Garden
Grass Words and Pictures
Herb and Fruit Vinegar
Jack, You, and the Beanstalk
Kids’ Garden (Basic)
Kids’ Garden (Advanced #1)
Kids’ Garden (Advanced #2)
Lawn Helpers
Leaf Pile Olympics
Noisemakers
Plant a Tree
Plant Cuttings
Potato Planting
Putting the Garden to Bed
Scarecrow
Small-Time Composter
Soil Sifter
Spaghetti Garden
Spring Garden Clean Out
Tools of the Trade
Vegetable Garden Signs
Wheelbarrow

Urban Activities

Brick/Concrete Rubbings
Building Name Game
City Find It
Downtown Fossil Hunt
Foot Measures
Going Places
Heike Hike
Hidden Faces
Landmark Catalog
Local History
Lynn and Richard's Walking Game
Mostest and Leastest
People Watching
Powers of Observation
Skylines
Statue Stories
Tour Guide
Urban Naturalist
Words on the Go

Springtime Activities

May Day
Migrating Bird Watch
Rites of Spring

Imagination Games

Animal Antics
Backyard Diving
Building Name Game
Bumper Sticker
Chalk Games
Cloudy With a Chance of Cucumbers
Country Store
Detective Work
Gem Museum
Guess the Footprint
Hidden Faces
Invent a Constellation
Invisible Dog
I Went to the Moon
Journey on the Wind
Magic Acts
On the Road
Open-Air Theater
Pavement Journeys
Pet "Beauty" Contest
Pitch Your Tent
Rain Dancing and More
Road Games
Secret Lives of Animals
Shipwrecked Smarts
Snowdrift Patterns
Theories of the Universe
Tightrope Feats
Wagon Games
Weird Yoga
Zany Television

Backyard Fun

Acorn Toss
Amazing Mazes
Animal Antics
Animal Footprint Casts
Archie's Bricks
Arm's Length
Atlas Shrugged
Backyard Diving
Baseless Baseball
Bicycle Decorations
The Big Picture
Blades of Grass
Bucket Brigade
Camouflage It
Camping Stories
Car Wash
Cast in Sand
Chalk Games
Clothespin Jug Game
Cloudy With a Chance of Cucumbers
Code of Nature
Color Counts
Comb the Grass
Country Store
Dirt City
Drum Talk
Find It!
Finger Sports
Fireless Fireworks
Fitness Stations
Flutter Ball
Flying Rings
Food Daring
Fossil Fun
Four-Leaf Clover Hunt
Four Seasons Cafe
Frisbee Games
Garden Hose Phone
Golf Ball Billiards
Gone Fishin'
Hide and Sleuth
Hobby Horse
Hoola Hoop
House Painting
Ice Brick Architecture
Instant Sandbox
I See
Juggling Acts
Kid Olympics
Large-Scale Tic Tac Toe
Leaf It on the Plate
Leaf Pile Olympics
Magic Acts
Megaphones
Microworld
Milkweed Games
Miniature Golf Course
Mini Obstacle Course
Mirror Games
Mud Flats (Basic)
Mud Flats (Advanced)
Musical Water Buckets
Natural Memory Game
No-Snow Men
On the Road
Open Air Theater
Orchestra of the Outdoors
Outdoor Checkers
Pavement Art
Pavement Journeys
Pendulum Art: Model A
Pendulum Art: Model B
Pet Beauty Contest
Pick-Up Twigs
Poohsticks #2: Urban Version
Punch Ball
Ring Glider
Rock Gardens
Pitch Your Tent
Rain Dancing and More
Rites of Spring
Rolling Stones
Shadow Games
Sidewalk Globe Trotters
Signal Flags
Simple Croquet
Secret Lives of Animals
Shipwrecked Smarts

Environmental Activities

Beach Cleanup
Gas Savers
Litter-Free Zone
Plant a Tree
Plastic Recyclers
Retake-Out
Trash Swap
Water Waste Detective

Summertime Activities

Archie's Bricks
Art From the Sea
Beach Cleanup
Beach Finery
Beach Sculpture
Beach "Spot It"
Bucket Brigade
Dandelion Jewelry
Follow the Leader
Midsummer Tree Decoration
Pinball by the Sea
Rites of Spring
Sand Castle Tools
Seashore Wind Chimes
Seaside Obstacle Course
Shell Faces
Sprinkler Games
Summer Forts
Summer Sled
Sun Tea
Water Slide
Water Tunnels
Water Writing

Backyard Laboratory

Animal Footprint Casts
Archie's Bricks
Archimedes Redux
Botany--Fruits
Botany--Leaves
Budding Scientist
Catalog the Leaves
Charlotte's Web
Chart the Rain
Check Out the Slope
Comparing Weights
Construct a Nest
Critter Tracking
Evaporation Experiment
Firefly Lamp
Floaters and Sinkers
Flower Anatomy
Grow a Butterfly
How Old Is It?
Insect Home Hunt
Life Form Count
Living Thermometers
Low-Tech Weather Kids
Make a Rainbow
Measuring Snowfall
Naming the Flowers
New Orleans Experiment
One-Way Timer
Piece de Resistance
Quick Quicksand
Siphon
Slopes and Angles
Small-Time Composter
Snowflake ID
Snowflake Observation
Solar Lab
Spider Web Detectives
Sun Cards
Sundial
Tadpoles to Frogs
Terrarium
Thermometer Kids
Watch a Fly
Water Witching
Weather Vane
Wind Sock
World Under a Rock
Worm Condo

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