Check out these fun outdoor scavenger hunt ideas for kids! Get outdoors with this long list of printables and other scavenger hunt activities that kids will absolutely love. These activities may be low to no prep, but will keep kids busy for a long time.
These boredom-buster outdoor scavenger hunt ideas are sure to become favorite activities in your home or classroom! These scavenger hunt activities range from simple checklists to fun scavenger nature crafts. There is something here for all interests, age and ability levels.
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1. Nature Hunt Printables (With a Real Magnifying Glass)
These nature scavenger hunt printables are unique and so fun to use! Children love the peek through magnifying glass that is conveniently placed right on the printable. No more fumbling around with a magnifying glass, clipboard, scavenger hunt sheet and pencil, this scavenger hunt has everything you need right on the printable! You can keep the magnifying glass empty and use the center as a focal point. OR…
You can add a real credit card sized magnifying glass and tape it to the cut out area on the scavenger hunt printable. As you can see in the links below, I included outdoor scavanger hunt printables for all seasons and interests!
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2. My Wild Finds- Collect and Craft with Nature
Love the idea of crafting with the pieces of nature that you find? These nature printables offer fun ways to search for nature, collect it, and create art with the most lovely crafting supplies around! Crafting with nature is the perfect way to connect kids with nature and helps you ditch plastic crafting supplies for natural and biodegradable material. Here’s how this outdoor scavenger hunt works: First collect nature using an egg carton and fun printable prompt.
Next, use the pieces of nature to make a flower crown or cool nature mask! I even included pictures that are perfect for decorating with nature.
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3. How to Make Nature Mandalas with Kids and the Muffin Tin Scavenger Hunt
As seen on Good Housekeeping, this fun nature hunt and activity will keep kids busy for a long time! Kids will love collecting nature with the muffin tin scavenger prompts, then turning their treasures into nature mandalas.
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4. Nature Collection Scavenger Hunt and Journal
This is a great low-prep outdoor activity that will keep kids of all ages busy for hours. Kids will have fun while they craft, color, and learn with collected pieces of nature! Perfect for fall, winter, spring, and summer, this nature journal for kids will keep your children away from the screen and enjoying all that nature has to offer. The cover is a paper bag so it doubles as a collection bag for nature treasures!
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5. Nature Hunt Printables for Indoor or Outdoor Use
If your children love getting outdoors and exploring nature, then these nature activities are for you! Just pick one out of the 16 scavenger hunt options, print on card stock, cut out and head outdoors! It’s ok if you don’t find all objects, just have fun and explore. Children will also love using the fun true to scale ruler conveniently placed on the magnifying glass handle! This opens up so many opportunities for learning and exploring.
With the addition of the circular nature hunt pieces, this scavenger hunt printable pack can be used both indoors or outdoors.
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6. No Prep Outdoor Scavenger Hunts- Just Print and Go!
Here are over 20 outdoor printable activities you can try in your own backyard or during your next nature walk around the neighborhood. These no-prep nature scavenger hunt pages and checklists are perfect last minute activities and require no extra work or effort on your end. Just print and head outdoors with your kids!
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7. Sticky Flower Scavenger Hunt for Spring and Summer
Here is a fun and easy flower scavenger hunt to try with kids! This activity will help children learn nature identification right in their own backyard. The cardboard piece is reusable for endless scavenger hunts.
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8. Sticky Leaf Scavenger Hunt for Fall
Try this sticky leaf scavenger hunt in fall! This leaf activity is awesome for teaching children leaf identification at a young age and will help them learn the shapes of different types of leaves.
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9. Nature Vocabulary Word Scavenger Hunt
This fun outdoor educational scavenger hunt is fun for kids of all ages! The winter word search activity offers a fun and hands-on way for children to learn basic seasonal vocabulary words and expand their knowledge of the seasonal differences in the natural world. Weather isn’t cooperating? That’s okay, you can easily bring this activity indoors!
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10. Butterfly Scavenger Hunt and Identification Activities
Hide these butterflies and search for them with your handy printable scavenger hunt! This is a fun reason to get outside and helps children learn all about butterflies.
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11. Rainbow Flower Threading Boards
This is more of a scavenger hunt craft! Search for flowers that are all colors of the rainbow and display them on a cardboard rainbow! This reusable cardboard rainbow takes just minutes to set up and will be loved throughout the spring and summer seasons! Kids will love decorating the rainbow while working on color recognition, hand-eye coordination, and strengthening fine motor skills.
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12. Easy Egg Nature Walk for Spring
This fun outdoor activity for spring will have children looking for different colors in nature. This activity is so easy to prep and will lead to hours of outdoor play and exploration for kids! You can make any cardboard frame to fit any learning theme or area of interest for your child. I added colors on the side our board to encourage a nature color scavenger hunt.
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I hope you give these outdoor scavenger hunt ideas a try! I promise, your little nature lovers will love them as much as my boys.
∼Tara
