How to have fun with children in nature

Animals from chestnuts

Today, children are flooded with many toys, they receive them from parents and grandparents, sometimes from friends, the market is literally saturated with these products. However, many of us do our own experience that the most fascinating entertainment is what children create with their own imagination and their own hands, therefore, they often do with trifles in which they can create their own reality to their liking.

The autumn season of short days and long nights attracts us to the fireplace, and if we still decide to go somewhere on the trip, plan a route to where the grown chestnuts will grow They can be used to make beautiful animal figures. Most of all, of course, it is tempting to make a prickly hedgehog from a prickly shell, and then already from chestnuts and skewers you will find a giraffe with a long neck with a whole zoo at home, a dachshund, an elephant, a cow, a teddy bear, whatever you can think of. Even a small shelter can be made from chestnut leaves, and the foundation can consist, for example, of paper cardboard, supported by twigs and covered with the aforementioned fallen leaves.

Throwing donuts

With the kids, you will definitely not get bored even in the woods. You just need to motivate them to collect donuts, which at home in the garden you use as a weapon to throw at the target. Then you can compete with them to hit at a certain distance, such as empty cans.

Beaver Dam

For generations of our ancestors, water retention in nature was a matter of survival. Then the children engaged in a similar pastime in the scout camp, where they built the so-called Beaver dam. For this purpose, caraway trees, branches, tufts of grass and stones that fell into streams and rivers crossed, and the resulting ponds were used for bathing and collecting public water. If your child is creative and playful, they can make such a small dam in just a few hours. It especially begins to amuse them at the moment when suddenly water begins to accumulate and children see with their own eyes the fruits of their labor.

Painting on flat, round stones

Today, non-toxic food colors can be purchased and even the smallest children can paint on them. It can be painted not only on paper or wood, but also after stones. Go with the children to the river at the bottom of the stone and pick up a suitable pebble without sharp edges. They can create colorful decorative variations of animal or human faces, or children\’s rooms.