7 outdoors games for preschoolers

Spending time outdoors brings real benefits to kids. If you want to add variety to your walks or make them more educational, try some of these activities.

1. Nature painting. 

Dip a stick, a flower or a grass blade in the paint and make a picture.

2. Colour scavenger hunt.

Make a grid of 4-6 different colours. Children should find some things of corresponding colours.

3. Stone balancing game.

Stack stones one onto the other. If you bring the load tumbling down, you will lose.

4. Nature parade.

Draw the line on the ground and line up stones, sticks or cones.

5. Stickers.

Fetch a set of stickers with you and decorate stones or logs.

6. Shape jumping.

Draw different shapes with chalk. Call out a shape and a child should stand into the corresponding one. To make a game more challenging, draw shapes of different colours: ‘a red square’, ‘a blue square’, ‘a blue rectangle’ etc.

7. Chalk tracks.

Draw different kinds of lines with chalk: straight, curled, loop-like, zigzag. Children should follow the lines. Instead of running themselves, they can push cars along the lines and in this case, develop pre-writing skills.
 

 I hope you will find something entertaining for you and your child. Have a nice walk!