
- Climb a tree
- Sleep under the stars and star gaze (even in you own garden)
- Learn to swim
- Build a den or treehouse
- Find a geocache
- Go beach combing after a storm
- Fall off a bike
- Cook damper bread over a fire
- Camp out in the wild
- Play chase in the rain
- Make a water slide
- Find a cave and explore
- Catch a crab
- Catch a wave (jumping, body boarding or surfing)
- Make something from things you find in the wild
- Play in a stream
- Do something you are scared of
- Watch animals in the wild
- Roll or slide down sand dunes or a grassy slope
- Camp on the beach
- Build a sandcastle city
- Skim a stone
- Play pooh sticks
- Plant something and watch it grow
- Play with echoes
- Ride your bike on a wild trail
- Play flashlight tag
- Visit an island
- Go on a two day hike
- Play under a sprinkler
- Try snorkelling
- Climb a big rock
- Play out in the wild for a whole day
- Meet kids in the park and invent a game
- Paddle a kayak or canoe
- Dig for worms
- Catch a fish
- Visit a National park
- Catch a shrimp
- Play on a rope swing
- Make a kite and fly it
- Eat some foraged food
- Identify the birds in your back garden
- Go climbing as abseiling
- Catch a tadpole
- Make a mud pie
- Use a hand lens to spot minibeasts in the garden or on a pond
- Watch the sunset and sun rise
- Go puddle jumping
- Play conkers
- Dam a stream
- Set up a snail race
- Find some fungi
- Go barefoot
- Go fossil or bone hunting
- Climb a huge hill
- Go cloud watching
- Track a wild animal
- Make a wildlife home
- Explore a rockpool
- Nature journal
- And go on a walk using a map and compass
Is there anything you would add to the list?!?!
We now have it available in a free downloadable format here!!
Here’s a little gallery of some of the things we have done!!
Doesn’t the list make you think of all the things you did and loved as a child!!



















