62 things to do before you are 12!!

1. Climb a tree
2. Sleep under the stars and star gaze (even in you own garden)
3. Learn to swim
4. Build a den or treehouse
5. Find a geocache
6. Go beach combing after a storm
7. Fall off a bike
8. Cook damper bread over a fire
9. Camp out in the wild
10. Play chase in the rain
11. Make a water slide
12. Find a cave and explore
13. Catch a crab
14. Catch a wave (jumping, body boarding or surfing)
15. Make something from things you find in the wild
16. Play in a stream
17. Do something you are scared of
18. Watch animals in the wild
19. Roll or slide down sand dunes or a grassy slope
20. Camp on the beach
21. Build a sandcastle city
22. Skim a stone
23. Play pooh sticks
24. Plant something and watch it grow
25. Play with echoes
26. Ride your bike on a wild trail
27. Play flashlight tag
28. Visit an island
29. Go on a two day hike
30. Play under a sprinkler
31. Try snorkelling
32. Climb a big rock
33. Play out in the wild for a whole day
34. Meet kids in the park and invent a game
35. Paddle a kayak or canoe
36. Dig for worms
37. Catch a fish
38. Visit a National park
39. Catch a shrimp
40. Play on a rope swing
41. Make a kite and fly it
42. Eat some foraged food
43. Identify the birds in your back garden
44. Go climbing as abseiling
45. Catch a tadpole
46. Make a mud pie
47. Use a hand lens to spot minibeasts in the garden or on a pond
48. Watch the sunset and sun rise
49. Go puddle jumping
50. Play conkers
51. Dam a stream
52. Set up a snail race
53. Find some fungi
54. Go barefoot
55. Go fossil or bone hunting
56. Climb a huge hill
57. Go cloud watching
58. Track a wild animal
59. Make a wildlife home
60. Explore a rockpool
61. Nature journal
62. And go on a walk using a map and compass

Is there anything you would add to the list?!?!

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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!!