Today’s family fun activity is to take a nature hike around your neighborhood.
A nature hike is great physical activity for the whole family, and can provide a learning experience as well.
As you walk, collect leaves from a few different types of trees and identify them when you get home with the help of the Maryland At A Glance website.
Also have the kids hunt for wildflowers and identify them with the help of the state resource website.
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If the kids need to be enticed to go on the walk, come up with a scavenger hunt to make it more exciting. Make a list of various items from nature the kids might find on the hike and have them check the items off as they find them. You could make this a competition or work together as a family. Items on the list could include such things as a pinecone, twig in the shape of a Y, locust shell, anthill, brown leaf etc. The items could either be collected or pictures taken to verify that the item was found.
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