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Description

Kim's game/Eagle eyes

Resources

Suitable objects for the game, for example - feather, acorn, pinecone, moss, leaf, stone (avoid wildflowers which children should not be encouraged to pick)

Instructions

Some simple steps to making sure that they work and that everyone (including you) has fun:
1) Set-up the game first and then explain how it works.
2) Keep explanations and rules to a minimum.
3) Pay special attention to any safety considerations. Explain and stress safety rules.
4) Keep your goal in mind; what do you want the participants to get out of the game? (Many of these games focus on awareness of nature around us.)
5) Get kids to feel comfortable outside.
6) Spend time after games asking kids if they had fun.
7) What did they learn?

Playing the game:
Variation 1
1. Cover the objects with something natural, like large leaves.
2. Remove the covering for about 30 seconds before replacing it.
3. Ask the children to go off and find similar objects .
Variation 2
1. Choose objects that the children can touch and therefore examine texture. Pick objects which are hard, soft, tickly, bendy etc.
2. and 3. as above
Variation 3
1. Show six or seven pictures of birds or other animals that can be found in the woodland
2. Cover them up.
Ask how many the children can remember.
Variation 4
In a square area of the woods (5m²) the group has one minute to remember the contents of the square. The group then turns their back to the area and a couple of things are changed (an extra leaf, a pine cone turned around, a stone moved or added etc). Can the group name all of the things which are changed within 1-2 minutes?

Tags

• choice challenges
• Eagle eyes
• Environment
• fly
• grow
• grow and fly Choice Challenges 08
• Ladybird
• Nature
• Nature Games
• Summer
• Trefoil News
• Trefoil News 2023
• Trefoil News Summer 2023

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