ACTIVITIES: Nature Sack

Nature Sack is an activity you can do with children of almost any age in almost any location. We incorporated it last night while going on an evening walk. The concept is simple: find items from nature, but them in a bag one at a time, have other participants feel inside the bag and guess what is there. Twist: for a fun twist, try to choose items that will "trick" the other players.

We had more fun that even I expected with this one. After one round of me finding the objects and the girls guessing, they were off and running with the game. Throughout our ENTIRE walk, they looked for objects to try and trick eachother, my husband and myself. Once they found something, they would put it in the cloth bag and then ask someone to reach in, feel the object, and guess what they were touching. This is really fun if you can find an object that feels like something along the lines of a worm or bug!





Neat objects to try:

- a stick that feels like a bone
- a snail
- a small piece of litter (might feel like a leaf)
- moss

MY RATING:

Nature Sack: I give the success of this activity for us (last night on our walk) a 10/10

Everyone stayed engaged and had fun all the way home. We even continued the game when we got out of the forest and found things like mulch, a rubber band and a piece of plastic while walking on the sidewalk. The girls loved getting my husband to reach in the bag and would try to make him think he was touching things like worms or bugs! Lots of fun, a real hit!