
Weather Watcher
Spot four kinds of cloud, make a rain gauge from a bottle with a true-size centimetre strip, keep a weather week and a rain record, and test the wind with a ribbon wand. Ages 2 to 7.
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Spot four kinds of cloud, make a rain gauge from a bottle with a true-size centimetre strip, keep a weather week and a rain record, and test the wind with a ribbon wand. Ages 2 to 7.

M is for mushroom, D is for duck: giant M and D to trace, a hunt for hilltops, moss and a D-shaped moon, tracing and stick-building for M, m, D and d, and an M-or-D sound sort. Ages 2 to 7.

Hunt for big and tiny pairs outside, line up sticks from short to long, measure a table in hands and feet, and make a strip as tall as you. For ages 2 to 7.

Follow a monarch from egg to butterfly and a frog from eggs to hopping, act out every stage, cut and sort the stage cards, then compare them with how you grow. For ages 2 to 7.

Spot story ideas on a walk, make picture stones, sort who, where and what, then pick three and tell a story with a beginning, middle and end. For ages 2 to 7.

Find repeating patterns outside, guess what comes next, build the line with real leaves and sticks, then invent a pattern of your own. For ages 2 to 7.

Count a scattered forest floor, fill a ten-frame with real pebbles, trace 6 to 10 from the dot, collect 6 to 10 finds on a walk and guess your handful. For ages 2 to 7.

Giant I and N to trace and decorate, an outside I/N shape hunt with insects and nests, trace I and i plus a stick build, and an I-or-N first-sound sort — for ages 2 to 7.

A chart of six flower helpers, a five-minute flower watch with tallies, a day-or-night sort, and a close-up drawing page — bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, hoverflies and hummingbirds, for ages 2 to 7.

Big arcs and waves to finger-trace, snail-shell spirals, a curve hunt outside, blank name-practice lines and a swirly picture — the curves that grow into letters, for ages 2 to 7.

A tub of water and one big question: a guess-then-test sheet, a close-look drawing page, a foil boat that carries pebbles and a sorting page with two tricks for changing the result.

Follow a bean from seed to pod: a life-cycle circle, a look inside a soaked bean, a cut-and-glue picture order, a bean-in-a-jar light test and a journal for watching the root come first, then the shoot.

Stack it, knock it down, build it again: count how tall a tower gets before it tumbles, finish pattern towers, plan and build with sticks and stones, meet animal builders and draw what you made.

Three paints, one walk and plenty of questions: guess and test real colour mixes, hunt for colours outside, colour a garden by shape-marks, build a ladder of greens and name a brand-new colour.

Twelve numbered cards to cut out and carry on walks: look closely, listen carefully, watch the sky, find tracks, hug a tree. Plus a fold-up pocket and a page to draw what you found.

A cover, a grown-up guide and four playful pages: trace a giant T, hunt for T shapes outside, trace T and t, build a T from two sticks and sort pictures by first sound.

Spinners, parachutes and hitchhikers: hunt for real seeds, guess how each one travels, line them up small to big, match seeds to trees, race a paper spinner and count the seeds inside an apple.

Sunny, cloudy or rainy? Name feelings with weather pictures, match today's real sky to how you feel, colour where a feeling lives in your body and trace a breathing leaf.

Snip, tear, trace and pinch: cutting strips that end at a picture, a paper leaf to tear and stick, dot trails and a dot-to-dot mushroom, and a treasure mat to sort tiny finds with a pinch.

Meet the honey bee up close: six checked fun facts, an egg-to-bee life cycle to cut and order, a Be a Bee movement game and a flower watch to count who comes to visit.

Circles, squares and triangles to find, trace and build: a shape detective hunt, a park made of shapes to colour and count, stick-and-pebble shapes and a cut-and-glue shape collage.

Counting with pebbles, acorns and leaves: count the treasures, match numbers to pebble groups, hop a stone path, fill number nests with real finds and hunt for numbers on your walk.

An explorer's chart of eleven autumn finds to spot on a walk, then a leaf colour sort, a pinecone weather test, museum labels, a field journal page, leaf rubbing art and a leaf critter to make.

A cover, a grown-up guide and four playful pages: trace and decorate a giant A, hunt for A shapes outside, trace A and a, build an A from sticks and sort pictures by first sound.

A cover and a short grown-up guide, then five playful pages for a slow walk outside: a picture hunt, counting finds from 1 to 5, trail tracing for little hands, a colour walk and a draw-your-walk page.

Letter pages built around real things kids find outside (S is for snail, P is for pinecone), plus tracing, a picture sort and a one-page parent guide.

A free letter page: trace the letters, circle the things that start with L, then go find a leaf outside.

A one-page noticing sheet: what your child returns to, what they wander off from, and where their strengths show up. The map you plan from.