Nature Activity Book for Little Ones: 100+ Activities for Everyday Outdoor Fun

by Samantha Lewis

Introduce your little one to the wonders of nature with 100+ outdoor learning activities!

Give your child all the benefits of nature with this activity book designed for children ages 2-5. Whether you're planning an afternoon in a local park, a day in the backyard, or a morning hike in a nature preserve, you and your child will find more than 100 ideas in these pages for observing, exploring, creating, and playing in nature.

Nature Activity Book for Little Ones features:

- 100+ outdoor activities for kids ages 2-5, geared toward their interests and developmental milestones--with little or no preparation required
- Bonus activities for additional learning, including numbers, letters, shapes, and colors
- School prep: the activities teach problem-solving, communication, and responsibility, important skills for school succes
- Less screen time and more nature time together to fuel your child's curiosity and creativity and help them build an early connection with nature

Best of all, this entertaining book provides more than a hundred ways to keep your child moving and occupied and for you to bond with your child, all in nature!

Genres: Nature

144 pages, Paperback

Published April 19, 2022

Reviews

[Natalie all_books_great_and_small · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

Nature Activity book for Little Ones is an activity guide book for children to do with a grown up. The book is broken down into 9 sections and each one has information, ideas, games, activities to do in nature outdoors. It's a great book for ideas to do mote outdoor activities with your child or a group of children and would be perfect for anyone who does forest school with nursery aged or early years children. The book is planned out almost like lesson plans so I'd say it's more for an adult to read than to read with your child but some bits they will enjoy viewing such as the illustrations. I think I would have preferred it if the book has spaces after each section to maybe record activities you've done etc.

[Reading_ Tamishly · Rating 5 out of 5]

(Most days I cannot handle the cuteness of reading and reviewing children's books. I am so happy actually!)

Thank you, Zietgeist Z Kids, for the advance review copy.

Honestly, I was not expecting a lot when I saw the cover for the first time. However, I am quite impressed with the contents and their presentation.

The illustration is a good surprise for me. It will amaze the young readers and keep them engaged with the activities described.

Lots of simple, fun activities to do together with the kids which the kids can perform with minimum guidance with minimum supplies. The highlight would be the bonus activity parts in each chapter.


Go for this one without thinking twice!

[Alicia Bayer · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good idea book for things to do outside with very young children but it's very basic. There are color illustrations but most of them don't have to do with the activities. The activities feel a little bit like lesson plans and they're so simple you don't really need them to be turned into a common core lesson plan. It's still a nice book that will be great for figuring out what to do next outside with your little one.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

[K.A. Goodsell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nature Activity Book for Little Ones is a resource to learn about different activities that you can enjoy with your younger children.

The cover artwork is adorable and I like the illustration style used throughout the cover and the pages.

Inside you'll find sections with different activity genres such as I Spy, Nature Arts & Crafts, and even Music To My Ears.

It's a great companion book if you're homeschooling or even just to enjoy nature with your kids while they're younger and at home. There's even questions to ask your kids as you explore. For us it was a helpful guide to getting more out of the experience of our hike and backyard than we had prior.

5 Stars. Would recommend. We would add this book to our collection for sure!

Thanks to the publisher, the author, and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC copy to read and review. Review will also be posted to my blog (www.kagoodsell.com/book-reviews), GoodReads, TikTok (@unearthingeco), as well as NetGalley reviews.

[joyce w. laudon · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is no better time than right now to get outside with a little one in your life. As is so rightly pointed out in this book’s introduction, kids can benefit from nature just as is true for adults. This book is full of ideas for doing just that. And, by the way, the illustrations are incredibly cute and appealing.

Chapter headings include Learn and Grow with Nature, I Spy, Let’s Explore, Nature Arts and Crafts and more ending with Chapter 9 and Calm, Cool and Collected. There are also additional resources listed at the end of this title. So, pick a project or two and see what you think.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Zeitgeist for this title. All opinions are my own.

[Elizabeth Seibel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is great for parents of little ones. Getting kids to go outside can be a struggle sometimes, but with this book we are given ideas on how to make it fun, inviting, and something our kids will look forward to every day. Scavenger hunts and special places are some of the things mentioned in the book. The author goes into detail giving you categories for the ideas as well as materials and step by step instructions for implementing them.

[NaTyshca Pickett · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a great book for family activities. We took this with us on a family vacation and it was great in keeping my little one entertained.

As a former teacher, I can say this will make a great book for any elementary classroom and great from nature projects. I would recommend for anyone with children or work with children.

[Denice Langley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an excellent guide to helping you keep your 2-5 year old occupied while having fun and educating them at the same time. A group of us took our toddler/pre-K children to a park and completed many of the activities in this book. The verdict was unanimous.....we're going again and trying more activities. Thank you so much for the inspiration.

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a wonderful book! There are so many fantastic activities for families to enjoy more time outdoors year round and in any environment. A huge thank you to NetGalley and Zeitgeist for the copy to review!

[Mandy Dawson Farmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent teaching tool

Activities, games, crafts and more using nature. A the with of nature lessons for your preschoolers. So many great ideas without needing a bunch of supplies.