To celebrate Our January Outdoors, here are one hundred ways to get outside with your children. All these ideas are things our family love to do, they require very little set up and most cost almost nothing. 1. Take a walk around your neighbourhood. 2. Hang out the washing and let your child play with the pegs or sit in the empty basket. 3. Roll a ball together 4. Bounce a ball against the wall 5. Draw on the pavement with chalk 6. Paint on the pavement with water. 7. Make chalk paint with chalk and water 8. Dig in a patch of dirt with an old cake tin and a spoon 9. Go fruit picking. 10. Visit a playground. 11. Draw with pencils and paper on clipboards in the garden 12. Fly a kite 13. Watch the sunrise 14. Swim in a river 15. Eat breakfast outside in your pyjamas 16. Walk through a forest 17. Run up and down a hill 18. Read a chapter book on a picnic rug 19. Make a tower out of stones 20. Play in a pile of Autumn Leaves 21. Water the garden 22. Meet friends for lunch at a park 23. Shop at the farmers' market 24. Make a leaf crown 25. Play dress-ups outside 26. Make shadow puppets on the wall in the afternoon light 27. Explore a community garden 28. Make a cubby in a shrub or bush 29. Use a vegetable peeler and sandpaper and practice whittling sticks 30. Visit a local farm. 31. Slide down a hill on a cardboard box 32. Climb a tree 33. Pack a backpack and head outside for a pretend adventure 34. Play in the rain 35. Dance in the puddles left by the rain. 36. Crack seasonal nuts open with hammers 37. Count the birds 38. Paint with watercolours in the garden 39. Play with beach toys and beach towels in the backyard 40. Scooter along a walking track 41. Visit an Arboretum 42. Make mud pies 43. Collect kindling 44. Light a fire 45. Toast marshmallows 46. Pop popcorn over a fire 47. Bake cheesy camp-fire potatoes 48. Fill a wheelbarrow with garden weeds 49. Pretend a stick is a magic wand 50. Play hide and seek 51. Take a nap in the sunshine 52. Visit a public garden 53. Drink tea in a leafy courtyard cafe 54. Make a fairy garden with flowers and pebbles 55. Skip with a skipping rope 56. Plant a tree 57. Go on a bush walk, looking for wildlife 58. Jump off a tree stump 59. Take musical instruments outside 60. Climb a mountain 61. Ride a ferry 62. Make a driftwood pirate ship 63. Walk to your local library 64. Fill muffin trays with water and petals 65. Do leaf-shading or leaf-rubbing on paper using crayons 66. Plant strawberry runners in an old wheel-barrow 67. Dig for worms 68. Make a garden potion 69. Throw rocks in a stream. 70. Build a sandcastle 71. Lie in a hammock 72. Race leaf boats 73. Watch the sunset 74. Plant seeds in an egg carton 75. Spread mulch over new seedlings 78. Shell fresh peas in the garden. 79. Weave a necklace out of string and seashells 80. Meet friends to kick a ball on an oval 81. Make a daisy chain 82. Make balance beams out of fallen trees 83. Walk to a friend's house 84. Climb a haystack 85. Visit a wetland 86. Make lemonade 87. Pick posies of garden flowers 88. Walk a dog (borrow a friend's dog, if you don’t have your own). 89. Set up a tent in the backyard 90. Play hopscotch 91. Play with dolls outside 92. Collect rubbish from your local beach or river, make it a treasure hunt. 93. Go for a bike ride 94. Have running races on the sand. 95. Catch a cabbage moth with a net 96. Scrump summer fruit 97. Run under the sprinkler 98. Have an outdoor bath 99. Read stories on the front steps 100. Say bedtime prayers, looking up at the moon. Parenting can feel overwhelming. But it doesn't have to. I'm here to help you find a simpler way. . Sign up and take my free workshop, or get my 1-2-3 newsletter in your inbox each week and together let's seek a deeper connection and a brighter life. With Love, Hannah Alexander x
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