Take a Child on a Nature Walk.

We do similar things a lot. When my grandson spends time with me he always ends up with something in his pocket.

Introducing kids to nature is a great idea and being out in nature can only be good for anyone. Getting fresh air and walking and excersising is great for everyone who does it.

I live in the city, but at the end of my block we have some woods with a creek thru it. I take the grandkids down there, We have so much fun. I tell them we are hunting Lions and tigers and bears oh my, like they did on the Wizard of Oz. Its so much fun to explore with the kids.

Its wonderful taking children out to show them the wild things, we are very lucky in Britain that its quite easy to get out into teh fields and woods, but even so I'm amazed at how many families seem almost afraid of being out of doors let alone getting nice and muddy.

I hope I have time like yours. I tried to spend my weekends with my son but turned out to be no-quality time with him. I think I will adopt yours. Thanks!

Perhaps you can also start a laughter club with the children.After all laughter is the best medicine!This can be done stopping on the way for 5 minutes and laughing till you have tears in your eyes.Believe me it is fun and releieves you of a lot of tension.

It is nice that you do that with your grandchildren. It is always good to get kids outdoors in the fresh air. We used to take my son out all the time when he was younger. You are also teaching them something..and making them use thier hands and senses and creativity...good for you....

i used to do that when i was a kid it was fun just to get out and do diffent things

I love to take my children out on nature walks. It teaches them to stop and appreciate the plants and animals surronding them. But I have also found that it teaches them how others do not respect it. We have walked a nature trail where others used it as a party area and left their trash all over the place. I was pretty proud when they realized how sad it was because the trash effects the animals, water, and nature in general. It is even more sad to see that the city we have moved to does not care about their nature park. Our now local nature park, was once the major supply of water to this little town. But the city left pipes all over that are no longer in use and we even found a tree growing around a pipe! Then on the end of the nature walk, there was a large metal water tank that is overgrown with vines and rusting. I can't believe the city does not care enough to clean it up!!!

I love to talk walks to nowhere. It is so relaxing and yes it can be fun with children. I too live in that kind of area. I have a blueberry field in my back. It is huge. It is great when they come into season. Lots of fun picking them.

We live a nature walk. The boy is known for bringing in a snake and saying "look what I found!" We have had crawdads, baby bunnies, baby birds and the cats catch their share of mice and so we know how cruel out kitties are. The plants on the 43 acres we live on are diverse and the bouquets that sometimes make it into me are varied and beautiful. My daughter is learning herbs now at 14. Being homeschoolers we have lots of material we can use for the art projects and other things. If only all kids could have a relative in the country where they could spend some of their summers and live and learn nature!!!

that is true, i think parents are preoccupied with work, that they give almost anything their children would want, toys, and stuffs like computers, etc, but fail to spend some time with nature... just to "feel" the beauty with no cost at all.

i need to go on a walk with you.i have trees an wooded area an i could learn which berrys to eat an diffrent plants. i love nature.it a great to be outdoors

This is really a very good activity and the children will surely learn a lot from this nature walking.the child comes in actual contact with the nature, there bye actually seeing all the plants,rivers, some small animals and starts loving the nature in his own way.we must take our child out more frequently to increase his contact with the nature.This is very vital in view of recent attack of tv on our life making all our kids idiot box kids.

thank you for the ida of walking in the wood with my grendkids I go for walk with them some time but we live in town so we just walk around the blocks but they are getting biger so i think we may just start doing this

Those are always fun.

yes i really like to go walk with my grandfather and his style to saying life matter with laughing and not at all felt boring.

my daughter is to young to be taken for walk but once she will start walking herself we will certainly go for walk

Very rightly said.Respecting Mother nature is very essential as it brings many good qualities in one.

children are verry special.Nature is verry good for them,is good to know a little of everything.