This Trail Finding Scavenger Hunt is a Great Idea for Summer

Kids love scavenger hunts, and a hunt that gets them outside and helps them learn a little bit about navigating in the wild is extra fun.

This trail signs scavenger hunt idea from There’s Just One Mommy is a great one to do with a group or as a summer camp activity, but you can also set it up yourself instead of having two groups of kids do it.

The activity includes a printable with different trail marking symbols kids can make with sticks and rocks. One group of kids can collect the items and make the symbols to help the other group find a toy or another fun little treasure.

If you have a smaller group of kids you can set it up yourself, or have one kid set it up for the other(s) and then switch.

Or if you need it take less time, start with sticks and rocks already collected for the trail markers to start with.

I do want to note that this post is old and when I clicked on the link to download the trail signs printable I had to request access (which I did but haven’t gotten access yet) but the idea is still a good one.

Check out this post from Ranger Rick to find ways to mark trails (it includes a PDF of the basic trail markers that you can access). You could also buy this printable trail signs activity from Still and Made on Etsy that includes even more symbols you can try.

Either way, this is a great activity to do at a park or somewhere with a nice amount of space to direct people around. Check out the post from There’s Just One Mommy for more inspiration on how to do this activity.

[Photo: There’s Just One Mommy]

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Most kids go through a phase where they want to learn more about animals, and it’s fun for them to learn about the diversity of the natural world and what humans can do to protect other creatures we share the planet with. Camilla de la Bedoyere has written a couple of books, illustrated by Philip Giordano, to help kids learn more about birds and bees.

Wild Your World: Birds looks at many different kinds of birds that live around the world and covers things like parts of a bird, different habitats that birds live in, migration, camouflage, what and how birds eat and more.

With lovely illustrations showing a diverse array of birds found around the world, the book talks about different birds that live in the woodlands, rainforest, fields and farms, coastland, grasslands and deserts, urban areas and the polar regions.

It talks about some of the biggest, smallest and fastest birds, and fun facts about different birds. For example you’ll learn about birds that next in cacti, the birds with weird shaped eggs so they won’t roll off cliffs, and meet the birds that migrate from New Zealand to Alaska.

Wild Your World: Bees follows a similar format, talking about different kinds of bees (and how the vast majority of bee species are solitary bees), parts of a bee and why bees look the way they do, how bees collect nectar and pollen, how bees sense the world around them, how their wings work and what life in a colony is like.

It covers the bee life cycle, how bees make honey, what causes a swarm and more. It covers digger bees, carpenter bees, orchid bees, cuckoo bees (who lay their eggs in the nests of teddy bear bees so they don’t have to take care of their young), mining bees, plasterer bees, leaf-cutter, wool carder and mason bees (so named because they collect materials to make their nests), bumblebees and swaet bees.

Readers will also learn about keeping bees. Both books talk about the dangers to birds and bees and what humans can do to help them.

These books are aimed at readers ages 4-9 who will enjoy looking at the pictures and learning about these animals and how people can help protect them.

About the books: Both books are 46 pages and hardcover. Published 2025 by Design Eye (see: birds|bees). Both books retail for $16.99.

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