Day Hiking Trails: Great After the Hike Activity: Nature Collage

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Great After the Hike Activity: Nature Collage

Objects founds in nature, such as autumn leaves, can be used to make
a nature collage.

Once you’ve completed your first hike, pat yourself on the back. You’ve done a lot of work but have taken the first step into a larger world for both you and your children.

To keep kid’s enthusiasm charged, “review” the hike in kid-friendly ways. While you really can’t do this with infants, most toddlers and older kids will enjoy it. One such after the hike activity is Nature Collage.

Rather than make a scrapbook, get a large, poster-sized piece of construction paper and have kids glue cutouts of their leaf/bark rubbings or their collected objects to it. The collage then can be hung up as a poster.

Learn about more than a hundred other hiking diversions for kids in Hikes with Tykes: Games and Activities.

Meet the Author

My name is Rob Bignell. I'm a long-time hiker, journalist and editor. My son Kieran and I have been hiking together for the past decade. Before Kieran, I taught middle school students in New Mexico and Wisconsin, served as an infantryman in the Army National Guard, and worked in newspapers. I've won several journalism awards, from editorial writing to sports reporting. In 2001, The Prescott Journal, which I served as managing editor of, was named Wisconsin’s Weekly Newspaper of the Year. Currently I own and operate an online editing business, Inventing Reality Editing Service. After spending several years in Southern California, my son and I now live in Wisconsin on the scenic Red Cedar River.