Outdoors
Touch the bark on a walk
Age range: 1–3 years
- Duration
- 15 min
- Location
- Outside
- Category
- Outdoors
- Type
- Activity
How to try it
Walk a short path and stop at three or four different trees. Place your child's hand on each trunk and say whether it feels rough, smooth, bumpy, or ridged, and look for what lives on the bark.
Materials
No special materials listed.
Safety note
Stay on paths, skip trees with thorns, sap, or sharp bark, and stop your child putting bark in their mouth.
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Why it matters
Feeling different textures while hearing words for them links what your child touches with what they can say.
Benefit
Touch and texture
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