Walking out of the Shadows: How to Help Your Child Enjoy the Outdoors?

Did you just watch your kid spend an entire afternoon glued to the couch watching a meaningless TV show? Or perhaps the Xbox gracefully took over your child’s precious time (and mind) that should be spent playing outdoors, in the nature. Where technological advancements have brought enhanced ways to teach children, they have also brought myriad physiological and psychological ailments that can distort our children’s future. But how to actually get kids off the couch and outside in the nature. This article will help you with this agonizing challenge.

Build a Cozy Outdoor Tent

Making your own little tent out in the backyard on a sunny day is the ideal approach to engage exhausted kids. There's something otherworldly about making your own particular lodge tent out of sheets and string that beats the manufactured tents against all odds.

Things you will need:

• A long piece of rope (around 4-5m will do)
• Twofold bunk sheets or bigger
• A couple of blocks or rocks
• Ample garments and pegs for the tent arrangement
• A cover or picnic blanket for inside the tent

What to do:

There is no confinement to what you can really do in the tent. Let your youngster have one of those doll tea parties, or simply lie in there for an unwinding nighttime; utilize your creative energy and concoct a fun-arrangement.

Play Duck, Duck Goose

Duck, duck, goose is an enthralling game that can empower and captivate children of all ages. Yes, it might be even more than the modern commercial playground equipment!
What to do:

• In this game, children take a seat in a way that they face one another.
• One child who is the "it," strolls around the circle. As he strolls around, he taps other children's heads and say whether they are a "duck" or a "goose".
• When somebody is the goose they get up and attempt to pursue "it" around the circle. The objective is to tap that child before he is capable to take a seat on the goose's spot.
• In the event that the goose is not ready to do this, he gets to be the "it" and the play proceeds. In case the other child does taps the "it"child, the child labeled needs to sit on the inside of the circle.
• At this point the goose gets to be “it” for the following round. The individual in the center can't leave until someone else is labeled and they are supplanted.

Enagae them in a Treasure Hunt

Children love playing around in the sand, so why not make it more motivating by adding treasure into the sands and have the kids look for it. You can choose any location to hide the treasure; near outdoor playground equipment or in the sand-pit can be great hiding spots.

Things you will need:

• Spades;
• Spoons;
• Buckets;
• Treasure to hide.

What you can do:

• Prior to the game, conceal various little toys in a sand-pit.
• Give every child a spade or spoon and give them a chance to begin burrowing to discover the coveted treasure.
• Make sure that you only put things that are in fixed bundling or in a re-sealable plastic sack before you conceal.