Happy Father's Day! Family Activity.

Family Activity. Beat the summer heat. Pack a picnic. Put it in a backpack. Take a walk through a shallow stream with your kids (for sensitive feet wear rubber soled sandals/water shoes). Bring a pail to collect crawdads and pretty rocks in. Play Twenty Questions or I Spy using the nature around you. Example: What you choose is a fish. Your child asks, "Is it bigger than a tree leaf?" You say yes or no. Other questions- "Is it brown?" "Is it a mineral, vegetable, insect, bird, mammal or reptile?" "Does it live in the water?"
Later in the shade eat your lunch and ask your kids if they have any questions about nature. If you don't know the answer then when you get home go online (or go to the library) and find out the answer. Questions might be, "What do crawdads eat? Do crawdads sleep?" "Why is the sky blue?" "What causes streams?"