Nature Hunt and Sort {+ Learning Resources Giveaway}

This post is sponsored by Learning Resources.

As part of our Back to School Basics series we are working on simple preschool activities. One of our favorite activities for preschoolers and toddlers is going on hunts! We also love sorting things.

This Nature Hunt and Sort activity combines both hunting and sorting and we are also sharing a cool new tool from Learning Resources! Make sure to scroll down for our ViewScope giveaway!

If we have free time my kids like to be outside in our backyard or headed to the park. They love to be outdoors and they really enjoy exploring nature!

They were really excited when Learning Resources sent us the Primary Science ViewScope to check out!

We took the ViewScope outside immediately and the kids used it to look closer at some of their favorite things in nature. Since they were really interested in finding objects and then exploring them more with the ViewScope, I set up a simple hunt and sort activity to help them collect things to look at.

Materials Needed:

• paper
• markers
• items from nature

How to play:

I wrote out the names of the objects we were hunting for on a piece of paper and then I drew a quick picture of each one. 

Next my preschooler (3.5) and toddler (22 months) roamed around our yard to find the objects we wrote down and then when they found one they placed it on the paper! Then they went and found another one. This activity was SO EASY, but rewarding since the kids experienced success quickly.

After the kids hunted for the different objects, then they used the ViewScope to look at the objects a little deeper.

The Learning Resources Primary Science ViewScope is for kids 3+ so while my toddler loved it and absolutely HAD to carry it around with him, I am not sure if he could see anything.

He didn't care though... he just thought it was cool to try and look through the ViewScope and try and be like his big sister.

A few things we loved about the ViewScope...

• It was chunky and easy to hold

• It was built tough! It was dropped several times on our cement outside and held up well!

• The colors and shape are very appealing to kids! Mine wanted to hold it the second they saw it.

• It came with a plastic specimen container that the kids could put items inside to look at (like bugs! :))

• The base was easily detachable from the viewer so it could be used at a table or taken apart and carried around outside!

• It has 20x magnification and a focus knob and it is so easy to use!

We think this Primary Science ViewScope is so awesome, which is why we are excited to be giving away ONE to a lucky Toddler Approved reader today.

Giveaway

Enter to win your own Primary Science ViewScope.

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• This giveaway is open for entry from Tuesday, August 26th to Tuesday, September 2nd at 12:00am (PST)
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Do you love science? Check out these two other favorite Toddler Approved science activities...

• Fizzy Ice
• Cookie Cutter Science

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Learning Resources. All opinions are my own.