Outdoor Education

Welcome to a play-based, year-long kindergarten resource designed to align with the Ontario FDK (Full-Day Kindergarten) Program! This bundle includes everything you need for the entire school year — from social and emotional learning to printables and hands-on activities that nurture creativity, curiosity, and confidence in young learners.  Developed with the Ontario Kindergarten Program’s overall and specific expectations in mind, this resource makes it super simple to plan, teach, and engage — while keeping learning joyful and meaningful.

Get ready for muddy, messy, and magical learning!  This play-based early years resource is all about mud pie and dirt dessert fun — packed with sensory-rich activities your students will love! Designed for Pre-K and Kindergarten, this hands-on bundle supports learning through art, fine motor, math, and literacy while celebrating creativity and outdoor exploration.

Perfect for outdoor education, learning buddies, or classroom centers, these activities help children build essential skills while engaging their senses and imagination. Best of all, it’s low-prep and reusable every year — just print, play, and enjoy!

Grab your binoculars and head outdoors — it’s time for a Bird Watch, Draw & Tally Marks Activity! 🐦 Perfect for kindergarten and preschool, this play-based outdoor education resource encourages curiosity, observation, and early math skills through hands-on fun. Children will spot birds, draw what they see, and record their findings using tally marks, combining science, art, and math in one joyful learning experience. 

Get ready for some wild fine motor fun! 🦌 This Kindergarten Animal Tracks Cut & Glue Activity invites little learners to match animal footprints to their owners — from bears and raccoons to squirrels, rabbits, and deer! With two differentiated templates and a bonus animal tracks crown craft, this hands-on printable is perfect for winter themes, animal units, or outdoor learning. Reuse it every year to spark curiosity and encourage families to explore tracks on nature walks!

Let’s go cloud watching! 🌤️ This play-based outdoor education resource helps children explore and identify the three most common types of clouds in a fun, hands-on way. The easy-to-use cloud identifier keeps learning simple and engaging — no clutter, just curiosity! Students can use the observation page to draw and label what they see in the sky. Perfect for outdoor learning, cloud inquiries, or weather units, this printable works for any grade and can be reused every year! 

Let’s feed our feathered friends! 🌻 This outdoor education printable includes four simple homemade bird feeder ideas with step-by-step instructions — all on one easy-to-use page! Perfect for kindergarten, preschool, or special education, this activity encourages hands-on learning, fine motor skills, and nature connection. A bonus bird feeder coloring page adds extra creativity and fun. Use this engaging early years resource at school or home to inspire curiosity, kindness, and care for local wildlife — and reuse it every year! 

🍁 Let’s head outside and explore the magic of leaves! 🍂 This outdoor education bundle is perfect for preschool to Grade 6 and includes color and black-and-white printables designed to support Ontario educators—and adaptable for use anywhere in North America. With fun, hands-on leaf activities and learning tools, your students will connect with nature while building curiosity, observation, and fine motor skills. Perfect for any outdoor classroom or forest school, this reusable resource makes leaf learning simple, engaging, and fun!

A low prep, play-based fall inquiry unit exploring the Woolly Bear Caterpillar life cycle! Includes 30+ printable pages, crafts, fine motor centers, science charts, mini story, and more — perfect for outdoor learning, kindergarten science, and fall exploration!  Every year, students spot the woolly bear caterpillar outside — and it naturally sparks an exciting fall inquiry full of curiosity, wonder, and discovery. This resource was created to help teachers capture that authentic moment of learning and turn it into a rich, cross-curricular experience that builds science, literacy, math, fine motor, and art skills — with little to no prep required! 

 Invite young learners into a rich, hands-on exploration of one of nature’s most captivating backyard birds — the Blue Jay. This beautifully illustrated, play-based Blue Jay Inquiry Bundle supports early learning through science, literacy, art, and observational thinking.

Children investigate nesting habits, food sources, communication, and seasonal behaviors through centers, crafts, life cycle activities, playdough invitations, labeling, writing prompts, and realistic watercolor images that bring this vibrant bird to life.