You choose... Natural Ruler

With your ruler, find something around you that is almost exactly one inch long. Then find something two inches long and so on. Then draw a ruler on your piece of paper, but instead of using numbers at each inch mark, write down what you found in nature. For example, where it would normally say one inch, you might write "caterpillar", and two inches might be "feather". Now use your new "natural ruler" to measure larger things and record their size in natural measurement.

Great for... Fine-tuning your child's motor co-ordination - and giving them a new perspective on the world, which will remind them to notice nature in the world around them.

Materials: A ruler, pen and paper