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Color palette nature hunt (walk time)

January 29th, 2012 | 10 Comments

This was done pre-blog which explains the lack of and fuzzy photos but I will try my best to explain it.

First I drew a color palette shape on a cardboard then I drew little color circles (that matched what I know can be found on our walk, color wise) where the paint goes on a real one and wrote the name under. I then put 2 sided sticky tape on each color circle, you could also use glue dots but I didn’t have any.

Then we went for a walk and brought the palette, at the beginning of our walk I explained to Nico how it worked.You can see it pretty well here.

Of course he had to get a rock all the way up there, the gazillions on the ground were not good enough, especially after I said no to huge rock)

We looked for things that were the same color as the circle. Now he had just turned 2 the week before, so I was kind of pre-spotting colors for him and when I saw something coming I would remind him to look for said color, but he still had lots of fun.

For older children you could let them do it on their own or even just write the colors and not color in the circles, but have them do it before the walk.

If you do this, we’d LOVE to see a photo of it. Email it
to us or post it on our Facebook page. We’d love to do a Facebook album, a Pinterest board and a page of your creations

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Valerie is the creative mind behind "Glittering Muffins", stay-at-home mom of Nico, a little dynamo that is bursting with energy. He also is the inspiration behind the blog (and the name) with his keen interest in cooking, baking and, well, glitter. Valerie constantly is thinking about twists to the traditional arts, crafts and recipes to make them her own and is inspiring others while doing so. Outside of the blogging world, her main activity is Nico, with the occasional TV show (non-toddler related) and casual game here and there.

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10 Responses to "Color palette nature hunt (walk time)"

Lauren says:

January 29, 2012 at 21:10

This is wonderful! What a great idea. I will for sure be doing this with my daughter.

I’d love for you to link up and share any outdoor ideas at my Come & Play Outside link party: http://tutusandteaparties.blogspot.com/p/come-play-outside.html

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Joyce @Dinosaurs And Octopuses says:

January 30, 2012 at 01:55

I love the pictures. He’s such a cutie! I bet he had a lot of fun. We use to do this all the time too, but never included that awesome color palette idea. We painted the inside of an egg carton various colors to contain our nature finds.

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1. Valérie says:
  
  January 30, 2012 at 12:51
  
  Thanks! Cool idea with the egg carton
  
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tricia says:

January 31, 2012 at 06:39

Great idea! Using an actual palette is smart!

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JDaniel4s Mom says:

February 2, 2012 at 13:58

This is a great activity. I love the palette idea!

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1. Valérie says:
  
  February 2, 2012 at 14:08
  
  Thanks! Hope you guys have fun doing it and share a photo with us when you do
  
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Trisha @ Inspiration Laboratories says:

March 7, 2012 at 18:12

I love the idea of searching for colors outside! This is on our to-do list now.

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1. Valérie says:
  
  March 7, 2012 at 21:49
  
  Thanks! Please share back on our facebook page when you guys do it, we’d love to see it
  
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Stacie says:

June 8, 2012 at 23:05

I love this idea!! I am adding it to our summer bucket list. My kids are sure to have fun collecting. Thank you

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1. Valérie says:
  
  June 15, 2012 at 21:21
  
  Thanks! We’d love for you to share back on our facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/glitteringmuffins)
  
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