Get Outdoors Challenge Fall Activities - Girl Scouts

Get Outdoors FAll! Challenge

Get Outdoors Challenge Fall Activities

1. Visit an apple orchard.

25. Build a scarecrow to decorate your yard.

2. Create leaf rubbings.

26. Collect five different leaves and identify them.

3. Stuff leaves into a bag and decorate them 27. Earn the Trail Adventure badge for your

like jack-o-lanterns.

Girl Scout level.

4. Attend a fall or harvest festival.

28. Get lost in a corn maze.

5. Have a pumpkin carving party.

29. Visit a state park.

6. Visit a national park or forest.

30. Visit a nature center.

7. Collect acorns and paint faces on them.

31. Go trick or treating.

8. Go on a "color hike" to spot natural items 32. Have a costume parade with your family

that are yellow, orange, red, and brown.

and neighbors.

9. Have a s'more at a campfire.

33. Play hide-and-seek with glow sticks.

10. Play your own game of flag football or capture the flag outside.

34. Collect falling leaves and put them in an album or journal.

11. Take a hike to view the fall foliage.

35. Go stargazing.

12. Plant spring bulbs.

36. Build a leaf fort.

13. Visit a farm or roadside farm stand.

37. Attend a GSWPA Camp Creepy event.

14. Dress up in a costume and go trick-ortreating.

38. Collect fallen natural items and make a cornucopia.

15. Use a journal to track the changing colors 39. Learn about photosynthesis and why

of the leaves in your yard or neighborhood.

leaves change color.

16. Make a leaf maze or labyrinth.

40. Go geocaching or letterboxing.

48. Jump into a leaf pile. 49. Visit a zoo. 50. Roll down hills to hear the leaves crunch

underneath you. 51. Visit a pumpkin patch. 52. Visit a local park or playground. 53. Go on a bike ride. 54. Enjoy some hot cider outside. 55. Attend an outdoor sporting event (such

as football, soccer, or baseball). 56. Host a fall-themed scavenger hunt. 57. Tell stories or sing songs around a

campfire. 58. Collect pine cones to decorate with. 59. Taste test four different kinds of apples. 60. Stay overnight at a GSWPA camp. 61. Observe squirrels caching food for the

winter. 62. Plant winter veggies like kale, spinach,

lettuce, or asparagus. 63. Visit a botanic garden or arboretum.

17. Watch birds fly south for the winter.

18. Complete the Outdoor Art badge for your Girl Scout level.

19. Do yoga outside in the crisp fall air.

20. Go on a picnic.

21. Learn about fall weather events including hurricanes.

22. Keep a nature journal to track the decreasing sunlight and temperatures.

23. Learn the difference between a solstice and an equinox.

24. Learn about the difference between deciduous and evergreen trees.

41. Find four constellations in the night sky. 64. Watch a meteor shower.

42. Make an obstacle course in your yard or 65. Observe a full moon (Harvest Moon or

local park.

Hunter's Moon).

43. Make a bug hotel for wintering insects. 66. Make a sidewalk chalk mural.

44. Take a Thanksgiving nature walk.

67. Catch a falling leaf for good luck.

45. Have a first frost celebration after the first frost of the season.

68. Create a thankfulness tree with things you are thankful for written on the leaves.

46. Take a "five senses hike" to connect with 69. Cook or bake something with harvest

nature through your senses.

fruits or vegetables.

47. Find a seed pod and learn about what they are.

70. Use a magnifying glass to investigate leaves up close and learn their role in plant/tree growth.

Send pictures/videos of your outdoor adventures to

GSWPA at getoutdoors.

Instructions: From October 1 to December 31, complete the required number of fall activities, and from January 1 to March 31, complete the required number of winter activities for your grade level to earn your Get Outdoors Challenge patch or your fall/ winter leaves if you have already earned the main patch in a previous Get Outdoors Challenge season. When you've checked off the required number of activities for both seasons, visit get outdoors by April 30 to register to receive your patch or fall/ winter leaves for $4.

Number of Activities Required Per Grade Level

Daisy

Brownie

Junior

Cadette

Senior

Ambassador

Adult

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

For official challenge rules and guidelines, visit getoutdoors.

? 800-248-3355

Get Outdoors WINTER! Challenge

Get Outdoors Challenge Winter Activities

1. Go ice skating.

25. Make a snowman/woman.

48. Make a snow sculpture.

2. Learn how to dress for outside activities in 26. Make a winter wreath with things you

the winter.

gather from outside.

49. Play tic-tac-snow with sticks for Xs and

pine cones for Os.

3. Build a winter bonfire and make s'mores. 27. Catch snowflakes on your tongue.

50. Play tag or hide and seek outside.

4. Find animal tracks in the snow and

research what animal made them.

28. Blow bubbles when it's below freezing

and watch them freeze on the wand.

51. Play or watch a game of broomball or ice

hockey.

5. Hike to your favorite overlook and see how 29. Help decorate the outside of your house 52. Find a small hill and "otter slide" down

it looks without leaves.

for the holidays.

on your belly.

6. Go winter camping. Cabin, lodge, or yurt

camping count!

30. Take a walk with your family or friends to 53. Head out on a photo expedition to take

see your neighbors' holiday decorations.

pictures of the winter landscape.

7. Attend a GSWPA winter event.

31. Go outside and watch the snow fall.

54. Watch for animals -- squirrels, deer, birds.

8. Go on a 1/2 mile winter hike.

32. Visit a nature center in the winter.

55. Do a winter scavenger hunt.

9. Take your dog for a walk.

33. Visit a state park in the winter.

56. Watch the sunrise or sunset.

10. Attend a service unit or troop winter event. 34. Visit a national park in the winter.

57. Look for bird nests in the trees.

11. See what a river looks like in winter.

35. Shovel a neighbor's sidewalk or driveway. 58. Participate in maple sugaring.

12. Talk to a Ski Patrol about his or her job.

36. Pull something in a wagon or sled outside. 59. Learn about avalanches.

13. Learn about hypothermia and frostbite-- 37. Catch snowflakes and look at them with a 60. Make a "maze" in your yard with twigs,

how to prevent and treat.

magnifying glass.

string, or shoveled paths.

14. Go cross-country skiing or snowshoeing. 38. See how many plants you can find outside. 61. Make a winter nature journal.

15. Go downhill skiing or snowboarding.

39. Go on a sleigh ride.

62. Go ice fishing.

16. Go dog sledding or attend a dog-sled race. 40. Take a winter nature walk.

63. Use a ruler to measure snow in your yard.

17. Donate winter gear to a homeless shelter. 41. Write your name in the snow.

64. Make snow ice cream.

18. Attend a winter sporting event.

42. Identify the trees in your neighborhood. 65. Identify some winter constellations.

19. Go sledding, tobogganing, or snow tubing. 43. Decorate a tree in your yard.

66. Make paper snowflake cutouts.

20. Build a snow shelter, fort, or igloo.

44. Drink hot chocolate outside.

67. Keep a weather and snow chart for a week.

21. Use your gloves to "draw" on snow-

covered windshields in a parking lot.

45. Melt a snowball and see how much water 68. Go on a winter picnic. Take blankets,

it holds.

sandwiches, and hot soup in a thermos.

22. Have a snowball fight with your family or friends. 46. Draw pictures of winter scenes.

69. Make a snow angel.

23. Feed the birds--make your own feeder out of pine cones, peanut butter, and birdseed.

47. Make snow paint. Simply add food coloring to water and put in a spray bottle,

24. Host your own backyard Winter Olympics.

then go out and paint your yard!

70. Lay under a decorated tree outside and

enjoy the view.

71. Go winter birdwatching.

Send pictures/videos of your outdoor adventures to GSWPA at getoutdoors.

Instructions: From October 1 to December 31, complete the required number of fall activities, and from January 1 to March 31, complete the required number of winter activities for your grade level to earn your Get Outdoors Challenge patch or your fall/winter leaves if you have already earned the main patch in a previous Get Outdoors Challenge season. When you've checked off the required number of

activities for both seasons, visit get outdoors by April 30 to register to receive your patch or fall/winter leaves for $4.

Number of Activities Required Per Grade Level

Daisy

Brownie

Junior

Cadette

Senior

Ambassador

Adult

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

For official challenge rules and guidelines, visit getoutdoors.

? 800-248-3355

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