Ideas for Nature Walks:

A picnic walk (everyone carries a small part of the final picnic).
Visit a local, organic farm.
On a hike: take care of your Second Body/Buddy. Include regular energy “checks” (Is your heart beating fast? Then, rest.)
Storytelling Walk.  Maybe a Guest Storyteller stops regularly to tell the story in sections.  Or one long stop to tell [...]

Special Trees

Take a nature walk, look at all the trees in the area. Each child looks for a tree which is special to him or her.

Children choose their “special tree”. They can introduce themselves to the tree and tell the tree some special [...]

Seeing Nature’s beauty in us:

Take the children to a place outside and ask them to look around and see what in the natural surroundings they are attracted to, that they find beautiful. Ask them to choose one thing in their environment, whether it’s a tree, a pinecone, a mountain, a cloud, an animal, another person, or a breeze, that [...]

Asking Nature’s Permission:

On a walking meditation, or hike, or just within the retreat grounds, invite children to find a place outside that they are attracted to and interested in.
Invite them to approach this place in silence and to ask for permission to sit or just be there. They listen for a few moments to see how [...]

Watering Seeds Carefully: Giving our happiness seeds a chance to grow

From Mindfulness Bell Issue #34
Note:  What you might say is in boldface.  The answers to questions in parenthesis are the answers our children gave us.  You might need to reword the questions to get similar answers.
Here is what each child will need to do this experiment:
2 clear wide mouth jars or clear plastic cups (or [...]

Baby Chicks: No Birth No Death

Note:  What the teacher might say is in bold.  The answers to questions in parenthesis are the answers our children gave us.  You might need to reword the questions to get similar answers.
Materials: Baby chicks (in a big box with a lid and breathing holes)
Activity:
We are going to hold the baby chicks, but before we [...]