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Adopt a Tree
Kids love blindfold games, and this one is no exception. In an area of the woods with a fair number of trees and not too much underbrush, blindfold your child and spin her around.
Taking a circuitous route, walk her to a tree and place her in front of it. Encourage her to feel the texture and irregularities of its bark and to rub her cheek against it. Invite her to smell the tree and to walk slowly around it, feeling with an outstretched hand for trees or plants growing close by.
If there are special features of the tree that she is missing, guide her toward them. Be sure she wraps her arms as far around the trunk as she can to get an idea of its size. When she is done exploring, lead her away from the tree by a roundabout path and remove the blindfold.
Then, challenge her to find "her" tree. After a few false starts, my daughters each zeroed in on their trees and repeated all the touching, smelling and hugging as they verified that they had found their arboreal friends.
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