Plants

Games/Activities:

Ideas on how to incorporate theme:

Familiarize yourself with ethical harvesting and safety around teaching plants, especially edible plants
Focus on a different plant every day. You could introduce the new daily plants as a mystery and have your flock look for it while they travel to their basecamp
Go on plant walks using field guides
Make cordage using dogbane or basswood
Cook with different wild edibles (tea, pesto, soup, pizza, etc.)
Discussing the age/life cycle of different plants can be a really fun thing to do with campers

Give each camper a piece of light colored cloth
Collect different plants to use
Find a hard surface and place fabric on it
Arrange collected plants on half of the cloth and fold the other half over to cover them up
Use a rock to gently hit the cloth and open it up to see what it looks like

split the flock into 3 to 4 groups and have each go in a different direction (North, South, East, West) for about 10 mins
After 10 mins they stop where they are and find plants unique to their area and come back to the center to share/compare with the other groups

Have your flock partner up. One partner will be blindfolded and the other will guide them
The person guiding brings their blindfolded partner to a tree, who has to use their senses to familiarize themselves with this tree
Then the blindfolded partner is guided away from that tree and told they can take their blindfold off and try to find the tree they just met
Partners should switch

Collect several different plants
Show them to your flock on a bandana and after a set amount of time, cover them up with another bandana
Ask your flock to go and find the same plants that you showed them

Take a large leaf (sycamore leaves are great for this!) and break it into pieces
Ask your flock to try and put it back together