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Activities for kids

Learn more about your amazing natural world and how you are part of it. Have a go at these fun challenges, games and crafts.


Big Picture logo.

The Big Picture

Discover why you are as important to the natural world as the humble honey bee.
The Outlook for Someday logo.

The Outlook for Someday - the sustainability film challenge for young people

'The Outlook for Someday' challenges young New Zealanders to make a sustainability-related film.
Native species chart.

What New Zealand native species are you?

Use the chart to find out what native species you most closely match.
Storyteller Joe Harawira shares traditional Maori values about the natural world. Photo: Josh Dahllberg, Video Works.

Joe Harawira: Aroha and Manaaki

Watch and listen as renowned storyteller Joe Harawira tells you about Aroha and Manaaki.
The Bugman Ruud Kleinpaste and Claudia May - without bees, what would we have for breakfast? Photo: Tristan Kleinpaste.

Without nature you wouldn't have breakfast

Watch the Bugman and assistant Claudia May. Get up close to bugs and birds. Find out what they do for us.
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Fun nature games

Test your skills in the Tripwire of Terror and other fun online nature games.
Freshwater card game.

Freshwater games

Learn about New Zealand's wonderful freshwater ecosystems with these great board and card games brought to you by Hastings Central School.
Verran Primary School children with kākāpō.

Students loving New Zealand

Get inspired about what you can do to show New Zealand you love it by reading about what other Kiwi kids are up to.
Weta.

Things to make

These things to make at home or school feature some of our most-loved fabulous forest creatures.