Explore Nature with blue marble Activties
Get curious with these 1 hour nature activities for all ages
Hands-on, experiential learning about nature inside or outside right in your own yard!
All learners receive a nature trading card and educators / organizers can keep the fun going with a provided follow up activity.
Activities can accommodate up to 28 learners and take 60 min for $80. Available within 1.5 hours of Kingston, Ontario.
Yes, you can book activities during the evening and on weekends!
Activity Legend
Use the symbols to learn more about each activity, ideal ages, indoor or outdoor, Ontario curriculum connected for educators, perfect for birthdays, and if there are any special considerations. If they are grey they don’t apply to that activity.
P - Primary Grades
J - Junior Grades
I - Intermediate Grades
Y/A - Youth and Adults
Tree - Outdoors
House - Indoors
Balloons - Birthdays
blue marble logo - special considerations.
Popular Activities
We have more activities than this, just email us to inquire about topics you’re interested in if you don’t see them here.
Bee-venture
Investigate the life of honeybees by becoming part of the hive. Collect nectar, search out food sources, and communicate with a waggle dance.
Dreaming Octopus
Yes octopuses dream, but even more exciting is how they change colour during their dreams. This adaption of colour changing leads to an exploration of other adaptations in the natural world. Learners will pick their favourite adaptations to create their own creatures.
Environmental Field Work
an exploration of environmental science field work activities. Choose which two careers you’d like to explore: geology (fossils), ecology (biodiversity), hydrology (water quality), and restoration science (yard improvement).
Escape Mission
You and your frog friends have been randomly dropped by a flock of odd gulls into a different ecosystem and you must escape all the dangers to find your way home. Challenges touch on the Ontario Science Curriculum.
Geology
Explore rock samples and the rock cycle to understand how rocks can tell you about the Earth’s history. We will investigate how a rocks can tell us the different environments that came before, how rocks are used today, and more in this guided and self-guided geology discovery activity.
Guided Walk
Let blue marble shower you with interesting nature facts with real life examples as we walk through a natural area of your choice. Suggest a topic or let us curate something unique for you and the chosen location. Nature walks can include interactive components depending on topic and location.
Habitats
Investigate animals, habitats, and the needs of living things with 2 activities that get your learners curious.
Maple Math
Being a maple syrup farmer requires math in order to know how many taps a tree can take, how much sap they need to make 1L of syrup. Using their new maple knowledge, learners will determine how much maple syrup their maple trees can produce.
Paper Making
Discover the world of making hand crafted paper! How is paper made? What is paper made of? Are there different types of paper? Join us on a journey to make your own paper from recycled materials.
Plants
It is crazy that plants can create their own food! Explore plants and what they need to survive with this relay-style challenge. Finish with planting your own seeds and exploring edible sprouts (lentils).
Reptiles and Amphibians
Reptiles and amphibians are very similar but not the same. Learn the differences and traits of each through a game of life.
Soils
Take a close up look at 3 different soils to explore what soils are made of. Create your own soil profile to help clean “dirty” water as we discuss the importance of soils.
Water Filtration
The City of Naturetown needs to find a solution for a drainage issue. In a new residential subdivision water has been accumulating in the ditches in front of the houses, along the road. Learners have been hired by the City to determine what materials should be used to solve the drainage problem. Through testing, learners will determine which materials drains best and propose a solution. *Special video instructions included.
Wool Felting
Discover the world of wool! What is wool? How do we get yarn from sheep wool? What else can you do with wool? Try your hand at wool needle felting your very ornament that you can keep.
Looking for a different nature topic? We have more that we can offer on topics such as worms, towers, pulleys, magnets, seeds, flight, ants, biologist, populations, drinking water, physics, fish, and more. Email us for more details
Cancellation and Refund Policy Summary
Cancellation
You can cancel for any reason and receive a full refund if the activity is cancelled 48 hours before the scheduled day. A partial refund of 50% of the original cost can be obtained up until 24 hours before the scheduled activity.
Rescheduling an activity
You can reschedule one of our existing in-person activities at any time up to 48 hours before the scheduled activity. Once an activity is rescheduled the refund policy above does not apply and cancellation will result in being charged in full. Rescheduling can occur a maximum of two times.
Activity Delays
If an in-person activity is delayed due to late arrival time by the participating group, we will work to complete the activity in the time remaining from the 1 hour time slot booked. This may result in some aspects of the activity needing to be eliminated. As a result, please note that activities booked for a certain time will begin promptly at that time (with a 5 min grace window).