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Published: Jun 12, 2014 · Modified: Aug 12, 2022 by Birute Efe · This post may contain affiliate links · 6 Comments

Fun Rock Activities for Kids for outdoor play

Fun Rock Activities For Kids

Have you ever thought of fun free games like rock activities for kids? Summer is officially here in our part of the world and we are more than excited to tell you more about this!

4 images of fun rock activities

We are so happy to get into playing outdoors all day everyday, so we decided start new series on our blog. It's a challenge our family will take. I will name it FREE PLAY: it's free to your wallet and it's free to the kids, meaning I will try direct and suggest and set up as least as possible. Free play encourages creativity, team work, imagination and problem solving.

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Fun Rock Activities For Kids

Every day I will give my kids one item to play with. The item will be either something from nature (a rock, wooden stick, water) or a household item (straws, pots, buckets, rope).

I will try my best and not interrupt by suggesting what should they play. I am really curious and excited to see what will they come up with.

Let the free play begin...

Today is the first day and we decided to start with fun ROCK activities for kids

So basically we collected a big pile of rocks from our farm property and talked a little about how to play safely with them. The most important rule was "no throwing rocks".

Then, I sat and watched. With my camera in hands.

Here are some of the Rock Activities For Kids I captured:

5 Rock Activities For Kids

1. ROCK JUMPING. Place the rocks in curved line on the ground (preferably grass). Space them out at the size of average child's step. The activity is to jump from rock to rock (on one feet or both feet) without falling off the rock.

It's a great physical activity that will encourage jumping and improve self coordination.

To make it educational you can suggest your children to write lettes or numbers on the rocks and yell them out when one steps on the rock.

4 iamges of rock activities for kids

2. ROCK MAZE. Kids made the maze from rocks. They made a circle shape, but it could be any shape. The bigger the maze the more fun is to play with. My kids tried to jump on feet and get out of the maze, they also tried to go through it with closed eyes.

My toddler had the most fun with it. He was going rounds and rounds and couldn't get out of maze. There were a lot of laughs.

2 iamges of rock activities for kids

3. ROCK HUNTING. Mark or color the rock, hide it and let the other kids find it. Kids tried to play this game with clues.

4. ROCK ROLLING. Neighbor boy came to visit us today and he showed his favorite rock game. Both kids divided rocks into 2 equal parts. Then put 1 rock in the middle of the table and tried to hit it and move it by rolling other rocks (from their piles) into it. There were more rules of this game but I didn't get all of them yet.

2 iamges of .rock activities for kids

5. STORYTELLING WITH ROCKS. For a more quiet  time kids can color the rocks and have a Story Telling Activity.

3 images of kid playing with rocks.

Few tips

  • don't expect kids to play with rocks all day. They may play a game or two and move on to other activity. And that's OK.
  • if you see they are loosing interest of they have lack of ideas on what to play, try adding another item to help them with the ideas.

Kids had a blast playing and were pretty surprised with how fun and easy was to play with rocks. Mostly, they were amazed by the activities they came up with.

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  1. Emma @ P is for Preschooler says

    June 12, 2014 at 7:43 pm

    This series sounds great! I love the idea of letting the kids take the lead (something I could use some reminding on sometimes! lol!)

    Reply
    • Birute Efe says

      June 13, 2014 at 9:43 am

      Emma, yes, the hardest part IS to let the kids lead the activity without telling them your 'brilliant ideas" 🙂 I appreciate your comment, Emma. Thank you so much

      Reply
  2. Don Vitto says

    June 13, 2014 at 12:16 pm

    Birute, where can we find more Sofia Tube series?

    Reply
    • Birute Efe says

      June 13, 2014 at 3:50 pm

      coming up...

      Reply
  3. Sheila says

    June 13, 2014 at 1:19 pm

    Great! Free play is so important for children. I believe it is central to how they learn. Looking forward to the rest of the series. Sharing.

    Reply
    • Birute Efe says

      June 13, 2014 at 3:49 pm

      Thank you Sheila. I strongly believe so too that free play and learning go very well together. IT's just so hard to allow children to play freely without intervention these days...

      Reply

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