Use strips of coloured card and double sided tape to make bracelets that children can decorate with things they collect as they walk.

Using a small container such as a matchbox, challenge children to find as many different items as they can on the walk that will fit inside. Who can collect the most items or find the most unusual one?

Grab a stick and some string. As children walk along, they can tie treasure they collect to their stick. Each treasure should represent a section of the trail. If they tie them in sequence, they can use the stick to retell their journey.

The Wildlife Watch website has loads of free, downloadable spotter sheets. There are ones for every season, species and habitat that you will find in the British countryside. There are also free downloads for wildlife based crafts and activities.

Using the free app by iNaturalist, we like to put a name to the new plants we spot on our walks. Children can point the camera at a flower and the app will instantly identify it for them.

Available on Amazon, this is a great little pack of cards to have in your pocket on a walk. Children can race each other to find items that match the adjective.

Cut a strip of card and attach to wear as a crown. Stick a length of double sided sticky take on and then children can collect autumn leaves to decorate.

Print out a grid with some of the sounds you are likely to hear on your walk. You could include bees buzzing, tractor engines, waves crashing, sheep bleating, children playing or aeroplanes overhead. Children tick off each sound when they hear them.

With a bit of string in your pocket, it is easy enough to collect the rest of the materials needed to build a raft and add excitement to any walk with a stream or bridge.

We bought this kit from Aldi, but other brands are available. It all packs down into a small canvas backpack, which is the perfect size for little ones to carry. All you need is two trees and children can set up camp on your woodland walk.

We love these mini spotter guides by Usborne. We also have ones on trees, sea-shore life and bugs. There are stickers in the back that children can add to a chart when they have spotted something.

This is so quick and easy to set up! I just used coloured pens to add a colour spot to each section of an old egg box. The challenge is to find treasures to match each colour.

Costing only a few pounds, this book is full of photos of things children might spot on a walk. Tick the box when you find them and add up your score. Common items have low scores and rare items can be worth hundreds of points!

This activity can keep children busy on two walks. On the first, they need to look out for suitable ricks to collect and bring home to decorate. On the next walk, they can hide them for others to find.

We made these keyrings using items we collected on our walk. The chains had small pins which we could attach our treasures with.

On a shoreline walk children can enjoy hunting for items that the tide has washed up, as well as helping to clean the area too. We like to think up stories for the items we find - who lost it and where has it come from?

Many of our walks are along coastal areas or sandy heaths. Any paper and pen game can be adapted to a sand game. We like to play hangman, noughts and crosses or target throw.

A cold winter walk can be made all the more enjoyable with a stop for a drink from a warming flask of hot chocolate. Don’t forget the marshmallows!

Let the children take over the photography. They can chose how to document the walk or perhaps suggest a theme or items they should look out for. We enjoy printing them out when we get home and the children make scrapbooks..

Take a magnifying glass and get looking under logs, stones and bark to see what mini beasts you can find. There are lots of identification sheets on the internet that you can download and print to take with you.

We always have a fishing net or two in the back of the car ready for when we find a paddling spot. The retractable ones are great as they can fit inside a back back.

Hand over the map reading responsibilities to the children. Feeling like they are the leaders on a walk is a great motivation. Our children particularly enjoy following our progress on live mapping apps (we use the Ordinance Survey one)

Give children a clipboard and a blank piece of paper and have them create a map of the route. They can design a key for the different features they spot along the way.

It is well worth investing in a pair of child friendly binoculars for those walks with views. They are perfect for wildlife spotting and long range scavenger hunting.

This mobile swing by Hape folds up into a pocket size swing and can be easily connected to a pair of trees for swing fun on any woodland walk.

Setting a step target is such a good way to motivate children on walks, that ours will ask to go further just to make sure they hit their quota.

Have a backpack ready and stuffed with all the items needed for an outdoor adventure such as magnifying glasses, binoculars, wildlife spotter guides, pencil and paper, scrunch buckets, bug viewers, compasses - the list is endless!