Orienteering activities for kids

Orienteering is an exciting adventure sport providing lots of great learning opportunities. These orienteering for kids activities will get you started.

Orienteering is a great activity to do as a family and teaches your kids map reading skills. There are also places you can easily give it a go. Read more.

Are your kids bored? Starting to pester each other? Are YOU bored? Well friends, I have the answer ... a SCAVENGER HUNT! Scavenger hunts are so much fun for kids and a great way to turn any day around. I wanted to share scavenger hunt ideas for kids with you right here so you would

Teach kids how to mark a trail using sticks or rocks with this simple trail signs printable. Then use it in a trail signs game for kids of all ages.

Lately, my kids have been very interested in Geocaching. To be honest, when they approached me about this I was extremely skeptical about whether or not this was an appropriate activity that my kids would

Kids love treasure hunts! I love adding a bit of learning into it. When learning about directions, I introduced children to compasses. With compasses in hand, we started our search for treasure. I used it for social studies, but it would be a great party game for kids too.

Orienteering is a lot of fun with this simple orienteering activity to introduce the basics of using a compass for middle school students.

This is a game where students will have to figure out where their classmate was standing by using the compass bearings / degrees and what they have said they could. read more...

Leading kids through orienteering games improves their navigational skills, builds teamwork and the ability to communicate and gets them physical exercise. Most orienteering games utilize a course, which you’ll need to set out ahead of time, and the kids compete using a map to navigate their way through the course as ...

Use this free printable to teach compass directions and other direction vocabulary!