Outdoor STEM Activities | Nature STEM | Spring STEM | K-2 Outdoor Learning

Want to take your students outside… but still keep learning meaningful and academic?

These Outdoor Nature STEM Mats make it easy to take learning outdoors while students build, explore, measure, and investigate using natural materials.

Just print, grab a clipboard, and head outside. Students collect items from nature and complete engaging STEM challenges that build science, math, and problem-solving skills — all while enjoying hands-on outdoor learning.

This is purposeful outdoor learning — not just play.

✨ Students are actively:
• Engineering and building
• Sorting and classifying
• Measuring and comparing
• Observing and investigating
• Identifying plant parts
• Recognizing patterns
• Exploring living vs. non-living
• Problem solving using natural materials

💖 Perfect for:
• Outdoor learning
• Spring STEM activities
• End-of-year engagement
• Nature-based learning
• STEM centers
• Science exploration
• Low-prep learning

✅ What’s Included:

9 Outdoor STEM Challenge Mats:

• Rainbow Building STEM Challenge
• Bug Path & Bridge STEM Challenge
• Bug House Habitat STEM Challenge
• Parts of a Plant STEM Challenge
• Nature Measurement STEM Challenge
• Nature Sorting STEM Challenge
• Nature Pattern STEM Challenge
• Size Sorting STEM Challenge

• Build a Tower STEM Challenge

🍎 Why Teachers Love This

• Just print and go
• No prep required
• Uses natural materials
• Encourages creativity and problem solving
• Engaging and hands-on
• Perfect for outdoor learning
• Meaningful academic learning outside

Skills Students Practice

🎯 Students will:

• Build and design
• Sort and classify
• Measure and compare
• Identify plant parts
• Recognize patterns
• Explore living vs. non-living
• Develop engineering skills
• Problem solve
• Observe and investigate

✨ Perfect For

• Kindergarten
• First Grade
• Second Grade
• Outdoor classrooms
• Spring learning
• End-of-year activities
• STEM centers
• Nature-based learning

This resource makes it simple to take learning outside while keeping students engaged, thinking, and exploring through meaningful hands-on STEM activities.

Just print, head outside, and start learning.