Texture Trail

Take your class or a small group on a walk in the playground or in a nature area. Ask them to feel and touch things around them.

How many textures can you touch?

• Soggy decomposing leaves
• Lacy skeleton leaves
• Silky flower petals
• Tickly lichen
• Flexible grasses
• Rough tree roots
• Furry moss
• Rigid bark
• Brittle twigs
• Prickly pine needles
• Smooth flower buds
• Crumbly rotten wood
• Waxy evergreen leaves
• Gritty soil from a mole hill
• Sticky horse chestnut buds