🔍 Discover🌎 Nature
🪟 Window Watching
Ten quiet minutes naming the birds, buses and trees outside.
Ages
0–2
Duration
10 min
Cost
Free
👶 Kid challenge
Easy
🧑 Parent energy
Light · no prep
⚠️ Safety first
Stay in the room. Keep away from window cords and never let them climb to the sill.
You know your child best — supervise the whole time and skip anything that isn't right for them. See our Terms.
Why this is good for your child
- ✓Attention
- ✓Vocabulary
What you need
A window
How to do it
- 1Stand at the window together.
- 2Narrate three things you can both see.
- 3Come back at the same time tomorrow and see what changed.
How it actually goes
The honest version — including what "going well" looks like at this age.
- ⏱ 30-second set-up
- Thirty seconds: put a window on a tray or a clear bit of floor, and sit down next to it before you call them over.
- 🧑 What you do
- Show it once, slowly, without talking over yourself. Then hand it over and stop helping unless they ask.
- 👶 What they do
- Collect, look closely, and ask the questions.
- ✅ What success looks like
- Under 1, watching, mouthing and batting at it is the whole activity. Two minutes of real attention is a good session.
- 🧺 How to put it away
- Everything back into one basket or tray, carried back to its spot by them. Naming the spot out loud is what makes it stick.
- 📈 When they outgrow it
- Older? Look one of the finds up in a book together afterwards.