Nature scavenger hunt

How good are you at finding things in nature? If you are willing and game to look, feel and listen outdoors, we have a challenge for you.

Get your senses ready and start your scavenger hunt in your local area. You might find some of the things on our big list one day and then more the next. You may also like to look at Museums Victoria’s collections online before and after your hunt to give you inspiration.

If you find something amazing or found everything on the list, why not email us at [email protected]

We’d love to hear from you!

Here is your scavenger hunt list:

1. Hear a Magpie’s warble

Black and shite bird standing on grass.

2. Find something that feels rough

Dicksonia antarctica, Soft Tree Fern in Milarri Garden
Dicksonia antarctica, Soft Tree Fern in Milarri Garden

3. Hear a frog call

A Littlejohn's Tree Frog clinging to a branch.

4. Find an animal that only comes out at night

5. Find an animal with 4 legs

Common ring-tailed possum
View in MUSEUMS VICTORIA COLLECTIONS

6. Find a flower the size of your hand

Solanum laciniatum, Kangaroo Apple in Milarri Garden
Solanum laciniatum, Kangaroo Apple in Milarri Garden

7. Find an insect with spots

Orange butterfly with brown patches on wing sitting on curled bark.

8. Find an insect with stripes

A Blue-banded Bee on a plant stem.

9. Find an insect that has see-through wings

A Drone Fly on a white flower.

10. Find a spider web

Spider in web in red light
Bugs Alive! exhibition displays; spider on its web.

11. Find 3 trees with different kinds of bark

Austral Mulberry tree trunk The trunk of an Ironbark tree growing in the Milarri Garden Trunk of the messmate tree showing its characteristic stringy bark.
Austral Mulberry, Ironbark, Messmate growing in the Milarri Garden, Melbourne Museum

12. Find a native pigeon

Crested Pigeon.

13. Find two different mammals - (e.g. kangaroo, dog, cat)

Get creative

1.Make a flower rainbow. When you are out in nature find flowers that are pink, purple, orange, yellow, blue.

Coles Book Arcade plate showing a rainbow
View in MUSEUMS VICTORIA COLLECTIONS

2. Find leaves and sticks to make a bug.

insects made from leaves and twigs insects made from leaves and twigs

We’d love to hear from you!

How many did you find? Did you find something unusual or amazing?  Email us at [email protected]  or share with us on social media using #MelbourneMuseum.

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