Laying under trees and looking up, leaf rguibnbs, scavenger hunts (i.e. give your child a brown paper bag or small container and ask them to find treasures in the yard.), flower dissections (pulled apart many flowers for inspection when I was little, still do) make a mud puddle in the yard to play in, magnifying glass in the garden (no frying ants, please), camping in the backyard (or farther away, for the more adventurous, visit independently owned and run garden centers or nurseries (the staff will know more, and are often willing to humor children wanting to play or interact with the surroundings) or wholesale plant growers many are now selling to the public and a field of gaillardia en mass is amazing, even if they are in black buckets.

If time is money you've made me a weatliher woman.