The Natural History Museum’s “Activities for All” portal is a broad, flexible hub of Natural History Museum resources and home education resources, tailored to support learners of all ages—indoors and out. The site breaks its offerings into five main categories: Outdoor projects, Explore & play, Survey & monitor nature, Actions to help the planet, and Indoor craft & rainy-day activities.

Among these are things like building a hedgehog home or bird feeder, nature journaling and fungus hunts, participating in citizen science surveys like the Big Seaweed Search, taking personal or household actions for sustainability, and crafts such as cross-stitching a dodo or growing cress caterpillars.

On top of that, there’s a Youth Worker Toolkit designed especially for linking young people to nature in urban spaces. This downloadable toolset gives activity ideas, prompts, and structure for exploring urban species (plants, insects, birds) even in cities, that could be adapted to become a home education resource.

The site contains activities for younger children (roughly 5–7 years) for simpler tasks like journaling, leaf hunts, or crafts, up to pre-teens (10–14 years) for data collection, surveys, and reflecting on environmental action. It supports educational goals in biological processes, ecology, data collection & analysis, and scientific enquiry: children make observations, record and compare, test hypotheses (e.g. which plants attract more insects), and reflect on human impact.

Some tasks are quite open-ended and may need adult scaffolding, especially for younger children, to frame questions or push deeper thinking. While many activities encourage data logging and observation, other aspects of the scientific methods must be drawn out by an adult.

Overall, though, this is a rich collection of natural science resources that can easily be adapted into home education resources. With a little planning or scaffolding, many of these activities can be extended into longer projects—local biodiversity audits, habitat mapping, or citizen science reporting—so the resources works both as a one-off activity menu and a springboard for deeper scientific enquiry.