We are fast approaching Christmas, and any parent who values their sanity, looks to buy gifts that will last long after the holiday season, rather than requiring a new set of batteries every few weeks!
To help make gift giving that little bit easier, here is a list of wonderful presents that will delight your nature-loving child.
Binoculars and Birdwatching Book
A smashing combination that will have your child out of doors over the Christmas holiday, instead of cooped up indoors. Add a small notebook and pencil if your child is writing and they can record all the birds they see.
A great way to teach respect for living creatures, whilst allowing your child to explore and observe them.
A beautiful wooden puzzle, perfect for small hands that need to be busy on bad-weather days.
A Nature Magazine Subscription
Flower Press and Wild Flower Guide
More useful in Spring and Summer, but your child will be able to make some beautiful pressings of evergreens over the Winter holiday.
Indoor Bulbs for Winter Forcing
Enjoy the beauty and fragrance of flowers during the dreary, cold months by giving your child build suitable for forcing indoors during winter time.
These soft toy birds with their authentic bird calls were a real hit with my children when they were younger!
Nature’s Collection 1000 Piece Jigsaw
A smashing jigsaw for older children featuring some lovely nature photography. Perfect for cosy afternoons at home after a brisk morning walk.
A more expensive option, but this would make a smashing family gift! Fantastic for filming local wildlife, and will film underwater, too.
Gardening tools and gift voucher
Get your child all fired up for spring, with their own gardening tools. A gift voucher for a local garden centre will allow them a morning choosing their very own packets of seeds; there are some types of flowers and vegetables that are particularly easy to grow & interesting for young children.
America’s National Parks – A Pop Up Book
For my American friends, or those who love America, this is a smashing book that brings the parks of America to life, whilst raising funds for their upkeep.
Finally, consider my book Exploring Nature With Children, as a gift for the whole family.
A complete, year-long curriculum designed to guide you, step by step, through an entire calendar year of nature study. Completely self-contained, this book has all the information you need to make nature study happen regularly for your family.
As an early Christmas present to my readers, enjoy a 30% discount by using coupon code CHRISTMAS15 which is valid until December 25th.
These are great! Thank you!
My pleasure 🙂
Hi Lynn
This is a great list, we will be ordering the magazine for my daughter today, it looks great. I think the only thing I could add to this list is a bug viewer and any book by Nick Baker.
My daughter has a flower press and she uses it obsessively, we all have binoculars (but we don’t always remember to take then with us)
We are thinking about investing in a bird box with a webcam as a family gift, but I would love the camera you list.
Best wishes
Jenny
Oooh, Jenny! What a great idea – bird box & webcam. Thank you.
I hope your daughter enjoys Eco Kids.
Thank you for the gift ideas! I’m putting them on my list for nieces and nephews 🙂
If you have any homemade nature-themed craft ideas for gifts, I’d love to hear (especially ones that could be made by children – but ones by grown ups are good too!).
We are LOVING your nature study… it’s one of the classes we keep up with even on our “off” weeks. <3
Kim
Thank you for the suggestion Kim!
Really glad to hear you are enjoying the nature study so much 🙂 Makes me really happy!