It’s Field Trip Week in Exploring Nature With Children
Here are some links to help with your nature study:
- Planning a Nature Walk for Kids
- Woodland Trust activities & ideas
- Outdoor field trip ideas
- Sketching on location
Happy exploring!
Category: Summer
Calendar of Firsts : Week 28
St. Swinthin’s Day, ripe raspberries in the garden, and a Dragonfly flying overhead at twilight. Possibly a Hawker.
Moth Week : Exploring Nature With Children
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Moth Week’.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
- How to tell the difference between moths and butterflies
- How to draw a Peppered Moth
- How to draw insects: John Muir Laws
- How to attract moths to your garden
Happy exploring!
Weather Week: Exploring Nature With Children
Sunday the 15th of July is Saint Swinthin’s Day. This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Weather Week’.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
- St. Swithin’s Day: Weather legend may be closer to the truth than you think.
- Storms: Bill Nye the Science Guy (Video)
- How to Draw Cloud Shapes: John Muir Laws
- How to Draw Clouds in perspective: John Muir Laws
- How to Paint Skies in Watercolour I: John Muir Laws
- How to Paint Skies in Watercolour II: John Muir Laws
Happy exploring!
Summer Trees Week: Exploring Nature With Children
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Summer Tree Study Week’.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
- Claire Walker Leslie’s Guide To Sketching Trees
- How To Draw Trees (Video Workshop) John Muir Laws
- The Habitat Song
- Bill Nye the Science Guy: Forests
Happy exploring!
Current Nature Journaling
Rosie’s Phenology Wheel.
Currently, there is a wild fire raging on the moors near to our home. Rose has been greatly upset by the impact this is having on our local wildlife, hence her sketch for June.
In the mid-section, she recorded the Summer Solstice.
My own entry for June:
The Summer Solstice, and a Wild Rose. In the mid-section, I recorded Saint John’s Tide.
Midsummer is a lovely time to begin a Phenology Wheel, if you haven’t yet begun your own. I’ve written a guide all about keeping a Phenology Wheels.
Calendar of Firsts: Week 26
A Roe Deer that crossed our path this week, and the Moors’ wild fires, which are sadly burning near our home.
Happy July!
“Hot July brings cooling showers,
Apricots and gillyflowers.”
Sara Coleridge
Blossom Week : Exploring Nature With Children
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Blossom Week’.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
- Bill Nye the Science Guy: Flowers
- Brambles
- Blackberry or Black Raspberry?
- An Identification Guide to Berries
Happy exploring!
Happy Summer Solstice!
Happy exploring on this the longest day of the year!
Summer Solstice Week : Exploring Nature With Children
This week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Summer Solstice Week’.
Here are some helpful links to get you going:
- Bill Nye The Science Guy: The Seasons
- 11 Things about the Summer Solstice
- Why the days are shorter in winter & longer in summer (video)
Happy exploring!