Nature study

[RubySlippers77]

I love the idea of doing something like this with my twins (who will be 4 in October) but it seems a bit expensive - plus we have no printer at home, so I'd have to buy a printer too or pay for printing, more ££! Can anyone recommend a similar book or journal (maybe UK based?) that I could buy instead? Or if anyone has bought this and thinks it's great and worth the money, that would be useful to hear too!

raisinglittleshoots.com/buy-exploring-nature-with-children-a-guided-journal/

Looks like a waste of money. I've seen better in national trust shops. Why would you want poetry pages for your child to trace over the lettering? That would kill any interest in the book for a start. Then blank pages for your child's drawings? And a page where they can write their firsts?

I bet you could find more interesting stuff on Pinterest for free, or as I said in the national trust. Their things to do before you're 11 and 3/4 books are more interesting.

A trip to wilko for:

• scrapbook
• sticky back plastic
• glue stick
• felt tips
• crayons
• poster paints

Then you can either free form it or separate the scrapbook into sections and add in headers for the pages that they fill out.

• leaf printing with paints
• bark rubbings using the crayons
• collect and press flowers, stick in books with sticky back plastic
• find sticks and make a little mosaic/picture in the book
• have a page listing the animals you see on walks in the park
• use the paints to colour in rocks, stick in photos
• leafs from different seasons on a page, under sticky back plastic, or leafs with the tree they came from written next to it
• collect feathers and name the birds they came from in the book
• google plants, flowers and trees from your locale and write them in the book with check boxes next to them, tick them off as you find them.

Another idea: DD (5yo) found a 'food for free' book on one of our book shelves and fell in love with it, so yesterday we picked blackberries from the garden, made a crumble and she wrote out the recipe in her notebook.

You could go for a walk in the countryside, looking for elderberries, nettles, rosehips, crab apples, acorns.... and then look up some recipes.

I love that idea @Lwmommy

Thank you for the ideas @Lwmommy and @MyOtherProfile! Good to get some feedback. I guess my DC work better with some structure, which was why I thought of a workbook, but I could definitely make one up myself with those bits + some time on Pinterest..... probably a project for when the little horrors darlings go back to school though and I have a couple of hours to myself!

You absolutely could. A scrap book each to put all your nature related stuff in would be lovely.