How to Make a Children's Nature Journal
Making a children's nature journal is a fun way to spend the summer months and fall with your child. Not only is a nature journal fun; but it's educational, too. Plus, it will create a wonderful memory for your child. Read on to learn more.
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Things You'll Need
- Plastic bags
- Specimens (leaves or flowers)
- Parchment or tissue paper
- Glue
- Notebook or photograph book
Instructions
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Go on a nature hike with your child. Go for a walk around the block, go to a park or to a nature preserve. Depending on your child's age, point out different trees, animals and plants.
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Have your child collect specimens in plastic bags. They can collect anything they want including leaves, flowers, petals and feathers. Heavier, bulkier things like rocks and insects should be avoided unless you want to put these things into a separate box.
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Put the flowers, petals and leaves between two sheets of tissue or parchment paper when you get home.
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Place the tissue or parchment paper between two heavy books and leave them alone for a few days.
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Take your pressed leaves, petals and flowers and gently glue them onto the pages of a journal. This journal can be a simple notebook or it can be a photograph album with contact paper.
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Help your child research the leaves, flowers and feathers and label them with the names of the plants or animals. Also, label them with the name of the person who collected them and the place where they were found.
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Use the journal for more than just a remembrance of leaves and petals. Have your child write their thoughts, draw pictures, glue in pictures from a camera or write poems in it.
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