Keep a journal to record adventures and experiences in nature. Write about your observations. There are several examples of writing in the sample journal pages below.
Use pencil, pen, colored pencils, or watercolors. Watch here as Karen Rackliffe, author of (now out-of-print) Wild Days: Creating Discovery Journals, avid nature journalist and veteran homeschool mom, demonstrates how to paint the leaf that you see below in the gallery of sample nature journal pages. Then enjoy the gallery below featuring nature journal pages by children and adults.
Use pencil, pen, colored pencils, or watercolors. Watch here as Karen Rackliffe, author of (now out-of-print) Wild Days: Creating Discovery Journals, avid nature journalist and veteran homeschool mom, demonstrates how to paint the leaf that you see below in the gallery of sample nature journal pages. Then enjoy the gallery below featuring nature journal pages by children and adults.
- Penny on nature hike to Cecret Lake with her 2 oldest in 1987
- Quail by Colton Gardner, age 9
- Child’s page: Lizard
- Penny youngest child and oldest grandchild playing in Atlantic
- A pair of ducks (child)
- Child’s nature page
- Butterfly life cycle (child)
- Record science experiments
- Diagramming parts of a fish
- Nature outing photo
- Science experiement page
- from Penny’s writing camp student
- from another Nature of Writing camp student
- Karen’s fall leaf
- Adult’s nature page using colored pencils
- The Wonder of Nature
- Penny’s nature journal page
- Penny’s journal page with copywork
- Yellowstone by Karen Rackliffe
- Birds by Jordan River, Karen Rackliffe
- Karen’s trip to Europe recorded in a travel journal
- Camping and hiking
- Photo by 6-year-old after studying Ansel Adams for art appreciation
- Trip to Grand Canyon, Karen Rackliffe