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Above & Below: Pond Unit Study, Hands-on Ideas, & Lapbook (Nature Book Club Link Up 8)

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Whether you study a pond in winter or summer, a pond unit study makes for a great hands-on science project. You can add in so many different nature topics.

There are just as many things that grow above a pond as there are that live below in a pond.

Pond Unit Study and Lapbook

Look at these resources that I gathered up for a pond unit study and then I have a nifty lapbook for you too. Like most all of my unit studies, I give you ideas for Prek to High school.

Looking for a fun and free multiple age Pond Unit Study and lapbook? You’ll love these resources whether you study a pond in the winter, summer, spring or fall. Check out this what is above and what is below in a pond homeschool unit study and free awesome lapbook. CLICK HERE!!

Ron’s pond scum. Neat site with pictures taken through a microscope.
Life in a drop of pond water.
Earth’s Kids – ponds and wetlands science.
A virtual pond dip.
Pond science.

Water holes to mini-pond lesson plan.
Who lives in a pond minibook.
At the pond for the littles.
Pond scum microorganisms.
Small pond creatures.

Pond water web.
Pond life identification.
Let’s visit a pond PreK lesson plan.
Pond animal life printout.
15 Swamp Craft & Activity Ideas.

Missouri pond handbook. Neat resource with lots of information.
Pond ecology.
Pond Theme Activities – Stem – Free Printables
What’s in this water.
Pond life theme for Prek.

Pond Hands-on Ideas

Plastic bag pond.
Explore a pond.
Tadpoles and frogs.
Free land and water form cards.
Wide mouthed frog craft printable.

Pond Sensory Bin.
Cattails craft.
Coffee filter lily pad.
Duck craft handprint.
Pond Dipping Spotter Form.

Pond And Stream Science Activities For Kids.
25 Water Hands-On Activities for Kids.

Above and Below in the Pond

Life in a Pond.
Nature Study: A Week at the Pond.
Identifying pond animals.
Life in a pond study guide.
Studying pond creatures.

Spring to life ponds teachers guide.
Learning Places Pond Unit.
Teachers Guide to Wetland Activities.
Beaver’s teachers guide.
Vernal Ponds: Seasonal Habitats for Wildlife. 

Cattail – this edible plant is also an excellent source of weaving material, tinder, and insect repellent.
The Pond Ecosystem.
The Food Chain in a Pond.
Macroinvertebrate Match-Up Cards.
Wetlands Ecosystem teacher’s guide.

When we did our unit study, I used one book that we had and one book that we wanted.

One book I have because it has easy hands-on activities. It’s the book Rivers, Ponds, and Lakes (Collins Nature Explorers) and the one I had to have is Pond Life: Revised and Updated (A Golden Guide from St. Martin’s Press) because it’s packed with so much information about pond life.

Together these two books made for a great pond study.I was SO pleased with this tiny little guide packed with a HUGE amount of information.

Literally, this guide could fit in a shirt pocket. It’s the perfect size to take to study a pond, stream, or other wetland area.Besides having colorful illustrations which are not goofy looking but perfect for the science-minded, it is chock-full of facts about plants and animals of the pond.The chapters like Characteristics of Water, Habitats, Food Webs, Observing and Collecting, and then Plants and Animals. The plants and animals sections are divided into groups along with pictures of each group.

I’m really pleased with this little guide Pond Life: Revised and Updated (A Golden Guide from St. Martin’s Press).

Then the second book, Rivers, Ponds, and Lakes (Collins Nature Explorers) is one I have and we used it to because it has fun outdoor activities.

A few of the activities are build your own backyard pond, use light to catch fish, and race snails.The chapters in this book are Freshwater habitats, Puddles, Ponds and Lakes, Rivers and Streams and Boggy, soggy swamps. We love the one above about collecting skins and mud tracking.

How to Test Pond Water – Older Kid Outdoor Science Lab

We loved reading and studying about pond life.

There are many fun things to do for younger kids, but one thing we did for an older kid for older kid to make it more of a lab is to use a water testing kit.

The water testing kit came with a mini notebook, a cool TDS meter, vials and test strips.It’s a great way for learning about the water and in your area and to do a lab with an older learner. You’ll want to find 4 different water sources. We used the ditch in the back of our house, the creek from the local park on our walk, bottled water, and tap water.The instructions are on the chart and it gives you an order in which to do the tests.

We checked each sample for chlorine/copper/nitrate/nitrite, then alkalinity/pH/hardness, and lastly the iron.

And yes I know sometimes you don’t have a pond you can get to, but you can get to your backyard for some science. You’ll love this fun hands-on science!
Backyard Science ebook

And another resource we love for nature studies are the NaturExplorers. Look at this one about ponds.


I think you’ll love this next free lapbook in my nature series which is about ponds.

Download this Free Lapbook in my Facebook Group – Homeschool Dynamics by Tina Robertson. 
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(Note: This is a facebook group only freebie.
Please do not email me telling me that you’re not part of my facebook group or don’t have facebook.
Just like I have special freebies for my loyal blog followers I have freebies for facebook followers too.)

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Welcome to the Nature Book Club Monthly Link Up No 8.

The Nature Book Club is a monthly link up beginning on the 20th day of each month.

It’s a monthly book club devoted to connecting children to nature.

Also, join our new Nature Book Club Facebook Group!

Nature Book Club theme for August: Water (Streams, Rivers, & Ponds)

The Nature Book Club is brought to you by these nature loving bloggers which are your co-hosts!
Are you following them? If you don’t want to miss anything, be sure to follow each one.

Seasonal Pond Study and Printables from Barbara at Handbook of Nature Study
Sensory Bin and Observation Notebooking Page from Jenny at Faith & Good Works
Pond Life Printable Pack from Emily at Table Life Blog
Aquatic Science Studies: 10 Activities for Teens from Eva at Eva Varga
Online Book Study about water cycle from Dachelle at Hide the Chocolate
STEAM Challenge – Does Water Ever Flow Up? from Erika at The Playful Scholar
Who Was?® What Was?® Where Is?® Book Series: Where is the Mississippi River? from Sharla at Minnesota Country Girl
River Exploration and Frog Catching from Thaleia at Something 2 Offer

Upcoming theme (September): Prairie Flowers

Party Rules

  • Choose an engaging nature book, do a craft or activity, and add your post to our monthly link up.
  • The link up party goes live at 9:00 a.m. EST on the 20th of each month and stays open until 11:59 p.m. EST on the last day of the month. Hurry to add your links!
  • You can link up to 3 posts.
  • Please do not link up advertising posts, advertise other link up parties, your store, or non-related blog posts. They will be removed.
  • By linking up with us, you agree for us to share your images and give you credit of course if we feature your posts.That’s it!
    Let’s party.
  • Find us #NatureBookClub


Looking for a fun and free multiple age Pond Unit Study and lapbook? You’ll love these resources whether you study a pond in the winter, summer, spring or fall. Check out this what is above and what is below in a pond homeschool unit study and free awesome lapbook. CLICK HERE!!

You’ll love these other resources:

Hugs and love ya,

 

BEST Curriculum by Homeschoolers for Homeschoolers

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Homeschooling today is different than it was when I started. Today, it seems all types of educational companies are wanting to make a buck off of homeschoolers. Don’t get me wrong. I love all the choices, but when it comes to teaching our kids at home some homeschool curriculum is superior to others. One area of curriculum that I’m thrilled to see an explosion in is curriculum by homeschoolers for homeschoolers.

3 Reasons to Love Curriculum by Homeschoolers For Homeschoolers

If you don’t already appreciate why that is important, look at these three reasons why you’ll love curriculum by homeschoolers.

I love all the choices, but when it comes to teaching our kids at home some homeschool curriculum is superior to others. One area of curriculum that I'm thrilled to see an explosion in is curriculum by homeschoolers for homeschoolers. CLICK HERE!Then, you’ll love the round up of homeschool curriculum which makes our job of teaching at home a delight.

One/ Curriculum written by a homeschooler assumes we don’t have a teacher’s background in a subject. You have to love that part.

When I started teaching my first son at home, I remember that the math book which was written for a public school was hard for me to understand.

Like most of you, I’m fairly capable of teaching any subject or at least tackling it if I knew a bit of the background information.

Curriculum written by homeschoolers can take more time to explain the foundation or background of a subject. Giving me a foundation or direction as to what I’m teaching educates me too alongside my kids. It gives me the bigger picture of what I’m aiming for when I teach.

Two/Curriculum written by a homeschooler understands our need to teach multiple ages of children at one time.

I always respect copyright on curriculum; I follow the direction of whether or not I can use it to teach more than one child. Most curriculum I’ve used understands our need to have a teaching tip for a grade up or below the level of the just purchased curriculum. This is a great time-savings tip when teaching our kids together.

Public school curriculum is set out to teach a classroom and the tips are to use for teaching the masses.

Three/Curriculum written by a homeschooler is normally priced better.

Budget is something we have to talk about. I’m not always about free because it’s true you get what you pay for. Again, though, curriculum written by a homeschooler understands our need to stretch our curriculum budget. They try to give us not only great options for purchasing, but deliver it in different formats to save costs.

Curriculum that is unique and hard to find suited for our purpose at home is easier with all the unique finds we have available today.

My reasons for loving special and unique curriculum by homeschoolers could be more expansive, but I wanted to give you a few treasures I’ve enjoyed through the years.

Look at a few of the homeschooling families I’ve come to treasure because of how much they have helped to give my kids an excellent education.

Homeschool Curriculum from the Pak Homeschooling Family

I remember the first time I saw something created by Amy Pak because I absolutely knew her way of teaching history, hands-on and engaging fit my idea of how I thought history should be taught.

Not only have I used their beautiful curriculum with my kids, but I’ve used it in a co-op setting.

After all, hands-on history is so much more fun when you have somebody to make a mess with.

Look here at Amazing Hands-on History Activities for 14 Ancient Empires (free notebook cover too) to see how we had fun with the Great Empires Activity Study,

You’ll love ALL of their hands-on projects and will have a hard time choosing which ones to do this year and which ones to do next year.

Homeschool Curriculum from the Bauer Homeschooling Family

I’ve used a lot of resources by Susan Wise Bauer because they’re timely, rigorous, and easy to use. Did I mention she is a lovely person in person too?

The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind, Writing with Ease and Writing with Skill are just a few of the really helpful and rigorous language arts program.

From elementary to high school, you’ll love how the Bauer family at Peacehill Press lays out their curriculum in a friendly way for the homeschool educator.

Look at her curriculum here on my elementary age language arts Amazon board here, my middle school language arts Amazon board here, and my high school language arts Amazon board here.

Homeschool Curriculum from the Berg Homeschooling Family

Also, from the Russel and Rea Berg homeschool family, you’ll fall in love with all of their products.

I’ve used many of them for years. Be sure you start early collecting their products because I feel at times there are not enough years to homeschool to use them all. I’ve sure tried.

Beautiful feet books is about combining living history with history, geography, or even science to make it meaningful. Look at a few of their beautiful products that you’ll go crazy over.

BEST Curriculum by Homeschoolers

You’ll want to browse all of them from K to High School.

Medieval History Adv. Int. & Jr. High Pack

Early American History Primary

History of Science.

Geography through Literature

Homeschool Curriculum From the Kautzer Homeschooling Family

I remember the first time I used WriteShop, I thought I was in cupcake heaven. Oh, maybe saying that was corny, but I felt like that teaching writing. It was as easy as baking cupcakes.

Many years, we used WriteShop because of all the teacher empowerment tips they give along with planning ideas. I attribute WriteShop with my first son’s love for writing.

WriteShopAdventure Builder StoryBuilders

Homeschool Curriculum From the Hogan Homeschooling Family

The Hogan family has created many helpful programs like their science programs and geography programs. You’ll want to look over the curriculum which just like the others is created to open and easily use.

I love their curriculum because I could get several of it in digital format so that as my sons got older they could keep it on their device.Geography BundleThen, I’ve really been excited about these next two homeschool families because they have filled a void I’ve had for a while when it comes to making literature studies interactive and finding electives.

Homeschool Curriculum From the McVey Homeschooling Family

Literary Adventures for Kids helps parents and students to dig deeper, go on rabbit trails, and add a little adventure all while enjoying great literature.

Facebook and Twitter

And I especially love the high school help.
Poetry and a Movie PIN

Oh I’m not finished yet.

Don’t you love knowing that there is curriculum written by homeschool families with an expert background in just about every subject?

Talking about every subject, we don’t want to leave out enrichment.

Homeschoool Curriculum From the Mayo Homeschooling Family

Anything Gena puts her hand to for enrichment only adds beauty to your homeschool.

You’ll love all of her programs. Below are just a few of them.

Be sure to look over all the courses.

https://learn.musicinourhomeschool.com/courses?affcode=50562_c5avrhro

A lot of easy formatted books like ebooks for science have been a life saver for me too both when we moved overseas and just when I was limited on storage. You’ll love some of these easy science finds too.

Did I mention it’s usually affordable when it’s in a digital format?

Homeschool Curriculum From the Goodwin Homeschooling Family

Not having a science background, I appreciate these families who have a strong science background. They make it easy for me to teach.

Not only do they appreciate I’m a homeschool mom who wants to be involved, but I like things easy for me too.

Hands-On Science Bundle

Homeschool Curriculum From the West Homeschooling Family

I’ve used Cindy’s science living books for multiple ages to save my mind. Easily downloadable and with activities for any season, you’re ready to go with minimal preparation.Look at a few links of how I used her curriculum:

Hands-On Nature Study: Bird Color Bar Graphing Activity, Hands-On Nature Study: Make a Fun Bird Nesting Bag, and Easy and Fun Nature Study: Beautiful Birds.

I love all the choices, but when it comes to teaching our kids at home some homeschool curriculum is superior to others. One area of curriculum that I'm thrilled to see an explosion in is curriculum by homeschoolers for homeschoolers. CLICK HERE!

Too, I want you to know that I believe in supporting families that support our homeschool lifestyle and always look to them first when choosing curriculum.

Not only is their homeschool curriculum easy to use, but it’s superior at times. Now you know the secret of how to easily homeschool.

You’ll love these other resources:

Hugs and love ya,

 

Super Seashore Watching Unit Study and Beach Lapbook (Nature Book Club Link Up 7)

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I can smell the beach from here! Okay, maybe not where I live now, but I feel that way since I grew up being a 30 minute drive to the beach. And we never missed a chance to go to it. We would cook crab or gumbo, spend hours on the shoreline and build a fire. Seashore watching was an activity I loved as a kid and I made sure my kids knew about it. I think you’ll love these ideas for a seashore watching unit study.

Seashore Kids Activities

Super Seashore Watching Unit Study and Beach Lapbook. Whether you want to study the beach or seashore in the summer or winter, your kids will love this free super seashore watching unit study and free beach lapbook along with hands-on activities! CLICK HERE to grab it!

I gathered up several activities that I think you’ll love for an easy homeschool seashore watching unit study and then I have an easy lapbook about things you can find along the beach shoreline.

Like most all of my unit study resources I share multiple ages links so you can pick and choose links for your kids. This one is no different. I have resources for kids from Prek to High School.

Too, we love and used this book, Seashore Watcher, as a guide because we love it. Also did I mention it has some easy hands-on activities in it also.

I loved the fact that the book came with a plastic water protector cover so you could pick up and go to the beach. It’s the little things that amuse me.

Seashore Lesson Plans, Printables, and Activities

Monterey Bay Aquarium, Curriculum preK-12, tide pools, crabs; claws and shells, beach in a pan to name a few you’ll love.
70 page pdf tidepool guide.
Tide pool discovery.
SeaCrets of tide pools.
Life at the seashore curriculum.

Ocean waves and tides.
Seashore invertebrates.
Common seashore plants.
Seashore sweep.
Oddball Out: Seashore creatures.

At the beach word search.
Match the seashells.
Rocky shore food Web Drama.
Life under the sea.
Sensational seaweed.
Gifts from the sea.
Kelp science activity guide.
Beach poetry.
Stranded along the coast.
How wealthy is your tide pool.

What the Sea Saw teacher’s guide.
Life on the Beach guide.
Seashore science.
New Zealand Rocky Shore activities. Many can be used here in the states too.
Planning a trip to the seashore checklist.
Junior Ranger seashore activity book.
Padre Island National Seashore.
10 Nature Discoveries on the Sandy Shore.
Sand, sun and geometry.
Jumpstart Your Beach Unit with Free Lesson Plans.


(You can see why I loved this book, Seashore Watcher for an easy unit study. It has easy hands-on ideas.)

Seashore Watching Media 

Decorator Crabs Make High Fashion at Low Tide | Deep Look
Nature Life At The Edge Of The Sea.
Explorit’s SEASHORE Quiz.
Seaweeds powerpoint.
Life in a tidepool. 

Seashore Watching Hands-on Activities

Make a ceramic starfish.
Fun coloring pages. Common seashore creatures.
Seaweed art.
Motion from the ocean fish mobile.
21 fun and active games for kids to play on the beach.

Wild Horses of Assateague Island Lapbook. Natural Learning Opportunities on a Beach Vacation
How waves affect beaches hands-on activity.
25+ Beach Learning Activities to Build Background Knowledge Before Your Beach Trip.
15 Seashore Inspired Kid Crafts.

Also, this is not our first time studying about the beach and ocean life. You’ll love our hands-on edible geography where we made the tidal zones and edible ocean layers. (yum)


You’ll love my free ocean unit study lapbook and free coral reef lapbooks.

Super Seashore Watching Unit Study and Beach Lapbook. Whether you want to study the beach or seashore in the summer or winter, your kids will love this free super seashore watching unit study and free beach lapbook along with hands-on activities! CLICK HERE to grab it!

Download the Seashore Watching Lapbook at my Facebook Group – Homeschool Dynamics by Tina Robertson.

This lapbook is a facebook follower freebie. When You Join my Group, look for this in the Files Section.

And yes I know sometimes you can’t get to the seashore or beach, but you can get to your backyard for some science. You’ll love this fun hands-on science!
Backyard Science ebook

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Welcome to the Nature Book Club Monthly Link Up No 7.

The Nature Book Club is a monthly link up beginning on the 20th day of each month.

It’s a monthly book club devoted to connecting children to nature.

Also, join our new Nature Book Club Facebook Group!

Nature Book Club theme for July: Beach, Sand, and Shells

The Nature Book Club is brought to you by these 6 nature loving bloggers which are your co-hosts! Are you following them? If you don’t want to miss anything, be sure to follow each one.

Seashore Observations Printable Activity from Barbara at Handbook of Nature Study
Seashells by the Seashore | Notebooking Pages from Jenny at Faith & Good Works
Beach Scavenger Hunt from Emily at Table Life Blog
10 Nature Discoveries on the Sandy Shore from Eva at Eva Varga
Turtle in the Sea Online Book Club from Dachelle at Hide the Chocolate

Upcoming theme (August): Water {Streams, Rivers and Ponds}

Party Rules

  • Choose an engaging nature book, do a craft or activity, and add your post to our monthly link up.
  • The link up party goes live at 9:00 a.m. EST on the 20th of each month and stays open until 11:59 p.m. EST on the last day of the month. Hurry to add your links!
  • You can link up to 3 posts.
  • Please do not link up advertising posts, advertise other link up parties, your store, or non-related blog posts. They will be removed.
  • By linking up with us, you agree for us to share your images and give you credit of course if we feature your posts.That’s it!
    Let’s party.
  • Find us #NatureBookClub


Hands-On Nature Study: Bird Color Bar Graphing Activity

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As we’ve been working our way through the NaturExplorers : Beautiful Birds unit study, we’ve been learning so much about types of birds, what they eat, how they fly, and even where they go when they migrate. In our area, we tend to see the same few species of birds, but I still wanted the kids to be interested in observing them.

NaturExplorers  suggested graphing the different kinds of birds we observe in our neighborhood and one of the printable notebooking pages shows kids how to keep up with bird colors by using tally marks. My kids, though, needed a little practice with bar graphing.

So we decided to do a bird color bar graphing activity to keep them watching out for the feathered friends who frequent our family home!

Hands-On Nature Study: Bird Color Bar Graphing Activity

To do this bird color bar graphing activity, you’ll need the following supplies:

  • Graphing paper
  • Colored pencils
  • Clipboard (optional)

You don’t have to use a clipboard, but I found that having it helped the kids keep up with their graphing much better. Especially when they’re outside and they decide to have an impromptu dirt digging session, which happened on more than one occasion.

Bird Bar Graphing Supplies

We used colored pencils for the bird colors we see the most often. We see lots of cardinals and blue jays, so we included red and blue. But we also see lots of brown thrashers and crows, which meant including brown and black as well.

Making a Bar Graph of Bird Sightings

To make the graphing simpler, we started the bars by just coloring the first outer square edges. That way, we’d make even bar shapes going up. If you don’t keep a bar graph neat from the beginning, the bars will look crooked and make the graph almost impossible to read. (Ask me how I know.)

Graphing Local Bird Colors

We saw a good number of cardinals, but we saw even more blue jays. I love them both.

Making a Bar Graph of Bird Colors

But we saw more crows than any other kind of bird! That was pretty neat.

Graphing Bird Colors with Kids

We suspected that it was because we usually saw individual cardinals and blue jays (and even brown thrashers). But crows were always in big groups. It’s common to see 15 of them at once sitting on a telephone line.

We’ll see if the crows stay on top over the next few weeks or if they’re upset by one of the other bird species.

The kids absolutely loved doing this activity. And they were getting some math practice without even knowing it. That’s always a win in my book.

Share these other hands-on nature study activities when you’re learning about birds with the kids!

Hugs and love ya,

Wildflowers Unit Study & Lapbook (The Nature Book Club Link Up 5)

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When the Texas wildflowers blanket the fields here we’ve never been able to stay indoors. We’re always thinking of ways to get outside. Sharing this wildflower unit study and lapbook along with some hands-on ideas, I hope they’ll help your kids get excited about a fun wildflowers nature study.

Here are a few fun facts about wildflowers.

  • Wildflowers by definition are soft-stemmed flowering plants that bloom once each year.
  • Some regenerate from the same rootstock (perennials), while others grow from seeds.
  • The flowering stem typically grows upright, but may be climbing, creeping, or trailing.

Wildflowers can be identified by color, but also by the shape of the flower head:

  • Bell shape
  • Cross shape
  • Trumpet shape
  • Ray flower
  • Two-lipped shape
  • Iris
  • Pea-shaped

Wildflowers Unit Study & Lapbook

Your kids will love this free wildflower unit study and lapbook along with some hands-on ideas, crafts, lesson plans and fun activities. I hope they'll help your kids get excited about a fun nature study about wildflowers. CLICK here to grab it!I’ve rounded up some resources to make this wildflower unit study come to life.

Wildflowers Lesson Plan & Ideas

Petal Attraction. Why different pollinators are attracted to different types of flowers
Wildflowers in Bloom has images of many of the most showy wildflowers.
Use this poem about botany for some memory work or copywork.
Great interactive site about the biology of plants.
Life science plant structure and function lesson plan. 13 page pdf.

Seed dispersal. 8 page pdf.
Wildflower vocabulary.
Oh wow, check out this list of state flowers.
Celebrate wildflowers through art.
Native plants – our medicine.

Flowers seeking pollinators. Geared for 2nd to 7th grade.
Wildflower bingo and lesson plan.
Fun with flowers printables. Nice!
Pollinator Activity Book.
Bee Guides. Helpful.

Flower dissection instructions.
For the littles, printable flower color cards.

Texas wildflowers guide.
Plant life cycle worksheets.
Another list of state flowers.

Studying seeds printable book.

 

Wildflowers Media & Interactive.

Video about Flower Pollination.
How Plants Grow Game.
Photosynthesis video and karaoke.
Parts of the Plant.
Parts of the flower interactive guide.

Funny young teen making edible candy flower.
Pick the Pollinator.
Life Cycle of a Flowering Plant.
Up Close Parts of Flower – Harcourt  School

Fun and EASY Crafts, Hands-on Ideas, and Activities About Wildflowers!

Look at these ideas for making wildflower notecards, making your own perfume, preserving wildflowers, and a wildflower book mark.
Do not miss these fabulous and free 7 coloring books full of wildflowers. These also make great covers for the outside of your lapbook. They coloring books are California Plants to Color, Coloring Book of the Western Great Lakes Region, Plants to Color from the Aspen Forest, Wildflowers of the Colorado Mountain Tops, Wildflowers of Ponderosa Pine Forests, Celebrate Wildflowers of Southwest Idaho and Wildflowers of the Western U.S.

Look at this Nature Study: Daffodils – Dissection, Poetry & Drawings.
Oh goodness, what is there to not love about the ideas on this flower and garden site? Tissue paper flowers, make flowers out of household items like straws, make paper flower baskets, create stinkin’ cute hand print flowers, spinning paper plate flower, make cupcake wrapper flowers, egg carton flowers, crepe flowers and make a booklet that opens up into a daisy.
Make leafy animal crafts.
Something for the littles, cut and paste shapes to make flowers.

A long list of fun things to do with plants.
Use a plastic bottle to make a flower. Great for a tween or teen.
Springtime STEAM: Wildflower papermaking.
Creative flower arrangements. Great for a tween or teen.
How to Press Flowers. Top 10 Tips.

Z Is For Zinnias| Planting Wild Flowers.
Botanical Illustration step by step – Painting a Sweet Pea.
Create a dish garden.
Make a hydroponic garden with bottle.
Flower experiment for kids.

42 flowers you can eat.
Preschool math counting flower petals.
How to make a flower crown.
Spring flower activities for kids.
Cork-Stamped Flower Craft with Corks and Buttons.

Dyeing flowers.

Books & Fun Activities About Wildflowers




And grab this free reading guide to go with the book, Miss Lady Bird’s Wildflowers.


And grab this free make your own flowers guide to go with this sweet book, Rose’s Garden. While waiting for her garden to bloom children bring Rose flowers they’ve made from different material.



Download the Free Wildflower Lapbook at my Facebook Group – Homeschool Dynamics by Tina Robertson.
This lapbook is a facebook follower freebie. When You Join my Group, look for this in the Files Section.
Click here to grab my free Arctic Squirrel Lapbook

If you’re looking to do any spring nature studies, you’ll want to get a few of the NaturExplorers. I love those studies for multiple ages.Our Journey Westward

 Other Nature Study Ideas

Parts of a Dandelion Nature Study.
DIY Wildflower Seed Bombs.
Exploring Wildflowers.
Fun Flower Garden for Kids with Upcycled Cartons.
See Like a Bee Wildflower Hunt.

Nature Sensory Bags.
All About Flowers Printable Unit Study: Flower Printables for Kids.
Sorting parts of flower.
Daffodil dissection :: parts of a flower lesson.
Cheeto pollination experiment.

 

Your kids will love this free wildflower unit study and lapbook along with some hands-on ideas, crafts, lesson plans and fun activities. I hope they'll help your kids get excited about a fun nature study about wildflowers. CLICK here to grab it!

You’ll love my other nature study ideas and posts below:

Are You Ready to Party? Welcome to The Nature Book Club Monthly Link Up No 5.

The Nature Book Club is a monthly link up beginning on the 20th day of each month.

It’s a monthly book club devoted to connecting children to nature.

There is a theme for each month in 2018. We welcome your nature book and activity related links!

The Nature Book Club theme for May: Wild Flowers

The Nature Book Club is brought to you by these 11 nature loving bloggers which are your co-hosts! Are you following them?
If you don’t want to miss anything, be sure to follow each one.

Miss Rumphius Mixed Media Art from Emily at Table Life Blog
Wildflower Walk and Pressing Flowers from Barbara at Handbook of Nature Study
Wildflowers Nature Study from Jenny at Faith and Good Works
Oregon Nature Study Quiz: Wildflower Edition from Eva at Eva Varga
Wildflower Fairy Poetry & Art Activity from Melanie at Wind in a Letterbox
Flower Fairy Peg Dolls from Cassidy at Freshly Planted
Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms Online Book Club from Dachelle at Hide the Chocolate
Wildflowers Unit Study & Lapbook from Tina at Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Fingerprint Painting on Canvas Activity from Katrina at Rule This Roost
DIY Flower Press from Thaleia at Something 2 Offer
Dandelion Life Cycle Learning Activities from Karyn at Teach Beside Me

Upcoming theme (June): Nature Hike and Nature Discovery

Party Rules

  • Choose an engaging nature book, do a craft or activity, and add your post to our monthly link up.
  • The link up party goes live at 9:00 a.m. EST on the 20th of each month and stays open until 11:59 p.m. EST on the last day of the month. Hurry to add your links!
  • You can link up to 3 posts.
  • Please do not link up advertising posts, advertise other link up parties, your store, or non-related blog posts. They will be removed.
  • By linking up with us, you agree for us to share your images and give you credit of course if we feature your posts.That’s it!
    Let’s party.
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