Well I bought the new Ebook over at
Handbook of nature Study Blog and it is really cute. I have never used any of the outdoor challenge books before so this is neat. It is also comes with cute little notebooking pages and ALOT of links!! So the first challenge was basically finding color on a nature walk so that is what we did. We went to our favorite park and just looked all over. Living in FL is not really a wintery state though. We are in North FL so we get cold just no snow. We did have frost a few mornings but me being an anti cold person, we hibernate when it gets frosty lol. I hate snow, I hatye cold and I think I have raised my kids the same. Most of the trees here have pretty much gotten bare except the pine trees and evergreen types. We did however find actual color besides piles of dead leaves and browned grass.
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| The lonely red leaf. We saw some leaves most brown and dead but a few still had pretty colors. We also noticed the moss growing on trees was a bright bright green color now. The river water has turned a yellow brown type color, |
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| This bright red bloom was an awesome find. Not quite sure what it is, but it was pretty. We found a whole bush full of them!!! Right above this we also found a long abandoned birds nest which my kids love for some reason. We have always loved finding any kinds of nests. If they are on the ground I will let them bring them home but if they are still in the tree I say leave them cause in the Spring another bird can use it as a home and we can visit again. |
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| These were on sandbags under the bridge. The kids wanted to break them off but they kept falling apart so we left them there. Maybe another bug will live in them. |
We had a really nice day hunting for colors. The kids were kinda sad about not having snow but I reminded them that in snow we can't ride bikes so they felt a bit better on that lol.
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| Of course we saw the sky which was a pretty blue that day. |
Damian got a really cute little sunflower greenhouse set up from one of his travelers so today we put it all together! He was very sweet letting the other kids help with putting the seeds in. When they were done it found a home on the top shelf in the nature area.
Today we visited a family run zoo and rescue. It was small but sweet. The kids got to see interesting animals but te best part was the end. My son Fox got to hold a baby fox. It was amazing to see that. Damian and Skyler got to play with and pet a baby deer. Sky cried all the way home for that little deer. 
The best part for me besides seeing the kids so happy was this beauty. She is almost a year old and full blooded timberwolf. She is also up for adoption. Look at her, isn't she beautiful and magnificent? I can truly see owning this girl if I could afford to feed her that is. We also wanted to bring home the baby fox sadly he was not up for adoption. All in all it was a great little trip to an out of the way place. 
For the cover we used a flower my son is holding. This is a little book we have made for our traveler friends for geography. You can see that blog here. We used things from our yard and things we gathered to make a little nature book. The pages are made from baggies and include leaves, bark rubbings some sand etc. The kids liked gathering things for these and enjoyed putting them together. We have had alot of fun with our travelers and enjoying sharing the nature of our area with them. 
This was a little nature idea to add to our geography swaps. You can check all that out on our travelin blog. We are taking different stuff, putting them into baggies with labels and are turning them into little books for our swap partners. Kids will enjoy making this and hopefully the person who gets them likes them too. 
