Category: Nature Study
WATERCOLOR MONARCH BUTTERFLY
I love adding watercoloring to our lessons when possible, and this monarch butterfly watercolor is a great beginner project. With just a couple of colors, you can make an extraordinary painting. For t... Read More
OVEN BAKE CLAY | LIFE CYCLE OF A BUTTERFLY
Sculpey Ultra Light oven bake clay is my new favorite modeling medium! It’s awesome!! Let me tell you why this is a must have item for your art supply stash or homeschool supplies. It comes in w... Read More
ANATOMY OF A BUTTERFLY
I love it when I can mix art and science or art and math for that matter. Any lesson is an opportunity to pull out the watercolor paper and art supplies. For this lesson we are using our Tim Holtz Dis... Read More
FELTED CATERPILLAR TUTORIAL
I’m always surprised when my children want to felt. It’s not the easiest craft and it takes a while to, but their projects turned out so cute! Especially my 7-year-old’s caterpillar.... Read More
MONARCH BUTTERFLY PAPER PROJECT
These monarch butterflies look so real, from a distance, you would think they were. We didn’t intend to make so many. We just needed a few for a Life Cycle of a Butterfly project, but we (er, I ... Read More
MONARCH BUTTERFLY SUNCATCHER
Ever since we started making suncatchers, we’ve been enjoying this beautiful craft. I think my friends and neighbors enjoy it too because they can see our decorated school room windows from the ... Read More
HOMESCHOOL UNIT STUDY | BUTTERFLIES & CATERPILLARS
If you watched my Nature Unit planning video, you know I scheduled a lot for this spring! It didn’t work out though. It was too broad and too hard to plan, so I broke up that big unit into weekl... Read More
HOW TO GROW SPROUTS FOR BEGINNERS
One day when I was only five years old, my mom caught me sneaking the sprouts. It was as if I was sneaking chocolate! They were so good, and I kept eating them before they were ready. Fast forward nea... Read More