https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IU_PDeBItE Acorns are a beautiful, wild, abundant and sustainable source of food. I used to tread over acorns only picking them up to admire their beauty and delight i...Read More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NehQVp4RdrU I should know better than to expect sit down work from my boys when we are out in un-landscaped wild nature! They would rather explore, hike, forage, and ma...Read More
Want to make a quick and easy nature journal? You don’t need many supplies. I made these using watercolor paper, drawing paper, a long reach stapler and a paper trimmer. It was a lot of fun wate...Read More
Join me as we learn how to make hiking sticks from found branches and sticks. We cut them down to size, removed protruding parts and sanded them down using a power sander, metal file or sand paper. Yo...Read More
Watercoloring is one of my kids’ favorite artistic outlets. I’m going to show you a few different techniques that you can do using a typical Waldorf technique called ‘wet on wet̵...Read More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T89yk5CeVvQ It would help if I actually watched the assignment video BEFORE I record my response video to assignment #6!! I’ve given it some thought, I decided to...Read More
Have you ever heard of a Micro Hike? I hadn’t until I picked up the book by Joseph Bharat Cornell called Sharing Nature With Kids. Though I couldn’t locate the original book on Amazon, I d...Read More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lYlBSO_Omc Join me at the Wild + Free conference on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA May 13th and 14th, 2016. It was an inspiring and motivating weekend. We all left r...Read More
Springtime is the perfect time to depart the classroom and school in the field. What better place than outdoors in nature? I schedule our units so that our science units are in the spring when my kids...Read More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGwY4TxeED0 What can you expect for our nature unit study? A whole lot! We’ll kick it off with a haul video, followed by “How to Put Together a Unit Study: ...Read More