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Welcome to this week’s giveaway–sponsored by Be Naturally Curious!
From Valerie at Be Naturally Curious:
“I am a mom to two energetic and inquisitive young girls and also happen to be a former college Biology professor.
One of my greatest passions in life is to help ALL kids experience the joy in learning science and exploring nature!
I believe this is best done by focusing on concepts and reinforcing learning with multiple, non-traditional teaching techniques, which is why I started Be Naturally Curious, creating science and nature mini-courses for kids grades K-5.
I love to share and discuss ideas about science and learning on our Facebook page —please come connect with us!
I’ve enlisted the help of several other scientists, many of whom are also moms, to make mini-courses on really important and fascinating scientific concepts (these are the real thing—nothing watered down here!).
Current mini-courses include:
- Take Off with Airplane Science
- A Wide World of Vertebrates
- A Butterfly’s Evening Adventure
- Freddie and His Ocean Friends
- Molecules are Everywhere
- The Adventures of Carbon
- Discovering DNA
- Mighty Magnets
- Life in the Desert
- See with your Ears!
- Our Neighbor, the Moon!
- Amazing Animal Migrations
They are designed to give parents the tools to teach higher-level scientific concepts to all styles of learners. Whether you have a kinesthetic learner or a visual one, your child can master everything from molecules and DNA to ecosystems and the carbon cycle.
As moms ourselves, we specifically designed the courses so they can be done easily at home or on a trip with minimal supplies—most materials can be cut directly from the course print out. We believe science can be done anywhere!
Each mini-course focuses on a different scientific concept, whether it be how airplanes fly or how dolphins echolocate.
Every mini-course is designed to appeal to all kinds of learners and a wide range of ages (grades K-5), and includes a beautifully illustrated story, a board or card game, a movement-based activity, a craft or modeling activity, and an experiment or outdoor exploration activity.
Try them with all the kids in your family—each person has his or her own best way to learn!
Each mini-course also includes additional resources to allow kids to follow their curiosity (the most important thing we can develop!) and concept badges kids can add to their Science Tool Kits (print out included in each mini-course.)
The prize
One Simple Homeschool reader will win a complete set of Be Naturally Curious mini-courses (worth $120), in PDF format!
PDFs can be printed in their entirety or in part for the activity materials.
How to Win
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To be entered for a chance to win, leave a comment on this post answering the question: How old are your kids, and what is their favorite way to explore nature in spring?
(If you’re reading this via email or reader, you must click here to leave your comment on this post at Simple Homeschool. Comments or emails left elsewhere don’t count as entries.)
Note: This giveaway is open internationally. Yay, international readers!
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Special Offer
Be Naturally Curious is offering Simple Homeschool readers 50% OFF all purchases of mini-courses through April 15, 2016!
Just use the discount code “SHSpring2016” at check out.
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I have a 12 year old and 8 year old. Their favorite way to explore nature. . . I think that would involve water. Looking for critters in a stream, or a day at the coast and the tide pools. . . those sorts of things are their favorites.
My 12 year old boy loves to hike around our local ponds and wetlands and identify birds.
My 6 year old and 4 year old kids’ favorite way to explore nature is taking weekly nature walks.
My kids are 8 and 7 and they love being outside in any weather, but in Spring, I’d say they love to go to our local river’s beachy area and just play in the sand, with stones, sticks, a bit of mud/clay and whatever else they can find. We live in a winter = rainy place and so just when everything is dry enough to do that for a few hours, we’re all happy campers!
My girls are 9 and 10 and they LOVE to be outdoors. It doesn’t matter what season it is, what temp it is, what time of day it is, they will be asking if we can go outside the second I get up. We just recently discovered there’s a small creek near us and that is now their favorite place in the world. They love to trudge through it and drag sticks along the water and just get so completely messy and disgustingly dirty. They love being outside!
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Kids are 6, 4, 2, and 0. In the spring, they like to go rock collecting anywhere outside that we go, dig in the dirt, and admire plants and bugs that they see along the way.
We love looking for wildflowers in the spring! My kids are 5, 3, and 1. Thanks for the chance to win! :o)
My kids are 6 and 5 and love picking up sticks and rocks.
My 5 and 3 yr old love to dig up worms!
Well, my children are 27, 24 and 14. But I would gift this to my daughter for my grandchildren who are 5, 3, and 1. They have just moved to the country and are always outdoors exploring whatever they come across. They would love this science course as they study together. Thanks for the chance!
My kids are 5, 4, and 1. Our favorite way to explore nature is digging in the dirt and watching or playing in any kind of water!
9, 5, and 3. Walk in the woods and dig in the mud!
My kids are 9, 4, and 2. We live by a lake and we have a pond on our property. Springtime for us means watching the toads/eggs/tadpoles/toads cycle, counting robins in the yard, and feeding numerous baby ducks and their parents.
My kids are 9, almost 7, and 2. In the spring, and all year long, we really enjoy being outside and exploring all that season has to offer. My kids have recently taken a liking to identifying birds, so I’m sure that will continue throughout the spring.
My two are 7 and 6, and we love those early days when the snow has all melted & we can walk around our city neighborhood noticing all the signs of spring. Last week we walked past a house whose front yard was almost entirely filled with crocuses; it was fantastic!
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I’ve got a dozen kids, ages 1-16, but it’s the 6 and 9 year old for whom this would be the most fun. They love to spend days wading in our stream or watching clouds from the branches of our apple tree.
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My kids are 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, & 2. The oldest will read (and remember) anything, but the others prefer hands-on learning and pick up so much through their own curiosity and observing the world around them (especially out of doors!).
We homeschool four kids (ages 3 to 12). We love to go for hikes in our nearby forest, as we have recently moved from a big town to a countryside. Our native language is Russian, but the kids are learning English. This study material would be a great tool both to explore the nature and to learn English even deeper.
My children are 4, 7 and 9. Our favorite way to explore nature in the spring is through a scavenger hunt.
I have a 12, 10, 7, and 6 year old. Their favorite way to explore Spring is by getting very DIRTY outside! The laundry is epic, but so is the delight.
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My kids are 10 and 8 and they love to go on hiking trails through the woods…
I have four kids, ages 8, 6, 3, and 1. They LOVE to be outside, especially in the spring after they have been cooped up all winter. They find enjoyment in the simple things: watching tulips come up, digging for worms, planting seeds in our garden, watching birds at our feeders, looking for animal footprints, finding bird nests, watching the changes in the clouds…they would stay outside as long as I let them! Nature is beautiful and so fascinating, and the chance to get dirty seems an added bonus.
My daughter is 11. We live in the tropics…so no spring here, just year round summer! We are blessed that we have insects of all sorts fly into our house for us to inspect…
My kids are 11,9,6 and 3. They love to go on nature walks and are obsessed with ponds right now.
My kids are 6, 4, 2, and (in June) brand new. They love to just go play in the backyard (or go on walks) and initiate “treasure hunts” to see what fun things they can find. They always end up with quite a few treasures.
My kids are 7 and 5 and one due in June. We love our hikes in the woods looking for deer sheds, flowers, and wild life. Found a turtle shell this week. They love the creek trying to catch minnows. They are outdoor kiddos.
My children are ages. 16, 13, 12 and 7. The 7 year old is the one this would be for. Maybe the 12 yr old can join in as well.
Woops! Forgot.. My 7 yr old lives outside, digging and playing in dirt. He rides his bike and plays in puddles. Climbs trees. Bounces in trampoline. Always looking for new things. Picking my flowers.
My kids are 6, 5, 2 and 6 months. They love to learn by being outside!!
Mine are two. We have planted a garden and they like to water it and check for sprouts.
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My kids are 12, 8, 3, 18 months, and pregnant with #5. We love to hike and explore in the woods. My daughter started hunting with my husband this winter so she looks for animal signs while we’re hiking and leafs the rest of the kids.
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My kids are 10, 8, 5, & 3. Much of their exploration is just in our yard–flowers, birds, trees, & sky.
My children are 8, 7, 4, 2, and 2M. Right now one of their favorite activities is to explore a freshly filled seasonal pond in the yard. There are tadpoles to watch and mosquito fish (which are tiny) to try to catch.
We love looking for signs of spring! Bits of green, flying bugs, sprouts all about. It’s like a treasure hunt overbite we go out.
My kids are 6, 4, 2 and 2 months. In the spring, we love gardening, going for nature walks, and exploring our local conservation areas.
My children are 9, 7, 6, 3, and 1. They like to explore the woods and water in the spring, and to take family hikes.
My girls are 4 and 2. They love to pick up sticks, leaves, and rocks, and watch bugs.
My kids are 7, 4, and 10 months. In the spring they love to explore our yard. They lift rocks looking for bugs, worms, and salamanders. They spot bird nests and they find and gather wild flowers!
My children are 6, 3, and 1. They’re favorite thing these days is to go on “picnic walks” in the woods and look for insects before we have our lunch.
We do not spend enough time outside…which is why I would truly love to win this, to help us get out there & learn to explore. I have two little girls that are 7 & 8, and I know inside that I need to get them outside more & to learn to love the outdoors & see all of it’s wonders….please help me to figure out how to do this & to help instill such an important thing in these young hearts.
My boys are 5,7,&11. Our favorite ways to explore in spring are digging in mud, climbing trees, and looking for wild flowers.
Our girls are almost 9 and 6 years old and they like going for hikes and seeing/learning about all the wildflowers.
I have 5 kids aged 11 – 27, and 2 grandchildren age 5 and 6. They all love to hike in the woods and just encounter nature.
My kiddos are 10 and 12. We love to celebrate spring by jumping in puddles and picking flowers in our yard.
My two girls are 6 and 4, and their favorite way to explore nature is to wander around the garden and flower beds, looking for all the changes spring has brought – buds, blooms, new leaves, warm air. We love spring!
My girls are 7, 4, 3, and 1. We like to explore spring by planting seeds, spending lots more time outside and searching for all the flowers coming up in our yard and neighborhood.
I’ve really struggling with choosing our science for next yr for my 2 girls. This might be a good choice!
I have a six year girl, and during the spring we learn with our hands. We are usually outside playing in the dirt or sand. We usually go exploring because winters are really harsh here. By the time spring rolls around we are outside in our shorts soaking up the sun. My DD is very hands on, she learns by touching and seeing something. She’s my little adventurer.
My children are 9, 6, 4, and 1 yr. They love exploring outside. Digging in the ground and finding bugs, watching the changes throughout the seasons. My 6 yr. old boy also loves to create his own experiments – making boats and testing them, or making rube goldberg machines, etc.
my children are 10, 8, and 6. We are still new to homeschooling but we are hoping to enjoy nature walks at the arboretum and do a lot of bird watching and insect collecting.
Our children are 9, 8 and 2. This spring the oldest have been busy observing the many bugs in our back yard. They have been building a mini neighborhood for the bugs with houses, pools and roads 🙂 They like to identify the bugs online and have endless questions! Our 2 year old likes to collect rocks, stick, and tiny lawn flowers for mommy.
I have 12,10,8,6,and 3 year old boys! They love to explore outside by climbing trees and looking for creatures.
I have an 8 year old and an 11 year old. my 11 yr. old has sensory issues and I LOVE springtime because he is incredibly interested in science and with everything going on in the natural world and lots of time for exploration his tactile issues are overcome simply from the pure desire to be exploring…digging in the garden, splashing through muddy puddles while it is raining, actually putting his hands in swampy goop searching for frog eggs…it is a mom’s and science teacher’s dream come true!
We have a 3 year old and a 7 year old. We walk outside whenever we can, in our neighborhood, but especially in forest preserves. My littles love naming the trees, plants, animal footprints and scat.
My children are 7 & 9 years old. Their favorite way to explore nature in Spring is to be in the woods and mountain streams: tracking animals, finding and observing frog eggs, discovering the tiny first wild flowers of the season, listening to the sounds of the forest. We also love planning our veggie garden!
I have two boys, 5 and 2 years old. They live just being outside and seeing what’s blooming and noticing the birds and airplanes and cloud patterns and asking me ALL the questions about ALL the things. We have a lot of fun!
Our kids are 7, 5, and 3. We enjoy painting in nature journals, finding flowers to pick, and playing in the mud.
My boys are 5 and 3, and they love playing in the dirt and helping me in the garden!
I have a 9 yr old daughter. And her way of discovery is hands on hands in, dirt is a must.
Our kids are 11, 10, 9, 6, and 3 1/2 weeks! They love to climb trees, collect rocks, go fishing and camping, horses, and to see the new calves run and play!
My kids are 4 and 7. Their favorite way to explore in nature is to go into our backyard and find new things, new plants, new bugs, sticks, whatever.
Our kids are 10, 8 6 and 2 and LOVE to go hiking in the woods!
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Kids are 16,11,7,5,and two. We live on 5 acres so lots to explore but love heading to the river and hiking locally.
I have a six year old boy and an eight year old boy. We love to go for hikes, or explore on walks around our neighbourhood.
I have 3 boys…9,5, and 3. We currently love playing outside, bike riding, catching and observing frogs, toads, and lizards, and picking flowers.
My children are 14 and 9. They love to explore the local woodlands and rivers!
My children are 6 and 8. Geocaching is our favorite way to explore nature right now.
My kiddos are 3, 8, & 10, and their favorite way to explore nature is just by unscripted immersion. I might encourage them to journal their discoveries, but just getting their hands dirty is the best way for them to learn. 🙂
My sons are 10 and 8. We love taking nature hikes, hunting for fossils, and nature journaling.
Our sons are 7 and 9 and love to look at and study nature. Right now, though, we are in a season of grief as their father died last month. I got them, finally, last night to go out with me and look at the moon and clouds – something that was a nightly occurrence until Feb. 16th. I think this would be great to get them looking at the world again.
My boys are 6, 4 and almost 2. Their favorite way to explore the spring is to play in the mud and watch the birds coming back.
I have an 8, 6, and 3 year old. Their favorite way to explore nature in spring, involves being elbow and knee deep in mud, water, and growing things, seeing how many different creatures they can find and examine.
Hi! My children are 2, 4, 6 and 8. They are all enjoying watching the plants in their blooming stage. Lots of excitement and comments like, “it was just a bud yesterday and now look at it!” Thank you for the opportunity. My prayers are for the mother and boys above who lost their husband/father.
My kiddos are 7, 5 and 2. We love to be outside, explore, hike, and also learn a lot from gardening. Our favorite thing is go on nature walks and explore the beauty around us. They also love the local wildlife museum nearby!
This looks so fun… our kids range from 6 through to (8,9,11,12,14,16) 18… WE love exploring nature in the great outdoors and we do masses of hiking and exploring the mountains and beaches around us.
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My kids are 11 & 8, my (non biological) grandson will be 3 soon. My kids n I like to go for nature walks anywhere, & snap pictures of anything that catches our eye, discussions stir up easily!
My children are 18 and 10, they are both nature lovers and Spring is definitely celebrated with more outdoor time. My daughter has moved in preparation for college life and my son is alone a lot now. Big changes here, from one mom to another, it hurts a lot. Anyway we love Maple Syrup, and the joy it brings. We usually visit Maple Festivals and this year my son actually got to help a friend with the gathering of sap on his farm. Mmmm syrup coming soon. We try to recognize the changes all around us, birds singing, buds beginning to show, grass getting green again. Also we begin our seed planting for gardens. So beautiful, Happy Spring to all !
10, 4, and 1. They enjoy just going outside and digging around in the dirt and studying the bugs they find.
We love to take family hikes in the state forest! My boys are 6 and 3.
My kids are 10 and 7. In the spring, the kids clean up their network of forts in the back yard. We also check out the low tide (we live on an island) and hit the trails once they’ve dried out a bit!
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Our kids are 3, 5, & 7. nature walks and digging in the “garden” are our favorites
My daughter is 7 and it would probably be easier to list the ways she *doesn’t* explore nature in the spring. She’s a rock hound, a gardener, a stargazer and a birdwatcher. Her dream is to work at Yellowstone someday.
My kids are 4, 2, and 1 and their favorite way to explore nature in spring is collecting toads, tadpoles and bugs.
My kids are 14, 7, and 1 and they love nothing better than to head out on our property and explore… we have ant hills and secret gardens, a beach and a river complete with otters, beavers, herons and eagles, and areas of trees and brush that are great for hiking and hiding. Time spent outside in nature is the No. 1 reason why we homeschool. :)????
My kids are 6,4,2,8months, and we love to hike and camp.
My kids are 7, 4 and 1. We love hike in the woods but the favorite is catching frogs in the pond.
My kids are 4 and 6 and we love to go on mushroom-hunting walks through the woods! They’ve gotten pretty good at spotting them 🙂
I have a 10, 7 and 4 year old. The kids love to pick flowers, check out the bug population, look under rotting logs and make their own trails in woody areas of our property.
I have a 10 year old and a 7 year old. Nature is their school! We spend most of our days ourdoors in the woods behind our house, hiking the mountains nearby, looking for birds to draw, ants to study, bark to peel back, anything we can!
My school aged kids are 10,8,7,5. Our favorite way to explore nature is to camp and enjoy a long weekend playing and exploring.
My kid are 2,4, and 8(!), and our favorite ways to explore the spring is with wildflower hikes in the mountains, keeping an eye out for birds at our feeder, and digging countless holes in our garden.
My son is eight. He likes to explore nature by building shelters for plants and animals.
My sons are 6 and 9. They enjoy exploring nature in the Spring by taking hikes outside and watching the different types of birds and their nests.
My kiddos are 10,9,6,5,2 and 9 months. My children love to be outdoors. Our favorite activity is getting an empty egg carton, going out side and filling it up with anything nature. When we’re done we sit down and talk about all the things we found. Everyone learns something new, even the little ones. Science is there favorite subject and they are always wanting more.
My children are 5.5 and 3.5. They love exploring nature using their sense of touch – water, sand, bark, etc. It’s absolutely amazing how many different pretty little weeds/wild flowers or berries my daughter can find to decorate her sand cakes! They also like learning about the weather.
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We love exploring the creek in our back yard and planting seeds.
Grandchildren ages 2, 4, 5, and 8 love being outdoors. Oldest has been studying about molecules and changes in matter with me in the kitchen. The 5 year old loves rocks.
My kids are 6 1/2, 4 1/2 & 1. My kids love exploring nature! They dig for worms, finding treasures in nature walks such as cool rocks or interesting leaves and big walking sticks to make their own tee-pee with. They love to dissect anything with seeds in it and raising butterflies has become a fun tradition!
My daughter is 5 years old. No matter what season is, she enjoys very much to go outside and look for insects and plants with her magnifying glass.
I have a 15 yo, 12 yo, 4 yo and almost 2 yo. They all love to be outdoors digging things up and looking up to the sky. The younger three love to garden (My 12 yo snuck some beans and potted them and put them in his room and they are growing like crazy). The oldest is very much into anything with animals where he can be hands on caring for them and he loves to learn by reading and watching videos on animals.
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My children are 7,5, and 18 months. They love to play in it neighbors huge back yard, and explore in the forest. The are on a huge survival kit right now so they are always building shelters and making camp fire spots.
I have a 6 1/2 year old, 4 year old and 1 year old. All like to use their hands to find stuff; dirty, wet, it doesn’t matter to them. They like to explore in streams, woods, fields, you name it.
My boys are 5, 3, and 1. They love digging in the dirt and mud (the 1 year old likes to eat it) and playing in the tree fort in our back yard. They like pointing out all the different bugs and are so excited to help me in my vegetable garden that we started this year.
My kids are 6, 4, and 2 and we like to go to the Botanical Gardens. We’re always looking for more ways to study nature closer to home.
My kids are 13,13,11,9,7,5, and 1. They like to find caterpillars and put them in our butterfly house. It’s so fun to watch the wonder on their faces as they see the big changes from caterpillar to butterfly. They always name them “Chip” and ” Dale”, no matter how many we have. Nobody can remember who came up with these names or why, but it is now our tradition.
My kids are 5, and 11 months. The 5yo loves to pick up anything she finds when we go for walks – sticks, rocks, pinecones, leaves – and wants to take them all home! ???? My 11mo has yet to discover nature and spring, but she has always loved when we take her outside!
my child is 5 and she loves getting down close in our yard to see flowers, ladybugs, ants, roly polys, etc. although when we go on more of a nature walk her favorite thing is always the water in any form.
My kids are 6, 5, 3, 2 and 1 month and their favorite way to explore nature in spring is playing with mud! They scoop it, build with it, smear it, splash it, drive trucks through it, and wear it :-).
My children are 5, 7 and 9. I have three boys. They said their favorite way to explore nature in the spring is to climb trees and look for bugs.
My boys are 5 and 3 and they love to discover nature with their hands, anything with their hands.
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I’ve always wanted to use these courses with my kids. This is wonderful. Thank you!
Thank you for the opportunity to enter this contest. ???? It looks like a lot of fun! You mentioned above to let you know if we shared this on FB…done! I homeschool our 12, 10, 8 & 5 year olds. Good luck everyone ❤️
My kids are 6 and 3. We love to explore our yard and woods and see how things change in the spring. We live in the North East so we talk about birds migrating back and animals coming out of hibernation. We’re starting our homeschool journey this year so winning this would be amazing!
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My kids are 6 and 3. Their favorite way to explore spring is through mud and water.
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My son is seven. His favorite things about spring are the flowers and the bugs. We always go bug hunting to see what we can find and he likes to gather flowers.
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6, 4 and 2. They love to explore nature in spring by frrely exploring their surroundings outdoors by jumping in puddles, digging in the dirt, throwing sticks into puddles, watching ants and other bugs in the yard, and flying kites.
Oh my goodness! I hope I win! (Selfish, I know, but I have been eyeing their site for awhile.) Thanks for the generous offer! Fingers and toes crossed! My kids are 11 and 8 and our weather has been entertainingly all over the place. We have been loving creek play, digging in the sand at the beach in the rain, and hikes in the Redwoods. Happy Spring!
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My kids are 8 and 10. When the weather is nice, they like to climb trees and go on nature walks around our 22 acres in the country. These look like really fun resources! Science is a particularly week subject area for me, so these would be great!
My children are 4 and 7. My kids are enjoying the spring bounty in the forests and fields. We are learning about food foraging. They get so excited to find the plants that they recognize and can eat!
My daughter is 8. Her favorite thing nature-wise is going to visit her chickens in their run. She could hang out with her girls all day long, talking and squawking 🙂 We also like to go for nature walks in our woods and trails in the country, although in the spring we are a bit leery of all those snakes wondering around!
My kids are 5 and 7. They love to stay outside all day exploring around our house. They dig for bugs, ask questions about the bees near the flowers, and just enjoy being outside. This naturally leads us to the library to answer all of the many questions I have no answers for.
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My boys are 8 and 5 and their favorite way to explore nature in the spring is discovering new life and growth while we take walks and noticing all the busing animals flying and scampering about as they spend endless hours playing basketball outside in the warmer weather!
Our children are ages 7, 11, and 13 and we love to explore the creek at our local nature center this time of year!
My kids are 4 and 6. They love to help plant a garden every spring and see the little plants poking out of the earth. They also love to watch the birds fly up to the feeders they make at craft time.
My kids are 8, 6, and 3. They love to explore nature in as hands-on a way as possible. While taking a “nature walk”, I even got my vegetable-hating 3 year old to be excited to eat Miner’s Lettuce (edible wild plant), just because it was a new thing on the walk! 🙂
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My kids are 7,5, and almost 2. We like to get outside and discover all the new growth by hiking or just exploring in our own yard.
My boys are 6 and 8. They can’t wait everyday to get outside and explore. One is a digger, and he is into rocks, and leaves and anything growing. At the beach it’s shells and animals and sharks teeth. He often needs a bath at the end of the day. My oldest loves to chalk and walk and visually explore the hawks or turkey vultures or seagulls constantly circling in the sky. At the beach it’s the pelicans and the sandpipers or the hermit or ghost crabs scurrying around. He’s just as involved, but a little cleaner!
My kid is 11, and her favorite way to explore nature in spring, is to go behind our back yard with her friend, to the wooded area where there is a small stream and hike with us. She loves to collect things like twigs, rocks and plants, and explores any animal tracks she sees. She takes pictures of any interesting elements and then puts them in a scrapbook. She also loves to explore and hike at our nearby lakeside parks and trails.
I have a 12, 9, 3 and 1 year old. Currently they spend their days outside in the woods and by the stream.
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7, 5, 4, and 1 month. Just doing anything outside is their favorite!
My girls are 6 and 8 and love to build shelters, fairy houses with spring blossoms, and fish for tadpoles I our stream.
My kids, 10, 8 and 5, love to look for little critters in the water.
I have a 8,5 and 1 year old. My kids enjoy going on hikes and observing the buds and critters emerging. Been going on hikes led by a naturalist this year and really enjoying that.
I have six kids, ages 1 to 15. We live in southern California and are able to hike all year round. But we love seeing the wildflowers that poop up in the spring. We are also trying to learn to identify different wildflowers this spring.
My kids are 6, 3 and 1. Their favorite way to enjoy spring is anything outside. We hike through the woods, look for tadpoles and minnows in the creek, raise baby chicks, play kickball, play at the playground and have meals outside.
My 5 year old daughter loves going for walks and discovering what the snow has left behind after melting. Jumping in muddy puddles…”on ne peut pas manquer ça maman!!”
My kids are 5 & 3 and they just love to explore in anyway I’ll let them. Current popular things are magnifying glasses and evaporation experiments.
My 9-year-old son loves going on hikes with our dog, especially on new trails. Along the way we identify birds, note evidence of wildlife, observe unusual flora, and just enjoy the fresh air and soak in God’s good creation!
I have a 7-yr-old son, 5-yr-old daughter, and 2-yr-old son. They love playing in the grass, catching bugs, wading in creeks and digging in the dirt.
My kids are 9, 8, 6, and 3. We love to play in the water in the spring. Floating boats down the ditches is a favorite.
Hello, my girls are 9, 7, 5 and 1. In the spring they do most exploring in our garden and outings to the beach.
I have kids ages 6, 5, and 2 (boy, girl, girl). They lover to wonder around in the woods playing some imaginary game. Usually the girls are barefoot.
We are already naturally curious! 12,19,8,4,17mo. We love creatures of all kinds: currently a see through window bird feeder with bird a nd squirrel visitors, and a family of snajes living under a rock in our backyard.
My kids are 11, 10, 8, 5 and 2. They love to explore the woods near our house and learn in hands on ways. The older three also attend a weekly class called Ancestral Knowledge, where they spend the day in the woods with two instructors. They love it!
My boys, ages 6 & 4, love going for runs or bike rides on the seawall to look at cherry blossoms
My daughter is 10 and she loves smelling flowers, looking at butterflies,and ladybugs, and collecting stuff to make fairy houses!
My 6, 8 and 9 year old children are naturally curious about the seasons but here in Brisbane (Australia), we are having a very long summer and it seems that autumn might not even happen! We watch and notice how the sun moves differently across the sky in summer and winter (our only two real seasons) and creates different shadows across our city home.
My kids are 9, 5, and 1. Well, we don’t really have spring here in Indonesia (South East Asia). But, we have the condition and atmosphere a couple of days before the rainy season come. So, during these days, my kids love to learn outside in the garden, then help the neighbours to clean their yard, so they can keep the leaves, flower, sticks, and anything needed to make traditional puppets called wayang from the collected materials.
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Spring is one of our favorite seasons and we enjoy nature walks the most. We have enjoyed watching nature wake up from its winter slumber and observed the returned of the geese and started seeds for our garden amongst many others. My kids are 0, 3, 6, 8 and 9 years.
My kids are 1, 6, & 9. We love hiking and visiting natural history museums to learn about the world around us.
It’s Autumn here in Australia, a time when we notice cool air, mushrooms, magpies, pumpkins, sunflower seed heads, ibis… the list goes on. The 5-year-old loves gardening and finding mushrooms, the 3-year-old collects feathers and seed pods on our walks (and is a great cocoon-spotter), the baby watches tree leaves move in the wind.
I have two boys, 5 and 3. Their favorite way to explore nature is playing in “muck and mire” and wading in/throwing rocks in the creek :)!
What a wonderful giveaway. We are a natural loving family living in southern africa. We send lots of time outdoors. My children are 13, 10, 8, 5, and 1 year old twins. In spring my children love to pond-dip for frogspawn/crabs and other pondlife, they like to look out for spring flowers, and and the trees that look spectacular here in spring. They also love to look out for insects and wildlife signs. Spring is a subtle season here. My children also like to plan gardens and grow vegetables and herbs in spring.
My kids are 17, 12, 10, 7 and 3. Their favorite thing to explore in the spring is all of the new flowers.
I have a learning hungry daughter who is 5 and asks for extra work after school and a very curious three year old. I love the look of the molecules one especially. Thanks for the discount code but I would love to win the lot!
My kids, ages 17, 13, 11, 9, 6, 4, and 2 explore quite differently! The older ones go for long walks through the fields and pastures around our place. Others dig in the dirt. One especially loves keeping the bird feeder full and learning about the birds that come by. They are starting seeds in the house and planning their garden areas. We all wander around the yard watching the many changes that are happening, now that we can see the ground where the deep snow was only a couple weeks ago.
My kids are 8, 5, 3, and 20 months. They love to spend spring days running around outside, digging in the dirt, splashing in our creek, and planting flowers and veggies along side of us.
My kids are 9, 6, 3, and 1, and they love to explore the pond at our local nature park.
Hi! I am a homeschooling mom to 4 beautiful children. Ages 12, 11, 7, and 2! We love exploring outdoor nature! My 2 year old stops to bend down to look at the grass! My 7, 11 and 12 year olds love anything involving building and creating figuring out how things work and are made, and they love learning about different creatures!
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My boys are 6 & 7 and their favorite way to explore nature in the Spring is to be outside experiencing everything and getting muddy is always a plus!
My preschooler loves exploring the ponds in our backyard and enjoys scavenging for sticks and pebbles down our long driveway.
My kiddos are 6 and 8. We love hiking; we’ve recently be immersed in identifying early spring wildflowers!
My kids are 9, 8, and 3. Last spring, my older two spent hours trying to catch (and release) frogs from a nearby swamp. They developed some elaborate frog catching traps!
My kids are 7 and 4. This time of year they love discovering and learning science in puddles, streams, and especially lying on their bellies poking around in the dirt and grass
My boys are 8, 6, and 3 and they love to listen to birds and watch for the familiar ones returning in spring.
My boys are 7 and 8. Our favorite way to study is to go to the creek and see what we can find and do research. Also, bird watching!!
My kids are 9, 7 and 5. There favourite thing to do in the spring is explore the flooded woodland behind the house. Last year, we collected frog eggs.
My boys are 4 and 3 years old. We love to take nature walks. We have a woods nearby with a huge swing off a tall tree and it is a delightful stop during our walk!
My children are 7, 6, and 4. They love climbing on our rock wall, and discovering animal tracks. We also do a lot of hiking and camping.
Mine are 7 9 11 and 13 and really only one word is necessary about how they explore nature: dirt. (Mud, soil, humus, loam… Dirt.)
My kiddos are 9, 7 and 5 . We enjoy nature regularly with bike rides , trips to local parks and nature walks . Thanks for the chance to win. 🙂
My sons are 3, 6, and 12. They like to play in the mud and run around on a nice spring day.
Our kids are 10, 5, and 3. They love being up close and personal with nature, and the 5yr. old especially likes watching and playing with bugs. The 10-yr old has a microscope and loves to look at new and different things through it.
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My kiddo are 10, 8, and 4. We love hiking in our area and exploring nature that way. 🙂
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My children are almost 4 and 6. Their favourite way to learn about nature is through immersing themselves in it, often literally! They enjoy mud baths and looking for tadpoles. Recently we have been learning about how the water cycle helps to create river banks, delta’s and beaches. There’s so many fascinating things to learn by getting out there!
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My 5 year old daughter loves to pick wildflowers and go for nature walks, in the spring.
We are in the UK, lucky enough to live in the countryside, surrounded by nature, no light pollution, visiting foxes and hares, rabbits in the garden, weasels and badgers in the lane. So I really would like to list all the lovely ways the children (11, 10, 9 and visiting 2yo cousin) explore nature. But today it was rolling in the freshly mown grass clippings. A lot. at least we got them to an art gallery and manga class beforehand. That is bragging. Most days it would just be rolling in the grass.
Our son is almost 8 and our daughter is almost 4. Their favorite way to to explore nature in the spring is to just be outside and explore on their own and ask as many questions as they can.
Both my three year old and five year old L. O. V. E. the outdoors! From making their own garden, digging up worms, melting snow in the creek to hikes, chasing birds and squirrels and climbing rocks. So much to learn about!
My kids are 12, 7 and 6. We love to get out and hike. we recently just started a family garden with my brother and his family we are having so much fun learning about planting times and soils and composting. 🙂
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My boys are 4 and 6 and love anything to do with dirt. They love planting seeds, digging holes and filling with water, hunting for animal tracks in the mud, making dams in streams, etc.
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I have six kids ranging from 1-12, we love the spring as we can spend more time outdoors. We live near a national park and our favourite things to do are hiking, exploring the park, looking at wild flowers and bugs and generally just enjoying being outside more.
My boys are 9 and 7. They love everything about nature – observing it, playing and digging, gardening and even reading about it.
My son is 12 years old. He loves to explore outside. We have a small creek that runs along our property and he loves spending time finding creatures and treasures. He really likes watching the frogs in their different stages.
Our children are 12,11, and 5. We like to go on nature walks in the spring and listen to all the different birds’ songs and try to identify them. The boys like to see the snakes in the slough nearby. We like to go poking around looking for any living creatures and new growth of perennials.
Our kids (11, 9, and 3) have recently taken up kayaking in the bay near our home! It’s a great way to see the bay system and tidal pools from a whole new perspective!
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My kids are 5 and 2. We walk our dogs every day around a lake near our house and when we return my 5 year old (and sometimes the 2 year old also) always has a collection of rocks, plants, flowers , sticks. Basically anything and everything he can get his hands on and bring back. He’s been desperate to catch a dragonfly but I told him they have to remain in nature because it’s not fair to keep them as pets. He has already declared that he is a scientist of all things so I think he would love these lessons!
I have 7, 5, 4 and 2 year old kiddos and they love to get out in the garden and yard and find insects and worms. My 5 year old turns over rocks and leaves and always has some kind of habitat going for a beetle or worm.
My kids are 6 and 11. We just love to go outside for nature walks and collect everything that interests us to inspect later.
My kids are 7, 6, and 3 and they love nature walks and just exploring outside.
My critters are 7 & 10 and they like to get outside and explore 🙂
My kids are 9 and 7. We live in Vancouver, so my kids love to explore the rain forests, ocean beaches, lakes, mountains on a snowy day, and they participate in a 2-day/week outdoor school for homeschooled kids (called Fresh Air Learning) which takes them on countless outdoor adventures. Thank you for this chance to win!
We have an 9, 5, and 2 year old. When we’re on our way home from walking the oldest to school, we go pretty slowly so we can see the worms and snails and birds and cats along the way. It never gets old for them.
I have three children 5, 3, and 1 years old. My children like to hike and take a close look at all the animals, trees, sticks, and bugs!
7, 5, & 18mths. They LOVE digging in the mud and turning over rocks to find bugs.
My kids are 8, 5, and 2. In the spring they love to go out everyday and monitor the growing things in our yard: what has sprouted today, what has buds, what is blooming or opening? Every morning there is something new!
My superhero kid is 6 and he can be found outside most days either hiking, climbing, digging, throwing rocks in a creek or fishing.
I have a thee year old and a 6month old. My daughter loves to go on nature walks and help in the garden. We are so looking forward to warm weather!
My son is 5, we don’t have spring in indonesia, but we have sun all year round. So for nature, what he likes to do is looking and experimenting with leaves, flowers, and helping me taking care of my hydroponic plants.
My children, who are 20 months and almost 5 years old, absolutely love being outdoors after a long winter. Hiking, biking, camping, pruning trees, digging in the fresh dirt…they love it all. We have a garden, so they have little jobs helping with preparing soil and starting seeds in the early spring. They also love to watch our fruit trees in our backyard blossom and start producing fruit when the weather warms up.
My only daughter is 8 and she loves to explore outside during spring in her bare feet, armed with a magnifying glass, pencil and paper, and SNACKS! This would be a perfect discovery for her!
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My boys are 5 & 3! Their favorite way to explore spring is with the neighborhood kids hanging out in the bushes, searching for spiders, and enjoying some late spring rain!
My daughter is 4.5 and she loves to go out in the woods and search for peepers!
My children are 1.5 years and 6.5 years old. We love to notice the patterns of birds. Where are they going? What are they saying? What are they collecting?
Ages 8 and 11. Hiking in the national forest as a family, exploring our homestead, and attending Friday Forest Walks with local homeschoolers.
My children are 9, 9 and 3. We live in Vancouver where spring is about blossoms; cherry blossoms, salmon berry blossoms, apple blossoms, we like to watch the changes everyday as the blossoms open, invite the bees and gradually change into fruit.