Thanksgiving is fast approaching. It's a good time to reevaluate where the year is going and what we want to have more of. This year, we had a lot of art and nature study. We don't do this every day, nor do we have a set schedule for doing it. We often take a hike and make 4 nature journal entries that week, then don't make any at all the next week because it was rainy and yucky outside. It's an art. Like any other art, it is dependent on mood, weather, season, etc. But after a few years, the books fill up, and wow! What an incredible hobby it has turned out to be!
Here are a few entries for this autumn:
Here are a few entries for this autumn:
One nature study subject came quite out of the blue... he was in our Costco shopping cart!
We learned that the Praying Mantis changes its color during its molt based on the colors around them. They are not like chameleon, where they can just change at any time, but in years where there is far more yellow than green, the mantis will change during a molt to adapt to its surroundings! Because this spring was so wet and this summer so dry, we had a lot of very tall, very yellow grass. I believe the mantis adapted to that environmental change and many of them turned yellow!
It was a very cool subject, because none of the Mantis in the books were yellow. Not one.
It has been so fun to do this beautiful art with the kids. It has always been my favorite subject!
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The pictures you have taken are amazing. :) Lovely job. The idea of journaling and combining art (drawings) in your journaling is so great. :) I am interested in the books that you have in your pictures. What are the books that you are using? The drawings in those books look great too. :) Thank you so much for sharing. :)
Stacey :)
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