Here are some nature projects you can do at home in your own backyard, at a park or a nature center. Let us know if you have any questions or projects of your own.

A Nature Notebook: Use an inexpensive small notebook, and decorate the cover with drawings, stickers or a collage. Magazines are good for make the collage. Pick a special time each week to sit in the backyard or front yard, or a park. Take the notebooks and pencils or crayons, with you. Look around and sketch what you see! A leaf can be traced. A flower or tree can be drawn, or a bird. Even the clouds swirling around in the sky are there for you to sketch. It doesn't matter how the drawings look. What matters is that you are learning to notice the things around you and sharing your thoughts with your family and friends.

A Nature Collage: Ask an adult for magazines that you may cut up. Look through the magazines for pictures of flowers, trees, bugs, birds or wildlife that are similar to what is in your backyard. Cut them into nice shapes, then glue them onto cardboard or construction paper. Make the collage by overlapping the pictures a little bit until the entire page is filled. You can then glue on feathers, leaves, dried flowers or bits of moss where there are small open spaces. You can frame your collage too, or hang it as it is in your room. You will be bringing nature inside to enjoy!

Queen Anne's Lace:This flower is really a pretty "weed" that grows in many places. It is round, white and frilly looking. You can cut it with a fairly long stem, about 6 to 10 inches from the flower. Fill a glass or vase with fresh water and add drops of food coloring. Put your flowers in the water, and after awhile the Queen Anne's Lace will turn color! Do you know why?