My Big World of Wonder: Activities for Learning About Nature and Using Natural Resources Wisely by Sheri Griffin is a book that is worth checking out... especially for those of you who are early childhood educators or homeschooling mamas/papas. This book is filled with activities divided up by season; activities range from simple activities like stories and discussion to more hands-on activities like nature walks, bug collecting, seed collection, tree rubbings and many more. Each activity comes with discussion questions to get the children thinking, as well as optional art projects based on the activity.
This book seems like it would be best for preschool age children in a school setting, however, there are many ideas from this book that I will likely use at home with Finn. Some of the ideas were a little bit on the iffy side (like making bacon to discuss where our food comes from.... how would that be using natural resources wisely?), but all in all there are some good ideas in here with some good questions to spark discussion.
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