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Education in the garden with Miles Kelly/ The Wildlife trusts handbooks

20th July 2015 by Jax Blunt 1 Comment

A few weeks ago I picked up several rather lovely Miles Kelly/ wildlife trusts handbooks in Lidl. I got British Birds, British Wildflowers and Trees Handbook (British Handbooks) (amazon affiliate link), and British wildlife.

They’re not just fact books, although that would be pretty good in itself. Instead they’re structured as handbooks, with spaces for observations, drawings, photos as well as identifying information about each species so that you can find them.

identifying poppies

We started in the garden, and found poppies. Smallest had her camera and after we’d done some measuring (our poppy was bigger than the 7cm mentioned) we did some drawing and painting too.

watercolour poppy

I can see these books being a core of our education at least in the warmer months ๐Ÿ˜‰ Smallest loves all things nature, and so does Tigerboy for that matter. And I’m getting into drawing myself.

A good learning day. (Tomorrow I’m going to help them find the cornflower ๐Ÿ˜‰ )

cornflower

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Filed Under: Doodling, drawing and decoration., how we do it, It's where it is Tagged With: garden, Miles Kelly, poppy, wildflowers, Wildlife trusts

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  1. Adele @ Circus Queen says

    20th July 2015 at 10:39 pm

    What fun! We’re loving spotting flowers this time of year. We have a National Trust book that helps with identifying them but I like the idea of space to write, draw, etc.

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