Nature gives us numerous opportunities to study God's beautiful nature, whether it be spring, summer, fall, and winter. Many people miss opportunities to just to "smell the roses" so-to-speak. They miss the changing of the colors of the leaves in the fall, the new flowers blooming in the spring, the buzzing of the honey bees as they travel from flower to flower pollinating, the beauty of the sun shining on the red blossoms of the apple and cherry trees... So many things of beauty that people simply walk by. What a shame that is. God did an amazing, wondrous job when He created this earth!
Not only are their trees, flowers, berries, thorns and thistles, and many other plants, but there are frogs, toads, butterflies, earthworms, black & brown squirrels, and so much more outside, IF we take the time to just go outside and look around.
Nature study is something that you can do at home, even if that means just taking a walk around your block, strolling beside a river bed, walking the acreage of the farm you live on, going to a nearby park, or even picking a specific plant or animal, and looking it up in a nature study book, or going online and researching it. We personally the book, "Handbook of Nature Study," by Anna Botsford Comstock as our reference guide. Making a nature notebook is a perfect idea for keeping track of everything we see and learn!!
This is one example of a project we did where we could watch the lifecycle of a caterpillar turn in to a butterfly, or moth, in our case.
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