Happy May! Here is the May 2024 issue of Wild Kids Magazine. In this month’s issue, we have instructions for making a wire-wrapped nature pendant, a Bug Bingo game, information about how poison ivy can help nature and how to stay safe from it and other plants that can cause harmful rashes, a nature photo challenge for May, coloring pages and information on invasive ground ivy and wild parsnip, ways to learn and play with nature this month, and all of the usual nature study pages, a weather tree, poetry and more. This month’s issue is 18 pages. As always, it’s in PDF form so you can read it online,…

Happy April! Here is the April 2024 issue of Wild Kids Magazine. In this month’s issue, we have a printable concentration card game to learn Latin and common names for helpful wild plants, info on how to make and recognize different frog calls (and how to make your own frog caller!), a nature photo challenge for April, information on ways to use invasive Bradford pear trees and English ivy, a phenology calendar for the month, ways to learn and play with nature this month, and all of the usual nature study pages, a weather tree, poetry and more. This month’s issue is 22 pages. As always, it’s in PDF form…

Happy May!  What a lot of great opportunities there are to play in nature this month! Here is the May 2023 issue of Wild Kids Magazine. In this month’s issue of Wild Kids, we have information on how to make color changing violet sugar, plus how to measure the wind with a printable Beaufort scale wheel. We also have instructions for making May Day baskets, plus information about pheasant back/dryad’s saddle mushrooms and porcini/bolete mushrooms, some mushroom poems, and all of the usual nature study pages, a weather tree and more. This month’s issue is 22 pages. As always, it’s in PDF form so you can read it online, send…

Happy April!  What a lot of great opportunities there are to play in nature this month! Here is the April 2023 issue of Wild Kids Magazine. In this month’s issue of Wild Kids, we have a cooperative foraging card game for kids to learn some spring wild edibles. We also have wild prompts for different things to do outside each day, plus information about morel and shaggy mane mushrooms, an April phenology page and sky wheel, and all of the usual nature study pages, a weather tree, seasonal poetry and more. This month’s issue is 22 pages. As always, it’s in PDF form so you can read it online, send…

Happy March! Here is this month’s issue of Wild Kids Magazine. This month we’ve got some nature art pages for the kids to take outside to do different little artistic challenges each day. We have another nature photo challenge this month with a different prompt each day for nature photos to take. We’ve also got a foraging BINGO page for wild edible and medicinal plants you can find in cities and neighborhoods, plus information all about enoki and oyster mushrooms, a March phenology page and all of the usual nature study pages, a weather tree, seasonal poetry and more. This month’s issue is 26 pages.  As always, it’s in PDF…

Happy May!  Here is this month’s issue of Wild Kids Magazine. May 2022 Wild Kids Magazine In this month’s issue, kids will learn about raptors and they can take their own raptor spotter outside (similar to the cloud spotter of last month).  They’ll also learn about the wacky and wonderful plants with wort in their names.  I’ve reprinted the instructions for making flower crowns from the May 2019 issue and we have botanical coloring pages for pimpernel and pilewort.  As always, we also have seasonal poetry, nature journal pages, 10 ways to learn and play with nature this month and more. This month’s issue is 18 pages, designed to be…

Happy April!  Here’s this month’s issue of Wild Kids magazine. In this month’s Wild Kids, we have information for kids to start their own container gardens, a cloud spotter to print out and take outside to ID clouds, and a foraging wish list form, plus all the usual botanical coloring pages, seasonal poetry, ways to learn and play in nature, nature study pages and more. This month’s magazine is 20 pages, in PDF form as always.  You can print it out, read it online, or send it to your kindle address.  And as always, it’s 100% ad-free and free to use for personal or educational use. Feel free to share…

Happy May!  Sorry this is a bit late today.  Our family has three birthdays in a four day period so this is always a busy time of the year for us, to say the least!  Our son Jack turned 18 yesterday and our oldest child, Toria, turned 23 today.  Then on Monday, our son Alex will turn 14 (and on Tuesday I will sleep a lot!). I tried to gather lots of fun things for this month’s issue.  We have some fun stuff about looking at nature up close with a pocket scope or other magnifying device, some projects using peonies for science (and jelly!), 10 great ways to use…