Happy 2022!  Updated on January 2nd!  I noticed when my daughter Fiona tried to use the foraging ID cards in the magazine that I had it so they weren’t printing with the names on the backs if you printed on both sides of the paper because of the order the pages were in.  I moved another page down past the foraging cards so now they print properly.  What a way to start the year!  😉   This is the updated magazine: Here is the January 2022 issue of Wild Kids Magazine.  This month’s issue is 22 pages.  As always, it’s in PDF form so you can read it online, send…

Happy December!  Where did the year go?! Here is the December issue of Wild Kids Magazine.  This month’s issue is 22 pages.  As always, it’s in PDF form so you can read it online or on your e-reader, or you can print it out.  And as always, the magazine is 100% ad-free and free for personal use. This month’s Wild Kids Magazine has some foraging cards you can print out for your kiddos.  You can print out two copies to use them for matching games, or one copy to use them for flash cards or ID cards.  We have instructions inside on how to use them for various fun purposes.…

Happy February! This month’s issue of Wild Kids Magazine has the story behind why many countries made it illegal to collect feathers, a new nature art project to try that I’ve dubbed the crayon box nature art project (what a clunky name!), information about growing columbines and wallflowers, a worksheet to help learn some Latin names of common wild and garden plants, plus all the usual nature poetry, nature journal pages, foraging information and more. Here’s the link to download the magazine.  This month’s issue is 18 pages.  You can read it online, on an e-reader (save the PDF and mail it to your kindle address to read it on…

Happy New Year!  I hope 2021 finds you healthy and happy. Here’s the link to the January 2021 issue of Wild Kids Magazine. This month’s issue is 20 pages and, as always, is ad-free and 100% free to read online or print out. In this month’s issue, we’ve got all kinds of info on squirrels and how to help them and enjoy them, whether it’s in your yard or at the park.  We’ve also got some ideas for snow painting, information about hyacinths and artichokes, a foraging match up to ID some common wild edible foods, nature journal pages, ways to have fun with nature and lots more. I’ve decided…

Happy December!  It doesn’t seem possible that this month is upon us already. This month also marks two years that I’ve been putting out Wild Kids Magazine, which doesn’t seem possible.  I’ve always said that I would take it year by year in deciding whether to do another year, and I’ve decided to commit to another one, even though my family always thinks I’m nuts because I am so frantic at the end of every month putting it together!  😉  It seems like the world needs all the nature and fun it can get right now. Our first year’s botanical coloring pages were for wild foods to forage, and this year’s…

Happy February!   Here is this month’s issue of Wild Kids Magazine.:   February 2020 Wild Kids Magazine This issue is 22 pages and as always, it is ad-free and 100% free to read online or print out. This month, we have information on how to feed wild birds by hand, instructions to make a simple shell or stone sundial, learning abut aloe and mallow, and vintage wild bird collectible cards, along with the usual seasonal poems, botanical coloring pages, nature journal pages and more. I think that we finally have the subscribe button working (fingers crossed).  A few people had trouble clicking the confirmation link, but it always worked…

Happy 2020! It’s a brand new year of Wild Kids Magazine, with some fun new additions.  We’ll be offering collectable nature cards in each issue of 2020, starting with butterfly fairy cards this year (real species of butterfly wings shown on drawings of ladies from the 1920’s).  Later in the year we’ll have other cards like flowers, fish, animals and birds’ eggs. For our botanical coloring pages, we’ll be offering herbal pages this year.  Some will be herbs that you can forage, while others will be ones that you can grow in your garden or on your balcony or windowsill.  They are still based on drawings by the wonderful Elizabeth…

Happy December! Here’s the link for this month’s Wild Kids Magazine: Wild Kids Magazine for December This issue marks our 12th issue of Wild Kids Magazine! This month’s issue is 20 pages (PDF) and as always it can be read online or printed out. From the intro: In this issue, we have: Fun ways to celebrate the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year for those of us in the Northern hemisphere. Information on winter foraging and all of the wild plants you can still find when the weather gets cold. Coloring pages for spruce and chestnuts, two very timely wild plants for December. Botanical gift tags of all…

Here is the February issue of Wild Kids Magazine! This month’s issue is longer than usual at 22 pages, in PDF format. This issue includes an article on foraging cattails by 15 year-old Johnathon, instructions for making homemade play dough with all kinds of natural ingredients to use for dye, foraging coloring pages for burdock and mullein, a six-page printable animal and bird track ID guide, 10 ways to have fun with nature this month, seasonal poems, a February nature journal and more. You can download the PDF or read it online here: February Wild Kids Magazine Here are some great pages to help you learn more about this month’s…

It’s here!  Here is the download for the January edition of Wild Kids Magazine.  The magazine is full color and is 16 pages in PDF format.  Feel free to read it online with your kids or print it out.  It includes printable plant ID pages, nature journal pages and other printables, so you may want to at least print those out if they’re helpful. Here are some fabulous web sites to learn more and have more fun with this month’s themes: Foraging Pine Needles Conifer Confusion: An Identification Guide for Pine, Spruce, and Fir Trees, by Gardener’s Path Foraging for Pine Needles (and other conifer needles), by Grow Forage Cook…