• November 2021 Wild Kids Magazine
    Autumn

    Wild Kids Magazine for November 2021

    Happy November! Here’s this month’s issue of Wild Kids Magazine. In this month’s issue, we have a foraging crossword puzzle, information on how to make a wildlife blind, a bird and animal track worksheet and ID pages, ways to learn and have fun in nature in November, info on foraging rose hips, plus all the usual seasonal poetry, botanical coloring pages, and lots more. As always, the magazine is ad-free and 100% free to read online, read on your e-reader, or to print out.  This issue is 20 pages.  It’s designed to be printed on both sides of the paper if you want to print it as a paper magazine…

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  • October 2021 Wild Kids Magazine
    Autumn

    Wild Kids Magazine for October 2021

    Happy October!  I hope you and your loved ones are happy and healthy. In this month’s issue of Wild Kids Magazine you can find your foraging name, learn how to “play the landscape” with music, play our fall foraging BINGO and make shrunken heads from apples (a repeat from a few years ago because it’s so much fun this time of year!).  We also have botanical coloring pages on bindweed and long-stalked cranesbill with info on how to use (and get rid of) bindweed, plus all the usual nature journal pages, seasonal poetry, a weather tree and more. Here’s the link for the October 2021 issue.  It is 18 pages…

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  • Autumn

    Wild Kids Magazine for September 2021

    Happy September!  I hope you and your loved ones are happy and healthy. In this month’s issue of Wild Kids Magazine we have information about fall wildflowers with wildflower journal pages, a nature mason jar collection project, and botanical coloring pages and information on cornflowers and teasel.  We also have a sky wheel and phenology calendar for the month and all the usual nature journal pages, seasonal poetry, weather tree and more. Here’s the link for the September 2021 issue: Wild Kids Magazine for September 2021 Here’s a bit more information on some of this month’s topics. Cornflowers American Meadows has all kinds of great information about the history of…

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  • August 2021 Wild Kids Magazine
    Summer

    Wild Kids Magazine for August 2021

      Happy August!  How can we be more than halfway through 2021 already? I hope you and your family are safe and well, and you’ve found some great ways to enjoy the outdoors lately. In this month’s Wild Kids Magazine, we’re focusing on insects with some cool facts about how they use their colors and other parts of their designs.  Kids can design their own insects and they’ll also learn about blue vervain and poppies.  We also have a color matching nature scavenger hunt and all the usual nature journal pages, seasonal poetry, a nature tracking calendar, a weather tree and more. Here’s the link for the August 2021 issue…

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    Wild Kids Magazine for July 2021

    Happy July! Welcome to this month’s issue of Wild Kids Magazine. In this months’ issue, we learn about two kinds of flowers, Oxeye daisies (which are often found in the wild) and hollyhocks (which are lovely to grow in gardens). We’ve also got information on how to make a butterfly puddler, a bug hunting challenge, ways to learn and play in nature this month, plus all the usual nature journal pages, foraging record keeping pages, nature poetry and more. The magazine is 18 pages this month. You can read it, download it or print it here: July 2021 Wild Kids Magazine As always, the magazine is ad-free and 100% free…

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  • June 2021 Wild kids Magazine
    Summer

    Wild Kids Magazine for June 2021

    Happy June!  Welcome to this month’s issue of Wild Kids Magazine. In this months’ issue, we learn about two kinds of flowers, irises and flax. We’ve also got some fun foraging mad libs, a June foraging find-it, ways to learn and play in nature this month, plus all the usual nature journal pages, foraging record keeping pages and some poems from the children’s nature poetry book I co-wrote with my daughter Rhia (I did the poems, she did the drawings). The magazine is 20 pages this month.  You can read it, download it or print it here: June 2021 Wild Kids Magazine Note:  The spacing is off a bit at…

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  • May 2021 Wild Kids Magazine
    Spring

    Wild Kids Magazine for May 2021

    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…

  • April 2021 Wild Kids
    Spring

    Wild Kids Magazine for April 2021

    Hello April!  It’s another wonderful month to get outside and have some wild fun. Here’s the April 2021 issue of Wild Kids Magazine: April 2021 Wild Kids Magazine This month’s issue is 18 pages and, as always, it is ad-free and 100% free to read digitally or print out.  You can also print out just the nature journal pages, if you and your kiddos want to read the rest on an e-reader. In this month’s issue, we have information about foraging wild greens and how to use them, a kids’ foraging pledge, a phenology calendar and night sky wheel, and much more, with botanical coloring pages for lilies and primroses,…

  • March 2021 Wild Kids Magazine
    Spring

    Wild Kids for March 2021

    Happy March!  The year is starting to fly by, isn’t it?  (Thank goodness!)  The seasons are changing and all kinds of new adventures are waiting for us outside. Here’s the March 2021 issue of Wild Kids Magazine.  This month’s issue is 20 pages and, as always, it is ad-free and 100% free to read online or print out. In this month’s issue, we have information about using the scents of plants to help identify them, the importance of learning poisonous plants (especially in your flower gardens), an edible flower word search, a Bird BINGO game and more, with botanical coloring pages for lily-of-the-valleys and pansies, and all of the usual…

  • Feb 2021 Wild Kids Magazine
    Winter

    Wild Kids Magazine for February 2021

    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…

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