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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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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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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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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Wild Kids Magazine for January 2021
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…
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Wild Kids Magazine for December 2020
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…
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Wild Kids Magazine for November 2020
Happy November! Here’s this month’s issue of Wild Kids Magazine. Wild Kids Magazine for November 2020 In this month’s issue, we have nature ID sheets (some common examples and sheets to make your own), information about finding accessible trails for everyone, herbal info on calamint and dead nettle, ideas for nature crafts and fun, plus all the usual seasonal nature poems, nature journal pages and more. This month’s issue is 18 pages and as always, it’s ad-free and 100% free to read digitally or print out. Feel free to pass it on to anyone who might benefit. Here’s a little bit of extra information on some of this month’s…
