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Wildflowers Unit Study & Lapbook

In addition, I’ve rounded up some resources to make this wildflower unit study come to life.

Wildflowers Lesson Plan & Ideas

Petal Attraction. Why different pollinators are attracted to different types of flowers
Wildflowers in Bloom has images of many of the most showy wildflowers.
Use these poem ideas about botany for some memory work or copywork.
Great interactive site about the biology of plants.
Seed dispersal. pdf.

Wildflowers Media & Interactive.

EASY Crafts, Hands-on Ideas, and Activities About Wildflowers Unit Study

Do not miss these fabulous and free coloring books full of wildflowers. These also make great covers for the outside of your lapbook.

The coloring books are California Plants to Color, Coloring Book of the Western Great Lakes Region, Plants to Color from the Aspen Forest, Wildflowers of the Colorado Mountain Tops, Wildflowers of Ponderosa Pine Forests, Celebrate Wildflowers of Southwest Idaho and Wildflowers of the Western U.S.

Oh goodness, what is there to not love about the ideas on this flower and garden site?

Tissue paper flowers, make flowers out of household items like straws, make paper flower baskets, create stinkin’ cute hand print flowers, spinning paper plate flower, make cupcake wrapper flowers, egg carton flowers, crepe flowers and make a booklet that opens up into a daisy.

And grab this free make your own flowers guide to go with this sweet book, Rose’s Garden. While waiting for her garden to bloom children bring Rose flowers they’ve made from different material.

If you’re looking to do any spring nature studies, you’ll want to get a few of the NaturExplorers. I love those studies for multiple ages.

Other Nature Study Ideas

This foraging and feasting nature unit study and lapbook is not only a way to teach Tiny some basic survival skills, but a great way to sneak in tips about how to cook. Also, look at my pages Best Homeschool Unit Studies and Homeschool Lapbooks – Powerful Tools For Mastery Learning for more ideas.

My kids have always loved ways of learning how to live off the land.

I don’t want to give you the wrong impression about our foraging efforts because we’re currently city dwellers although not by choice.

Foraging and Feasting Nature Unit Study and Lapbook

That means we have a lot to learn even if we can find a field nearby that is legal and safe to forage. Even though we don’t live in the country anymore, we still have a love of it.

Besides enjoying the beauty of nature, learning the basics of foraging makes for a fun unit study and appreciation for the gifts of plants.

When you can tie in learning about nature with a practical life skill like cooking, I think that it’s a win win.

Foraging and Feasting Nature Unit Study and Lapbook

Making healthy choices for food is important to us as well, but it starts first with being able to identify how to forage.

We live in an area that has lots of wildlife and nature, but it’s still a city like I mentioned earlier.

On our nature walks we try to take time to identify plants along the way and learn about wild edible plants.

It’s not just a matter of finding the right plant parts, but identifying which parts are safe to eat and ones are tasty.

We’ve been learning out of this beautiful book, Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook to use as our guide for this fun summer unit study.

One of the reasons I chose the book was because not only did it have beautiful, detailed plant images and colorful plant guides in the front, but it has tons of recipes.

A science cookbook as I call it.

In addition, at the bottom in the gray area are details about how to use the plant parts.

Although it may seem easier to identify plants, one key thing we have been learning is that it’s equally important in which parts of the plant are the most tastiest.

Also, you need to learn how to leave enough of it so that it can replenish and that may mean taking an inventory.

So, it’s responsibly foraging too so that enough remains of the plant to reproduce.

There is so much to learn about each of the plant parts and their uses for cooking that it has taken us a while to identify and learn about them.

It has made an awesome reference book for tying in science and nature study with a life skill like cooking.

Next, look at more foraging activities.

More Foraging Activities

Art of Foraging | How to Make A Dandelion Kids Activity Soap

I’ve gathered some resources to help you round out this unit study and of course I have my next free nature study lapbook that I’ve been doing in this series.