I am so glad you found this post, Melissa. It sounds like it’s truly perfect for you! Please subscribe, if you haven’t already, so you can have full access to all my printables and the booklet to help you get started. For now, you’ll want to fill out the pages of your Backyard Book yourself, after you learn neat facts together with your children. They could get involved by drawing a line showing how long an insect or a flower petal is or “draw” what they found. I’m working on writing a complete book of how our family assembled our Backyard Book, including multi-age-appropriate printables for every nature study imaginable. I’m hoping to be able to publish it this year.

This is such a lovely post! My granddaughter and I do some nature study when she’s here in the summers, and we raised monarchs from caterpillar to butterfly one year. We have a few papers lying around along with those of my homeschooled children; I wish I’d thought to put them all together in a notebook. And as always, I love your photos.

Glad you asked, Laura, because I love the answer: “Cookies” is the title of our favorite Frog and Toad children’s story. Being such an awesome frog, he deserved to be named after an awesome amphibian anecdote. 🙂

Thanks, Christa. Our Backyard Book holds the status of a family heirloom to me. Someday I may have to make 4 copies of it all, so every girl can have her own copy. The only hard part to that is all the 3D additions to many pages, dried blooms, butterfly wings, bird feathers, etc.