Nature Study

Inspiring the next generation of explorers, adventurers and scientists

Contents

Winter

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Seasons

Use these pictures as a starting point to find out what your children know already about the different seasons. Click the image and use the prompts below to help with your sustained shared thinking together.

Winter Bucket List

  • Have a soup night
  • Play a board game
  • Go for a walk or a drive and see the winter lights
  • Decorate a tree
  • Make decorations using nature
  • Make pinecone bird feeders
  • Read stories in a home made den
More Winter Ideas

Summer Bucket List

  • Run through a meadow
  • Star gaze
  • Visit an allotment
  • Go camping over night
  • Forage for berries
  • Have a picnic somewhere beautiful
  • Bury your feet in warm sand

Spring Bucket List

  • Visit a pond and look for wildlife
  • Visit a woodland area full of bluebells, snow drops and wild garlic
  • Plant some seeds
  • Visit a farm and meet the baby animals
  • Find a rainbow
  • Have a spring clean
More Spring Ideas

Autumn Bucket List

  • Go apple picking
  • Make an autumn wreath
  • Drink hot chocolate
  • Go to a pumpkin patch
  • Jump in a pile of leaves
  • Rake the leaves up
  • Go hunting for acorns and conkers

It’s a beautiful experience teaching preschoolers in the garden and watching them connect with nature

The button below is a beautiful webpage which has inspired Natural Choice Nurseries to conduct preschool appropriate garden lessons in ways that grow their positive garden association into an understanding of basic science, art, and social studies concepts.

Preschool Gardening

As the year goes on, we can share more ways to explore the outdoors and nature. We can’t wait to show you what we get up to!