Nature Journaling During the Holidays?!
What happens to your nature journaling during the holidays? Do you get too busy with buying gifts, preparing food, and family obligations? In addition to the stress of the holidays is the challenging weather this season brings for those in the North. We were on a roll in the summer and early fall yet now we […]
Nature Journaling a Home Experiment: Challenge day 30
Have you ever done an experiment and nature journaled it? Did you now that baking brownies two different ways and doing a side by side test of them can count as an experiment? Today’s Prompt: Home Experiment It is easy to fall into a comfortable routine with nature journaling. I go to the same park […]
Nature Journaling the Cardinal Directions: Challenge Day 29
Did you ever draw compass roses as a kid? Do you include the cardinal directions in your nature journal pages today? Today’s Prompt: Cardinal directions, two minute sketch each direction The prompt for today was another one that was proposed by a member of the nature journal club facebook group. The idea was attributed to […]
Questions in your nature journal: Challenge day 28
How do you use questions in your nature journal? Did you know asking questions is one of the best ways to learn in nature? Today’s Prompt: Questions, Questions, Questions Questions are arguably one of the most important parts of modern nature journaling. The asking of questions also sets what we do apart from the illustrated […]
Nature Journaling Your Self: Challenge Day 27
Have you tried nature journaling yourself? Today’s Prompt: Parachute yourself into your nature journal page I first heard this expression from Mark Simmons. Mark is a nature journaler, comic artist, and curious kid in an adults clothes. The basic idea here is simple and makes a lot of sense. Basically including ourselves on our nature […]
Nature Journaling With a “Muggle”: Challenge Day 26
Have you ever nature journaled with a muggle aka someone who doesn’t nature journal? What about with a group of muggles? Today’s Prompt: Nature journaling with a muggle In the Harry Potter book series, people who do not use magic are called muggles. Soon we will see that this term might not be the best […]
Smaller than your pinky: Challenge Day 25
How often do you nature journal something smaller than your pinky? Are you biased towards bigger subjects? Today’s Prompt: Smaller than your pinky I can’t remember who on the Nature Journal Club Facebook page recommended this prompt. This is a funny prompt regardless. In fact it could be just funny enough to break you out […]
Nature Journal Inter-species Relationships: Challenge Day 24
Why do we usually nature journal one organism or species at a time? How can we nature journal inter-species relationships? Today’s Prompt: Inter-species Relationship There are a lot of interesting relationships in nature. Some of the most interesting are those between members of different species. How can we capture these relationships in our nature journals? […]
Dawn, Day, Night: Challenge Day 23
Do you always nature journal at the same time of day? Today’s Prompt: Dawn, Day, Night Last year I did a prompt for nature journaling inktober challenge about nature journaling at night. This year, someone on the Nature Journal Club Facebook page proposed “Dawn, day, night.” What a great idea! Especially for the equinox! For […]
Gratitude Journal/Colors: Challenge Day 22
Do you ever gratitude journal? Do you ever just play with colors? Today’s Prompt: Gratitude/Colors How can we combine these seemingly unrelated things? Both of these practices have useful benefits. Let’s try mixing them into our regular nature journaling practice. As usual feel free to take the prompt and improvise with it. The following is […]