Nature Bag by Sylvie de Sousa & Katharine Byers

The next time you take your children to the local park, take along this Nature Bag by Sylvie de Sousa and Katharine Byers. You and your children will be on a Nature “Hunt” as you explore  the nature surrounding you.

The Bag includes leaf viewers, color cards, hemp twine, a magnifying glass and recycled pen and paper to jot down your notes. It will turn an ordinary outing into an adventure.

Be sure to talk about it with your children before you go out. When my children and I were planning a car trip up to Monterey, California, I put up a large map of California in our dining room and marked the different stops we would make. I put up pamphlets and postcards, newspaper clippings and info from the Internet that had interesting facts and fun pictures of the places we would see. It made the trip all the more exciting because they’d helped in the planning. You can do likewise on a simple outing to the park.

Let your children’s (and your) imaginations run wild. Visit NaturalPod.com to view this item, priced at $34.99 CAD (about $29 USD).