7 Steps to Creating Your Own Nature Journal

 
How do you keep a Nature Journal? 

Discover God's First Classic through Nature Journaling

This earth was created by God and all things denote there is a God. This is God's first classic and through its workings we can see God's hand and learn eternal laws. The door to our Father's study can always opened by us. It is easy to introduce and integrate science, art, and literature into your homeschool curriculum through nature journaling.

Nature Studies and Nature Journaling: A Parent Child Journey

Do you find the idea of studying science intimidating? Did you have a distasteful experience in school, turning you off to natural science? Homeschooler, have your friends asked the "What about science" question? Most people believe the myth that  science can only be taught and learned in the classroom, with textbooks, using expensive equipment, and taught by an college trained and certified licensed science teacher. Not even close to the truth. Most great scientists and inventors of the past were not textbook trained by certified teachers.  

The pathway to a solid foundation in science is as close as your own front door. Our methods are natural and not difficult to learn or implement:

15 Prompts To Help you with your Journal Writing

Have you ever looked at a blank page and had writer's block? That can happen in journaling too. I have created a book mark with 15 Prompts to help you consider what to write. First, I want to talk about the prompts on the bookmark.

Journal Ideas That are Easy, Creative and Fun!

"Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity. Begin today and write in it your goings and comings, your deepest thoughts, your achievements and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies." (New Era, Oct. 1975, 5). —President Spencer W. Kimball
The Lord has asked us through the prophets to keep a journal. Faith in God, Duty to God, and Personal Progress, all have journaling components. There are online ways to keep a journal.  

However, I do like the book idea better. 





I find journal writing naturally develops the discipline of writing habit and gives daily penmanship.

Creation Zones of Cleaning

This is my deep cleaning creation zone plan! 

Home Making, an Exercise in Creativity

Have you ever considered how home making is creative?

I love Mary Ellen Smoot's talk--"We are Creators." There is "so much scope for the imagination in that concept." This is a seriously profound thought and changes how I look at life and choices.
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2000/04/we-are-creators?lang=eng

The Hebrew word for create, bara, in the Genesis story of the creation, means  to prepare, form, fashion, organize! So, when I plan my life, I am being a creator, tapping into my creative abilities. Those abilities are part of my spiritual DNA. So, yes, when I am organizing, I am being creative and I am making space and time for my creativity, by establishing a default rhythms in my home.