A great book to gift to your kids and make them to grow interest in collections......

My 3 year old son is showing interest in collecting rocks and is growing more curious about the natural world around home, so this book really helped me with ideas for him and he loved looking at the pictures with me. This will be a good resource for when he’s older as well.

I did receive an ebook from NetGalley which does not change my review. :)

Loved this! This is excellent for the little budding natural history fiend in your life. I would have absolutely loved this as a kid collecting anything weird I could find out in nature.

This is definitely for kids, if you are looking for advanced techniques this is not your book. This is pretty comprehensive though including instructions for things like cleaning fossils and pinning insects and even pressing flowers. There are some fun crafty instructions as well for kid nature projects. Some of these you will have already seen before if you've spent any time planning nature activities for kids, however, there were a couple new ones. This book doesn't keep it too simple either which I really appreciated.

The only thing that bugged (catch that?.. lol) me was when the insect discussion was going on and cicadas were stated not to have a larval/pupal stage which is technically true, but, confusing to those of us accustomed to gathering the cast skins. Yeah, turns out that's from a nymph. What's the difference? The nymph does not pupate and primarily differs from the adult in just that it doesn't have wings or functional reproductive organs. So, that was cool, obviously author was correct and I got the opportunity to correct myself.. lol I've been guilty of using larva and nymph interchangeably. Now I get it.

This is a fun book and I will likely pick it up for my 7 year old. We already work at micro fossils and it would be fun to add more to our activities.

Practical and useful activities that can be used with children from 5-11 years old. The book provides tools and resources to recreate or create activities for children. This activities can be used for summer camp, elementary school or home school.