Choose a safe, accessible woodland trail with a variety of natural features, such as streams, varied plants or wildlife.
Create a simple log template with space for the date, location, weather conditions and the phenological events you observe, such as leaves changing colour, animals behaving differently, or flowers blo
Choose a natural object, such as a branch with buds and smaller twigs, and draw it at roughly its real size in your journal, capturing its main structure.
Give each learner a clipboard and journaling materials.
Spend time observing something in nature, such as a plant, animal or weather pattern.
Find out what time the sun will set today.
Choose an interesting natural object, such as a plant, animal, rock or weather feature.
Choose a natural setting and spend some quiet time simply observing, focusing on small details, sounds, colours and textures.
Choose a natural subject, such as a twig, a feather, a shell or a tree.
Before a longer drawing session, spend five minutes warming up by drawing simple objects.