Finally Fall ~ Falling For November! Your Free Nature Journal Printable
As I mentioned last month, to celebrate the release of my third picture book, A Year With Mama Earth, I’m creating a nature journal inspired by Rebecca Green’s illustrations and the book’s lyrical text.
Find November’s printable nature journal pages below!
November Nature Journal
Where I live, November winds blow the last of autumn's leaves across the lawn and children check the windows each morning, hoping to see the season’s first snow. Nature walks involve bundling up, and almost always end with hot coco!
This month you’ll be observing, collecting, and creating. I hope you enjoy your exploration this month!
If you haven’t yet started My Year Nature Journal, I strongly recommend card stock for the cover and something heavier than standard copy paper for the internal pages (28lb minimum). Either three-hole-punch and place in a binder or hole punch and hold together with rings. You’ll be adding more pages each month, so be sure your binder has plenty of room! 2” should suffice.
A Walk Through November’s Lessons:
Be sure to add your Month Sticker! Download the printable file at the end of this post. I’ve included a place on every month’s first page for students to draw a seasonal self-portrait. This month we’ll dress up for Thanksgiving dinner, or dress down. What will you wear to your fall celebrations?
An informative overview of Thanksgiving from traditions to history!
For Toddlers: what’s the one thing everyone needs after a turkey dinner? No, not a nap, a dance party!
All About Clouds:
Along with your Nature Journal pages, you might enjoy these activities and printables.
Cloud crafts abound, and these window-hanging rain clouds are cute, easy, and fun.
For a more involved display-worth art project, try this Crayon Drip Raincloud project. Creative and beautiful.
Enjoy the videos on clouds below!
Go deeper (or higher?) into clouds!
A cute song about clouds and imagination.
Nature Mandala:
In Michigan where I live nature’s beauty will soon be covered with snow (in some areas it already is!). While snow has its own beauty, now is the time to collect all those pinecones and leaves and acorns. But what to do with them? Make a nature mandala! The videos below will show you how.
What is a mandala and where else do we see it in nature? This post explains everything you’d need to know about mandalas.
Inspiration for your own nature mandalas.
If you can get beyond the questionable use of green screen, your toddler will love this forest exploration!
Preparing for Winter:
Animals prepare for winter in so many ways. Some migrate, some hibernate, and still others adapt in various ways. Learn more about seasonal adaptations in this video reading of Henrietta Bancroft’s book, Animals in Winter:
Enjoy exploring November more with the recommendations below (affiliate links).
Clouds + Slime = Cloud slime!
Animals for creative play.
Reenact Thanksgiving!
Writer’s Corner:
Watch this video on Friendly Letters and another showing a fun way to have a letter and envelope in one!
So that’s it! Sit back, download, print. Then *get outside* to enjoy November while you can! On those rainy days, check out the videos above. And be sure to subscribe so you’ll be first to know when next month’s pages are available.
Update: All the month’s are done! You can still download November below, along with other Nature Journal freebies!
Subscribe below for all the Nature Journal printables!
To preview any of these items, visit my Teachers Pay Teachers store. You’ll be able to see several pages of each download.
Do you plan to get outside this fall? I’d love to see some of your finished journal pages! Please mention me @thisjoyfulmess on IG and use the hashtag #myyearnaturejournal!
My Year Nature Journal gives you 12 full months of nature journal activity and free-creation pages to support your nature/outdoor education. The journal is perfect for fans of Charlotte Mason, Montessori, kinesthetic and hands-on learning, or to simply enhance your enjoyment of the outdoors.