Purchase P.L.A.Y. Nature Alliteration Adventure Guide Books
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A October treasure quest for you & your curious Capkin
is to search in nature for . . .
“Wing-like + Weathered + Wafer-like”
Bonus – Woodsy + not White
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My curious Capkin & I found this treasure to match the description.
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What other natural treasures did you find in your P.L.A.Y. today? 🙂
Draw, write, color, and creatively capture your discoveries
on the pages of your P.L.A.Y. Nature Adventure book!
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A September treasure quest for you & your curious Capkin
is to search in nature for. . .
“White Fuzzy Fun Walking”
Bonus – Wandering in the Woods
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My curious Capkin & I found this treasure to match the description.
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What other natural treasures did you find in your P.L.A.Y. today? 🙂
Draw, write, color, and creatively capture your discoveries
on the pages of your Nature Adventure book!
Purchase Here – P.L.A.Y. Nature Alliteration Adventure Guide Books
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A September treasure quest for you & your curious Capkin
is to search in nature for . . .
” Petaled + Partial + Pie-sliced “
Bonus – Orange-ish
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My curious Capkin & I found this treasure to match the description.
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What other natural treasures did you find in your P.L.A.Y. today? 🙂
Draw, write, color, and creatively capture your discoveries
on the pages of your Nature Adventure book!
This is the book you need to jump into your P.L.A.Y.-filled Fall Season!
Nature Alliteration Adventures: The Fall Guide
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This is sample blank page #4 from the Fall Adventures BEFORE the P.L.A.Y. begins . . .
AFTER taking these 3 “P” words out in nature and searching about with my Capkin for this description this is the colored pencil drawing of what we found to match:
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BELOW is the sample matching photo post put on P.L.A.Y. for you, your kiddos, your family, and everyone to follow along.
A September treasure quest for you & your curious Capkin
is to search in nature for . . .
Puffy +Plain + Pedestal
Bonus Color Challenge – Yellow
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My curious Capkin & I found this treasure to match the description.
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*Remember we can all find different solutions to match the alliteration phrase on our own adventures out in nature. This photo shows today I found a “puffy plain pedestal mushroom”, perhaps you found a flower or a tree or ??? that matches for you.
Draw, write, color, and creatively capture your discoveries
on the pages of your Nature Adventure book!
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An August treasure quest for you & your curious Capkin
is to search in nature for . . .
“Ode to the Odd Ovals Outdoors”
Bonus – Fun Find in the Forest
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My curious Capkin & I found this treasure to match the description.
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What other natural treasures did you find in your P.L.A.Y. today? 🙂
Draw, write, color, and creatively capture your discoveries
on the pages of your P.L.A.Y. Nature Adventure book!
We’ve had quite the odd summer so far here in New England. It has been either full on hot sunshine or full on rain for most of this season thus far. There hasn’t been too many days with clear and moderate temperatures.
We began with super dry conditions and wondering if we would ever get the chance to enjoy building a campfire in the fire pit out in our community meadow. The garden seedlings needed constant tending to with frequent watering and folks adding mulch or wood chips to help retain the moisture.
There were very hot days that clustered together to make a heat wave more than once in both May and June.
Then the rains came in and everyone gave thanks for the assistance in watering the gardens and had much gratitude for the green lushness that naturally arrived too.
And now we are in the opposite situation where we are having day, after day, after day of rain. And the rain comes in quantities that have been raising the water levels in both the brook (seen above/below) and in the river adjoining our community property. A gain of 7 inches of rain was recorded in our personal gauge in just the span of a few days.
The gardens are now well watered naturally and the hoses sit all curled up wondering when they will ever get used again. The forest has mushrooms that are not typically seen at this time of year and the red efts have been seen in larger numbers on top of the leaf litter on my walks in the woods.
My daughters 6 year old goats, who are not known to thrive in rainy conditions due to hoof rot and other ailments, are tired of being penned up at the barn and eagerly await a dry day to be back out in the meadow munching on all that greenery that has been growing “like weeds”!
And that fire pit, well it has been mowed during one brief reprieve in the rain and now it sits all soggy waiting to dry out just enough to welcome our community to circle up and sit on the benches and share stories, roast marshmallows, and return to summer P.L.A.Y. time traditions.
May you and yours be taking the moment to soak in both the sun and the rain and being present for all the P.L.A.Y. nature moments in your neck-of-the-woods this summer.
Who was on this tree?
It sure is a mystery to me!
A wacky woodpecker who lost his way?
An avian artist looking to play?
Or perhaps a bug gone berserk?
Who do you think created this work?
For a few years now I’ve visited this same river location on our community property and witnessed the before and after tadpole populations and patterns. Typically I will see large pockets of tadpole groupings at specific spots when they all hatch out of the egg casings. Then over time they begin to redistribute and spread out just a bit along the river’s edge or they get caught up in a current and are brought down river just a little ways if there is a gentle rain and slight rising in the water levels.
What I hadn’t done yet was actually go down to the river during a full on storm to observe first hand what was happing at the river’s edge. Recently I had the opportunity to do just this as fate would have it Mother Nature provided a gap in a series of storms so I could skip the torrential down pours or threat of thunder and lightening.
What I discovered was that most of the tadpoles actually stay in place! Serendipitous!
The water levels rise and the river turns into rapids, however the river also widens and the tadpoles end up gently rocking in the river grasses where the water remains only a few inches deep. I’m sure there are some that get redistributed down stream as the populations in pockets do seem to alter after a storm. However, not as many as I had originally thought.
I was so relieved to discover that not all the tadpoles were being tossed about every time a storm came through and now I have this sweet image in my mind of them being gently rocked amongst the river grasses and weathering the storm together.
It is fascinating to me that after five summers of observing this process of the life cycle of the American Toad, here in my neck-of-the-woods, that there is still so much to learn and observe. Exciting and grounding at the same time.
Truly every season simply has so many opportunities to put P.L.A.Y. into action, connecting to nature and my own curious nature too. Love it!
I hope you are taking a moment to make your own P.L.A.Y. discoveries and tap into your curious nature too. Perhaps it is a bird’s nest in a bush outside your front door, walking in a local garden, hiking the same trail at a nearby nature center, or watching cloud and weather patterns right out your window.
Wishing you and yours many P.L.A.Y. days throughout this summer and the seasons ahead!
