Phenology pdf

For my example below, I chose to just focus on some of my favorite things for each month along with important events down at the middle section. Lynn offers a wonderful and inexpensive ebook that goes through the basics.

I highly recommend this book as well as her other book, Exploring Nature with Children which is a year-long full curriculum and is seriously so great. Partners in Place LLC also has a beautiful page full of examples of different Phenology Wheels to inspire you as well.

You can find it here. You can check it out here. I hope it will inspire you to make one for yourself. You can put this in your nature journal, bullet journal, art journal…wherever.

For this project, I used all of my colors in the 12 half pan palette. Just keep your color palette limited and it will turn out great! If you are already a member of the Lily and Thistle tribe, you can access the pattern in the Resource Library with your password found in every email I send to you HERE.

I like to trace everything with my trusty blue pencil first and then come in with a black pen after. There are so many ways to trace your pattern.

You can use graphite paper, a window, an iPad or you can even purchase an inexpensive light board. I did a post all about tracing HERE. I recorded my process below. I hope this very amateur video is helpful for you. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. I hope this will be a fun little project for you and your kids to do together throughout the year. Please let me know if you have any questions.

I am so happy to help. Sometimes life is just plain old BUSY. A phenology wheel is simply a visual representation of what is happening month by month, in the natural world around you. The Raising Little Shoots Phenology Wheel Guide is a 33 page, photograph heavy guide, to help you step by step, in setting up your own phenology wheel for the year.

Keeping a phenology wheel is a smashing way for you and your family to connect both with nature and each other. Everyone can work together, but at their own level. At the end of the year you will have a superb record of the natural world in your own locality. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.