toddler & PreK

NATURE JOURNAL

FREE PRINTABLE NATURE STUDY JOURNAL

Thank you for downloading the Teeny Tiny & Itty Bitty Nature Journals!!

Teeny Tiny Nature Journal Itty Bitty Nature Journal

Is perfectly sized and designed specifically for Is created with toddlers in mind. What could be more
Preschoolers. Bright illustrations pair with text, with fun (and educational) than letting your tiny tot join
lots of space for little ones to draw and create! The the “big kids" with their very own nature journal! It’s
journal can be printed multiple times and used small, full of space for creativity, and super easy to
throughout the school year, during any season. print and assemble. Topics introduced include:
Children will learn all about:
✴Observing Weather
✴Observing Weather ✴Bugs
✴Seasons ✴Leaves
✴Animal Tracks ✴Animal Tracks
✴Dressing for the Weather ✴Counting
✴Colors ✴Similes!
✴Similes!
How to Assemble
For best results, print on heavy paper, double sided,
with pages bound on the short side (click through
The picture book, A Year With your printer settings to find this).
Mama Earth, can be found on For the Teeny Tiny Nature Journal, simply fold in half,
Amazon, in bookstores, or stack pages, and staple or bind with a hole punch
find links to independent and string. (This video shows how to bind with an awl
retailers on my site. Published and string, but you can use a hole punch, making two
by Eerdmans Books for Young holes, instead.)
Readers.
For the Itty Bitty Nature Journal, cut along the dotted
line, fold, and assemble according to the page
numbers. Then staple or bind with string.

The Fine Print

This packet is free to you for unlimited personal/classroom use. You can print these worksheets as often as you like!
You may NOT republish, repackage, resell, redistribute any of these pages in any way without my permission.
You MAY link to the product download page (not the file itself, please). Please contact me with any questions: rebeccawritesbooks@gmail.com
©Rebecca Grabill 2019
 Find inspiration
in the picture book A Year With
Mama Earth, published by
Eerdmans Books for Young
Readers, and discover many
more free printables at
rebeccagrabill.com!
teeny tiny
Name:
Mama Earth sighs and September frost
crackles over bowing stalks of corn… Me!
—From A Year With Mama Earth

Fill in the blanks…

I am cozy as:

I am loud as:

I am silly as:

I am quiet as:

I am happy as:
NATURE JOURNAL
Back
I’M GOING ON A NATURE WALK! WEATHER
Today’s weather is…
Place:

Date:
Sunny Partly Sunny

Season:

Cloudy Rainy
Winter Spring

Summer Fall
Snowy Stormy
DRESSING FOR THE WEATHER
Are you…
SCAVENGER HUNT
Find something of each color!

Blue Purple

Hot Cold
What will you need today?

Red Orange

Yellow Green

This is Me Outside!
MY FAVORITE
What did you like best today?
ANIMAL TRACKS
Find & Draw Tracks!

Tracks I Found!

My animal might be a: _______________________

 Find inspiration
in the picture book A Year With
Mama Earth, published by
Eerdmans Books for Young
Readers, and discover many
more free printables at
rebeccagrabill.com!
itty bitty
Name:
Fill in the blanks…
I am cozy as:
I am happy as:
I am silly as:
Back
NATURE JOURNAL
MY BUG
Draw an insect!
The weather is…

Sunny Partly Sunny Cloudy

Rainy Snowy Stormy

5 2
I’M GOING ON A NATURE WALK!
Place:
ANIMAL TRACKS
Draw tracks!

Date/Season:

1 6

MY LEAF
Draw a leaf or make a rubbing!
I SPY
Nature Number Scavenger Hunt!

1 Mammal 2 Insects 3 Birds

4 Trees 5 Leaves 6 Flowers

3 4
 Thank you for downloading the Teeny Tiny Nature Journal!!
Find more creative crafts and activities at rebeccagrabill.com! Plus, subscribe to my
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inspiration!
I love this! Where can I find What else do you offer?
more of your books? I’ve created oodles of resources to help you use
literature in the classroom!
I’m so glad you asked! I have all my books as well
as printables and activities galore listed on my 
 ✴Printable Packs
website, https://www.rebeccagrabill.com. ✴Coloring Pages
✴Crafts and Games
Three of my books are Violet and the Woof
✴Educational Resources
(HarperCollins), A Year With Mama Earth
(Eerdmans), and Halloween Good Night ✴Lesson Plans
(Atheneum). But wait, there’s more! I do school visits and, for
those schools far from me, Skype visits!

One last thing…

Don’t
I would LOVE to hear from you! Please send
forget to
order my stories, artwork, letters to:
books!! rebeccawritesbooks@gmail.com

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