Summer Wonders Pack: 12 Nature Field Guides

Fireflies blinking at dusk, sea stars in tide pools, crickets singing the summer song. Long days outside are full of questions, and this pack helps you answer them.

Summer Wonders is a whole season of nature study for curious kids ages 3-7: 12 printable field guides, one for each week, 128 pages in total. No prep, no special supplies. Print a guide (or open it on a tablet) and you're ready for ten minutes of wonder.

Inside every guide:

• A short read for grown-ups, so you can answer every "why?"
• Five read-aloud whoa facts
• Questions for ages 3-4 and 5-7
• A hands-on activity with a simple supply list
• A tick-it-off walk for a pond, a beach or the backyard
• A colouring page drawn for that wonder
• Counting and tracing practice
• A field notes page to draw or dictate what they noticed
• Two picture books to look for at the library
• Sources, so you can read more

Bonus pages: a whole-season scavenger hunt, a weather log, a walk journal and an Official Summer Naturalist certificate.

The 12 guides: Fireflies, Ladybugs, Ants, Dragonflies, Crickets, Bats, Turtles, Tide pools, Sunflowers, Clouds, Shadows & the sun, Spiders & webs

A few of the facts kids love:

• Fireflies are beetles, not flies.
• Baby dragonflies live underwater, sometimes for years.
• A sunflower is hundreds of tiny flowers packed together.

Every fact is checked against government science sources like NOAA, NASA, the USDA Forest Service and the National Park Service, and listed on the last page of each guide.

You'll get: one complete PDF (all 12 guides) plus a zip with each guide as its own PDF. Instant download. Printable on US Letter, at home or at the library.

Made by Kyllian + Alex of @lifealongthewayco, and tested by our 4-year-old in our camper.

For personal, family and single-classroom use.