As Joseph Cornell’s classic book reached its 20th anniversary, Cornell drew upon a wealth of experience in nature education to significantly revise and expand his book. New nature games—favorites from the field – and Cornell’s typically insightful commentary makes the second edition of this special classic even more valuable to nature lovers world-wide. The Sharing Nature movement that Cornell pioneered has now expanded to countries all over the globe. Recommended by Boy Scouts of America, American Camping Association, National Audubon Society and many others.
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This really helped me in getting my grand-children interested in nature. They were always inquisitive, but I didn't know how to incorporate their questions with actually getting into nature walks and talks. Great book!! -- Sharing Nature with Children
I read this book with great pleasure. It gives amazing ideas on how to make your child discover nature with all his senses and get a very personal relationship with nature.
The activities are well introduced, with various criteria to help you find what you need quickly but the core of the book is sharing: it's really about feeling nature and letting one discover partly by himself what nature means. It views nature as non threatening which is rare now to us purely urban breeds.
If you want a guide to help your kids discover nature in its depth and finding tremendous excitement at it too, then this is it. -- so many extraordinari ideas... I can't find the marvellous place to do it though
A great resource filled with games, activities and how to share nature with children. A must have for all outdoor environmental educators. Great for parents, teachers, and children alike. -- Wonderful resource!
This book is fabulous. My friend and I had our combined 4 kids up in a cabin for a week and I brought this book for activities we could do. I knew I didn't need to pack any "supplies" because of the wonderfully simple nature of the activities. I was amazed that in doing "meet a tree" where each child is blindfolded, is led to a tree, explores that tree, and then tries to find it again with the blindfold off, that the kids were overwhelmingly successful at locating their special tree amongst many others, touching and exploring each tree thoughtfully along the way.
Another favorite was the un-nature trail in which you hide man made objects along a trail to see how many the kids can locate. Even the kids who only found 1 out of 15 items(yes it's true) were thrilled to go back over the trail with me as I pointed out the glasses, the wooden spoon etc.
I would prepare more carefully for the "blind trail" than I did - setting out rules and perimeters before hand. I had two blindfolded, crying children who had accidentally been walked into a tree or led off of a fallen log by their inexperienced partner.
This book is one of my all time favorites despite any mishaps. I can't think of a better book to help you get children excited about being outside with the birds and the trees. -- inspiring, simple activities you can do with your kids
This book is filled wth great ideas on giving children memorable experiences in Nature. I myself am a nature docent and I know from experience that if you try to lecture to children out in nature you just have a lot of kids not listening. If you give them an experience you will give them something that they will always refer back to for the rest of their life. I highly recommend the methods used in this book. -- Excellent resource
