Loaded with hands-on, kid-friendly projects,
Natural History Collector: Hunt, Discover, Learn!
will teach budding nature collectors techniques for cleaning, caring for, and displaying discovered treasures.
Coming home from the beach or a walk in the woods with a fine collection of rocks, shells, pine cones, and seed pods is easy. The trick is knowing
what to do with them
once you get them back to your room. The real fun comes from identifying, preserving, and displaying your treasures!
is full of
hands-on, kid-friendly projects
for the budding naturalist. The opening chapter introduces kids to different ways of creating their personal field guides for keeping track of what they see, when and where they see it, and what makes it interesting. They’ll move on to techniques for
cleaning and caring
for
treasures, such as
drying flowers
,
pressing leaves
, and
desalinizing rocks and shells
.
The book’s drawings and photographs will help kids discover
what to look for
when they examine feathers, seeds, and minerals (and recognize the difference between sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic).
Extra projects
focus on display; making shadow boxes, creating collectors’ cases from egg cartons and candy boxes, labeling, hanging, and mounting collections.