Winter Nature Study and Snowflake Book Suggestions

I wanted to share with you all some book suggestions that I haverecently listed on my blog sidebar. Many people may have trouble with nature study in winter, and these books may help you, because they focus on nature study in winter:

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If you want to focus on snowflakes, here are some books you may wish to check out:

• You may also want to check out my video here from last winter about how to catch a snowflake.
• You may also want to make your own paper snowflakes. There are some instructions here.
• There are some templates you can print to cut very fancy snowflakes here.
• Here is a fun website where you can make your own snowflake: Make-a-Flake

Hope you enjoy these books and links. If you have any more winter nature study or snowflake ideas, feel free to leave them in the comments.

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And I still have some Hearts and Trees Winter 2008 Kits, so be sure to check them out, if you haven't already.

Jan Brett Links 2

There are tons of games and printables available on Jan Brett's website.

Here are a few more things you might want to check out:

• Matching Animal Game
• Matching Numbers Game
• Print Your Own Calendar
• Design Your Own Gingerbread- Online
• Tons of Coloring Pages
• How to Draw a Hedgehog
  

I will be shipping all pre-orders of my Winter Kit on Friday, so be sure to get your order in by Thursday.

Jan Brett Links

Here are some links of activities you might enjoy based on Jan Brett's book The Mitten. My Winter Kit was mostly inspired by this book.

• Design Your Own Mitten- Coloring Page
• Bookmarks to Print
• Put the Animals in the Mitten-Activity Sheet
• Animal Masks from The Mitten

I hope you enjoy checking out these links. I will be back tomorrow with some more Jan Brett inspired ideas.

I will be shipping all pre-orders of my Winter Kit on Friday, so be sure to get your order in today if you are intersted. :)

And the winner is....

The winner of my little conest is Phyllis from bergblog! Thanks to everyone who participated and shared about my Winter Kit and blog on their blog. I wish I could send everyone a goodie bag.

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This coming week is going to be Jan Brett week on my blog, so be sure to check back for lots of links and fun things to do. I totally forgot to mention that what inspired most of the projects for my Winter Kit was the book The Mitten by Jan Brett. That's why I decided to focus on mammals and why we are sewing mittens. And the artwork in the book is very Pennsylvania Dutch inspired, so I wanted to include that in the kit too.

I will be shipping all pre-orders of my Winter Kit on Friday, so be sure to get your order in today if you are intersted. :)

Hearts and Trees Contest

In an effort to advertise my Winter 2008 Kit, I am hosting a little contest. To enter this contest you will just need to either use my button in your blog sidebar linking to my blog (the html code is in the scroll box below) or post about my kit or my blog with a link to my blog on your blog. You will then need to leave a comment on this post with a link to your blog.

I have a whole bag of handicraft and art goodies to send along to the winner.

The goodies include:

• 1 watercolor set
• a stack of 1/2 sheets of watercolor paper
• some plastic canvas and a plastic canvas needle
• some tissue paper sheets
• three sheets of felt (0range, yellow and pink)
• and whatever else I can find to throw in. :)

You can copy the html code in the box below to paste into your sidebar. I am not too technical, but if you have any trouble, I may be able to help you out. Thanks!

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The contest will end Friday (the 12th). I will pick a random winner on Saturday the 13th. Thanks to all who participate! And you can find out more about my winter kit here. They are going fast, so purchase yours soon!