Images of a Half-Sized Nature Journal
The binder used here is a heavy duty half-sized 3-ring binder that has plastic sleeves on the outside for inserts.
The insert is a drawing that I made of the children's "squash people." The children drew a family member's face on each of the squash. I think one of them is their dad.
This journal is a half-sized journal that uses 8" x 5.5" paper.
You can see the many tabs on the divider pages. Some of the divider pages were cut-to-fit from full-sized dividers and some were cut from construction paper.
Some of the tabs do not stick out as far as other tabs. Tabs that stick out are the main categories and the shorter tabs are the subcategories.
NEXT: Nature Journal Tabs
Donna Young
September 29th, 2008
Notes
The half sized paper is from regular printer paper that is cut in half, either before printing or after printing. When to cute the paper depends on the printable.
Ideas
Either grow a winter squash plant of some sort or buy them from a market or your grocery store during late summer/early autumn. Get the small type, (be sure it is a type of winter squash) either like the ones pictured on the nature book cover or the small pumpkins. Allow your children to either paint things on their winter squash or draw with markers. The little pumpkins will eventually dry and shrivel. My son has one in his junk drawer that he painted in 1993 or 1994.
