Nature Badge

🌳 Nature Badge – Badge Worthy Learning

Slow down, explore the wild, and learn from the world around you.

The Nature Badge invites homeschoolers to get outside, breathe deep, and learn from the land. Whether it's identifying trees, exploring local trails, or quietly journaling by a stream, this badge honors the calm, curiosity, and joy that nature brings into learning.

Perfect for jackets, backpacks, badge banners, or nature journals—this badge helps families connect learning to the living world.

🍃 How to Earn the Nature Badge

🌲 Activity Ideas:

• Identify 5 local trees, herbs, or wildflowers using a guidebook or app
• Go on a nature scavenger hunt – find items like a feather, acorn, mushroom, moss, or animal track
• Try forest bathing—a slow, silent walk in the woods focused on mindfulness
• Create bark or leaf rubbings and display them in a notebook
• Make a DIY nature journal and track changes in the weather, moon phases, or migrating birds
• Collect and label rocks or leaves (respectfully—leave nature intact)
• Learn how to use a field guide or app like Seek by iNaturalist
• Build a small bug hotel or bird feeder and observe daily visitors

📚 Curriculum Connections & Outdoor Studies

🌿 Nature-Based Units & Activities

• 🦋 Nature Homeschool Study
  Acomprehensive index includes all the homeschool nature study curriculum, eBooks, and courses included in our Homeschool Nature Study Clubhouse membership.
• 🐾 Exploring Nature with Children – Year-Long Curriculum
  Weekly nature walk themes with poetry, artist study, and journaling prompts.
• 📖 Wild Math: Outdoor Math Activities
  Use sticks, rocks, shadows, and more to explore real-world math in nature for several grade levels
• 🎒 Charlotte Mason Nature Study Handbook
  A gentle, open-ended approach to observation and field sketching.

📚 Books, Printables & Apps

• 📚 “Nature Anatomy” by Julia Rothman
  A gorgeously illustrated book on everything from moss to mountains.
• 📱 Seek by iNaturalist App (Free)
  Take a photo, get a plant/animal ID instantly—great for all ages.
• 🖨️ Nature Scavenger Hunt Printables (Free)
  Fun, themed scavenger hunts for woods, beach, backyard, or trail.
• 🎥 National Geographic Kids Nature Videos
  Short, engaging videos about ecosystems, animals, and natural wonders.

✏️ Creative Extensions

• Make a nature collage or mandala using fallen leaves, petals, and sticks
• Press leaves or flowers between book pages and label them
• Learn the basics of herbalism—try a calming tea like lemon balm or chamomile
• Keep a moon journal for a month—sketch or photograph its phases
• Create a nature-inspired poem, prayer, or thank-you letter to the earth
• Build a stick raft and float it in a stream

🎒 Display Your Achievement

Once your explorer has observed, identified, and connected with nature, display their badge:

• On a nature journal or sketchbook cover
• On a hiking backpack or walking stick wrap
• On a badge banner or memory quilt
• In your homeschool “Earth Science” portfolio

✨ About Badge Worthy Learning

We believe nature is one of the best classrooms—and wonder is one of the best teachers. Our badges help homeschoolers slow down, look closely, and celebrate growth rooted in real experiences.