We follow a curriculum from @raisinglittleshoots called Exploring Nature with Children. Each week of the year has a different, seasonal theme to base your nature study around. If you’d like to discover more search the hashtags #ENWC and #ExploringNatureWithChildren.
- This blog post gives you some resources you may find helpful for each week in February as well as journal pages to complete.
- As always these posts get added to each year as we go through the cycle of the curriculum again.
- Join the Facebook group to be updated when new resources appear.
- If you are on Pinterest you might like to check out my ENWC Pinterest board here.
February 2026 Exploring Nature with Children Dates
You can find the full calendar of dates for the year here. Under the ENWC dates you will find other dates you may wish to consider as they fall into these weeks including awareness days and religious festivals/ dates.
- Beginning of February
- Imbolc (1st Feb)
- World Hijab Day (1st Feb)
- 2-8th February – Candlemas Study Week
- Candlemas (2nd Feb)
- World Wetlands Day (2nd)
- National Hedgehog Day (2nd Feb)
- Tu BiShvat (Jewish tree-planting festival) – often marked 1–2 Feb on some calendars
- Children’s Mental Health Week
- World Read Aloud Day (First Wed in Feb – 4th Feb 2026)
- World Cancer Day (4th Feb)
- Rosa Parks Day (4th Feb)
- World Read Aloud Day (5th Feb)
- Time to Talk Day (5th Feb)
- NSPCC Number Day (First Friday in Feb – 6th Feb)
- Charles Dickens’ Birthday (7th Feb)
- Invictus Games – not until 2027
- 9-15th February – Earth Worm Week
- World Pulses Day (10th Feb)
- Safer Internet Day (10th Feb)
- International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11th Feb)
- Valentines’ Day (14th Feb)
- World Bonobo Day (14th Feb)
- National Nest Box (14th – 21st Feb)
- Real Bread Week (15-23rd Feb)
- Parinirvana Day (15th Feb)
- Maha Shivaratri (15-16th Feb)
- World Hippopotamus Day (15th Feb)
- World Whale Day (3rd Sunday in Feb – 15th Feb 2026)
- 16-22nd February – Evergreen Week
- Random Acts of Kindness Day (17th Feb)
- Lunar New Year/ Chinese New Year (17th Feb 2026)
- Shrove Tuesday (17th Feb 2026)
- Ramadan (17th Feb – 18th Mar 2025 varies)
- National Love Your Pet Day (20th Feb)
- World Pangolin Day (third Sunday in Feb – 21st Feb 2026)
- International Mother Language Day (21st Feb)
- World Thinking Day (22nd Feb)
- World Seal Day (22nd Feb)
- 23-1st March – Field Trip Week
- Eating Disorder Awareness Week
- Tell a Fairy Tale Day (26th Feb)
- International Polar Bear Day (27th Feb)
- International Lego Day (28th Feb)
- Rare Disease Day (28th Feb)
Navigate February Ideas & Resources
Beginning of February
World Hijab Day
You can find a suite of resources to support learning on this date here.
Exploring Nature with Children Candlemas Week
Helpful Blog Posts
Our Week – Waldorf Rhythm – Candlemas and More
National Hedgehog Day
Check out this blog post for resources for National Hedgehog Day. It’s filled with resource links, crafts perfect for this special day and free Montessori style three part ID cards.
World Wetlands Day
Here’s the World Wetlands Day website with a host of resources to mark the day and beyond. You’ll also find pond study resources from me below:
Exploring Nature with Children Earth Worm Week
Helpful Blog Posts
Great Books
Valentines’ Day
Books
Find Valentine book ideas in this issue of Bookworm Buzz here.
Crafts
Fancy making yourself a little pompom Love Monster?! These are a great little project for the cold Winter months sure to leave you all warm and fuzzy!
World Pangolin Day
Find out more about Pangolin’s and the awareness day in this blog post.
Exploring Nature with Children Evergreen Week
Helpful Blog Posts
Resources
Evergreen Trees
Evergreen trees three part Montessori inspired cards.
Great Books
Lunar New Year/ Chinese New Year 2026
For inspiration of understanding and celebrating Lunar New Year head to this post. In this post you’ll find a story in both written (dyslexia friendly font available) and audio. You can find out how to make a simple lantern here. Plus have a go at my free iris folding lantern pattern
Random Acts of Kindness Day
Helpful Books
- 8 Books of Kindness and Friendship for Friendship Month
- Conker and the Monkey Trap by Hannah Peckham
- When I Smile: A Book of Kindness
- Our Kind Rhythm – Waldorf Inspired
- Stay for Dinner by Sandhya Parappukkaran and Michelle Pereira
- 101 Dishes for the Emperor – Soni Zuberi Shah & Fatima Zahra Hassan
- Gaspard’s Christmas by Zeb Soanes and James Mayhew
Exploring Nature with Children Field Trip Week
No plans yet – watch this space!
More Nature Resources for February
Early Spring Flowers
Early Spring three part Montessori inspired cards
Story – Flossie and the Snowdrop Fairy
A little seasonal story to get you ready for Spring. The story of the Snowdrop fairy waking up the flowers. You can read the name of your child instead of Flossie when reading the story to personalise.
An audio version of the story – if you can cope with my accent is below!
Winter Montessori ID Cards
Winter flash cards. Can be used in so many ways, introducing new vocabulary, print two copies and make into Montessori three part cards.
Winter watercolour resources from Becca at Fiddlesticks Education. Becca also provides the resources in a range of different languages.
I’m so tempted to start a Wheel of the Year. This pack is from Fiddlesticks and I’ve also seen people do beautiful embroidered phenology wheels. Let me know in the comments if you do one and what you do.
Exploring Nature with Children through the Year
You can find more resources for different weeks in the ENWC curriculum by clicking on the links below:
