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 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 2025 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)
- Candlemas falls into February on the 2nd – this is included in January study week in 2025 so I’ve added it to both January and February posts
- National Hedgehog Day (2nd)
- 3-9th February – Winter Pond Study Week
- Children’s Mental Health Week
- World Cancer Day (4th Feb)
- Rosa Parks Day (4th Feb)
- World Read Aloud Day (5th Feb)
- Time to Talk Day (6th Feb)
- NSPCC Number Day (7th Feb)
- Charles Dickens’ Birthday (7th Feb)
- Invictus Games (8-16th Feb)
- 10-16th February – Earth Worm Week
- International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- Tu Bishvat (12-23th Feb 2025)
- Shangyuan Festival/ Lantern Festival (12th Feb 2025)
- 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)
- World Pangolin Day (3rd Saturday in Feb – 15th Feb 2025)
- World Hippopotamus Day (15th Feb)
- World Whale Day (3rd Sunday in Feb – 16th Feb 2025)
- 17-23rd February – Evergreen Week
- Random Acts of Kindness Day (17th Feb)
- Shrove Tuesday/ Pancake Day (18th Feb)
- National Love Your Pet Day (20th Feb)
- International Mother Language Day (21st Feb)
- World Thinking Day (22nd Feb)
- 24-2nd March – Field Trip Week
- Eating Disorder Awareness Week
- Maha Shivratri (26-27th Feb 2025)
- International Polar Bear Day (27th Feb)
- Ramadan (28th Feb – 30th Mar 2025)
Navigate February Ideas & Resources
Beginning of February
Candlemas Helpful Blog Posts
World Hijab Day
You can find a suite of resources to support learning on this date here.
Exploring Nature with Children Winter Pond Study Week
This topic is often in January but it’s 3-9th February this year. I’ve left it in January as well in case anyone is still planning on doing pond study this week.
Pond Spotters
Fiddlesticks Pond Nature Pack is one we’ve enjoyed using for a few years, We’ve used it for each of the ENWC pond weeks in the year.
Great Books
Helpful Blog Posts
- Our Week – Waldorf Rhythm – Pond Life
- Daisy and Jack’s Perfect Pond by Rachel Lawston and Beatriz Castro
Exploring Nature with Children Earth Worm Week
Helpful Blog Posts
Great Books
World Pangolin Day
Find out more about Pangolin’s and the awareness day in this blog post.
Lantern Festival
A couple of creative projects for lantern festival. The one is a simple design that would be ideal for children of any age. The other, iris folding pattern, would be more suited to older teens and adults.
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!
Exploring Nature with Children Evergreen Week
Helpful Blog Posts
Resources
Evergreen Trees
Evergreen trees three part Montessori inspired cards.
Great Books
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
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:
- January
- February
- March – coming February 2025
- April – coming March 2025
- May – coming April 2025
- June – coming May 2025
- July – coming June 2025
- August – coming July 2025
- September
- October
- November
- December
