Exploring Nature with Children in October Resources

We follow a curriculum from Raising Little Shoots called Exploring Nature with Children. Each week of the year has a different, seasonal theme to base your nature study around.

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This blog post gives you some resources you may find helpful for each week in September.
As always these posts get added to each year as we go through the cycle of the curriculum again.
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You can find out more information about the curriculum here but you don’t need to follow the curriculum to utilise these resources. Here are some of the basic bits of equipment and resources we use for the curriculum as a starting point.

This post will get added to through the month of October. Latest update 25th September 2025.

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Exploring Nature with Children October Blog Post Contents

Exploring Nature with Children Autumn Leaves Week

This week starts at the end of September this year and you can check out the resources for this week here.

Exploring Nature with Children Harvest Moon Week

In 2025, the Harvest Moon falls on October 6 (rising into full at about 23:47 EDT), making it the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox. This year, it is also a supermoon – appearing slightly larger and brighter due to its proximity to Earth.

Starbird book flatlay with the Usborne Book of the Moon, four wooden stars to the left of the book. A hand stained moon wooden disc with white rocks and desert rose rock, to the right are the numbers 1 to 5 using SumBlox blocks. Flockmen (small wooden people) painted as two aliens and an astronaut with blue and yellow rainbow blocks to form a rocket.

This is a great little printable for showing the phases of the moon as a free download. If you haven’t already tried the cookie moon phases activity below it’s always a winner. Oreos work well but we use a free from alternative.

Man on the Moon Story Sack

Check out this post for exploring the book The Man on the Moon and other great moon books.

Exploring Nature with Children Autumn Pond Study Week

Floss loves learning about ducks and she always loves to know the specific names of fauna. For example she doesn’t want to just call something a bird or a duck she wants to be able to say goldfinch or mallard. We’ve realised that we don’t know as much about the different types of ducks so that’s something we’re going to explore this week.

A wooden duck toy set surrounds a printed 'Duck Detective' identification sheet featuring images of various duck species, displayed on a wooden table.

Wildlife Watch have this free duck download that we plan to use to help us identify. Talking of finches – not pond related – but you might like this free finch ID sheet.

Each year we love to build on our nature exploring from the year before. Nature journaling is one way we love to dive deeper into nature together.

A workspace featuring open sketchbooks, printed photos of ducks and a scenic river, alongside colored pencils and drawing materials, suggesting an activity related to nature study.

Free Pond Spotter Printables – Flora and Fauna

Here’s a couple of our free pond life spotter downloads below.

Daisy and Jack’s Perfect Pond by Rachel Lawston and Beatriz Castro Book

Children's book 'Daisy and Jack's Perfect Pond' by Rachel Lawston and Beatriz Castro displayed alongside a wooden pond playset with toy frogs, fish, and a colorful rainbow stacking toy in the background.

We love this nature series of books by Rachel Lawston and Beatriz Castro. They are wonderful picture books for nature lovers teeming with facts. You can read my review and see inside images of Daisy and Jack’s Perfect Pond here.

Autumn Pond Nature Workshop for Twinkl

We’ve been really enjoying some of the Twinkl Home Education Workshops on YouTube. Check out the Autumn Pond one below.

Other Wildlife Watch Resources Perfect for ENWC Autumn Pond Week

Mindfulness with Cosmic Yoga – Be the Pond

We quite like to take our topic and utilise it in other areas. Cosmic Yoga do some great yoga and mindfulness videos.

Raising Little Shoots Autumn Pond Week Blog Post

Here’s Raising Little Shoot’s blog post for Autumn Pond week.

Exploring Nature with Children The Autumn Tree Study Week

For exploring nature with children Autumn Tree Study week don’t forget to head back to resources for the first week of October – Autumn Leaf week. Lots of the resources we use over both weeks for our learning.

Autumn Tree Week ENWC Printable

The printable below matches with the leaves printable above so you could match tree to leaves. Head out and about and take a photo of these trees in Autumn. How do they differ from the images?

Autumn Trees Nature Home Education Workshop for Twinkl

Below you’ll find the Twinkl Home Education Workshop on Autumn Trees. It’s just under 9 minutes long.

Grow Your Own Oak Tree

Wildlife Watch have a grow your own oak tree instruction sheet free download here.

Exploring Nature with Children Pumpkin Week

A decorative display featuring various sizes of orange and yellow pumpkins arranged in a wooden bowl, with a colorful rainbow arch in the background.

ENWC Pumpkin Blog Post

We adore the pumpkin week of the exploring nature with children curriculum. I’ve updated the blog post I wrote back in 2019 with how we enjoyed learning at home for this week. You’ll find various arts, crafts, printables and books to help you explore this week. As we’ve been exploring this curriculum for a number of years now there are activities suitable for children from 2-8 years+.

Exploring Nature with Children Pumpkin Week

Pomme and the Pumpkins Book

A stunningly illustrated book by Admar Kwant that depicts the life cycle of a pumpkin in the most delightful way through a beautiful story. Find out more and discover inside images in my blog post here.

New Free Pumpkin & Squash Learning Download

Included with this download is a list of ways that you can use this resources to support phonics, English, maths including data handling and other learning objectives.