Yep, we’re still as busy as beavers around here!  I thought I’d stop in for a few minutes to show you some of the fun from our Creation Club this month…..

We met at the local cemetery.  Cemeteries are wonderful for nature study!  Typically, they have a huge variety of trees, shrubs, fungi, weathering and even critters to be found.  With tweezers and baggies in hand, the kids’ first job was to go on a Tweezer Trek.  Basically, they were asked to collect anything and everything nature related that they could pick up with tweezers.  We had a show-n-tell time and studied a few things under the magnifying glasses.

The next activity was to dissect flowers.  Thanks to a couple local nurseries, we had an abundance of flowers to use.  Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Botany has a wonderful flower dissection tutorial that we went through.  Before digging in, though, we read The Reason For a Flower and labeled a flower diagram.  As you can see, our little botanists were very serious about their dissection and recording what they had found.

Here are a few great sites to go along with flower dissection…

Virtual Flower Dissection

Color Photos of Flower Parts

Flower Dissection Lab Activity