Create a Nature Notebook

Are you a nature explorer? Create a Nature Notebook, try different nature challenges and add them to your notebook. What will you discover about the world around you?

Download the guide to create your own notebook, and add what you notice about plants, animals, insects and the environment around you.

Nature is all around us, whether you live in a busy city, or somewhere more rural.

Follow the Horniman on Pinterest or Instagram to see other Nature Challenges to add to your notebook.

Laid on a surface, glue stick, elastic band, string, card, folded into a rectangle, coloured pencils, a downloaded nature notebook worksheet and a completed notebook stood up
The materials you will need, and a finished notebook.
An image divided into four tiles with card being folded and cut in one, string attached in two, tied in three and a cover glued on in four
Top Left: Then fold each long strip over and trim the corners at the folded end. Top right: Wrap an elastic band around the fold twice. Bottom left: 3. Tie your string around the elastic band. Bottom right: Cut up the Nature Challenge worksheet. Stick the front page onto your book. Stick the other pages anywhere inside.
Two images side by side: the left is a close up of a yellow pencil colouring in text, the right is of a completed nature notebook
Left: Colour in the front page. Right: a finished notebook, ready for entries.