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Everything You Need for a Nature Explorer Week Play Shelf: 3 & 4 Year-Old Toy Rotation & Activities! 🔍🐞🐦⬛
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items As the seasons change, it’s the perfect time for a Nature Explorer week! This weekly themed toy rotation play shelf encourages your little to get connected with the natural world around them! Learn all about bugs, birds, and gardens with this theme’s...
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Books 📚
Toys 🧸
Books 📚
This is such a fun and cozy story encouraging your little to embrace their beautiful differences. For added fun, read in a cozy setting with dim lighting 💡
Firenze's Light: A Firefly Book on Gratitude
I love this because it’s easy to read, fun facts, and real images! We have had this story for years🐞
National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Bugs
This is a fun informational book all about the garden. It tackles a variety of concepts and can easily pair with a planting or produce picking weekend activity 🪴
Hello, World! Garden Time: Plants Book
This one is a great on theme book that emphasizes counting & bird watching! The best learning happens during play 🪺
Birding for Babies: Backyard Birds: A Numbers Book
Scratch and sniff! Fun bonus: try building a real life picnic using some of the foods in the story 🧺
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Garden Picnic
This is a MUST HAVE for bug week! This story is fun and silly, but also educates your child on this bug’s life cycle. The story starts in summer and ends right before fall making this the perfect addition for this time of year 💛
My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis (A Nature Diary)
This one is special because it’s from a local artist, and has a matching stuffy! We love local whenever we can as it creates an even more special experience!
Little Birdie Buddies of Minnesota by Boschke
Toys 🧸
Perfect addition for a nature week! As a mom who never thought to buy okay food, I’m glad I gave in because it allows room for more silly and creative play!
DUKTIG 14-piece vegetables set
It wouldn’t be Nature Explorer week without a big catching kit! While we haven’t actually caught any bugs, we do love going on nature walks to observe the bugs up close 🪲
Bug Catchers For Kids
Perfect for more than big week! Use for bugs, bird watching, Dino, zoo and more!
Educational Insights GeoSafari Kidnoculars
These are great to add some learning to your shelf! These also pair great with the bug catching kit and Bugs book for extra layered learning
MEROCO Montessori Insects Bugs Matching
Don’t skip out on the Tonies originals!! I wanted to not like it but I love it and so does my little. Great story, original songs, and introduction to different bugs! 🐝
Tonies Favorite Children's Songs: Bugs!
If you’re new to me, or not, you’ll notice a toniebox is on EVERY list! That’s because learning can be subtle, can be through books, play, or audio songs & stories. I can’t say enough about the additional benefit we have had through tonies and th...
tonies: Toniebox 2
While you can opt for just getting play flowers, the Helper Playkit is great and grows with your kiddo! This is the exact kid some of our materials are from 💐
The Helper Play Kit
While this kit came when my son was one, many of the times have definitely grown with us!
The Adventurer Play Kit | Toys for 1-Year Olds