If you’re reading this site, it’s probably because you have at least a fleeting interest in nature. Yet wild flowers are not just disappearing from our countryside; they’re also vanishing from children’s lives and their language. The Oxford Junior Dictionary has been cutting out the names of common plants over the past few years, because children just don’t encounter or know bluebells and other wild plants any more.
We want to change this in 2018. Wild flowers are fascinating and magical, and children deserve to have their lives and understanding of the world enriched by meeting them.
So if you want to teach the children in your life about the magic of wild flowers, please join in with the #HerbologyHunt, the junior section of #wildflowerhour.
Every month, we will be releasing a new spotter sheet of five wild flowers for children to find, and descriptions of what they look like. We will also be releasing lesson plans and having various junior challenges.
To share your finds, or those of your children – just post them on Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #herbologyhunt or in our new Facebook group.
And here is the spotter sheet for January. Happy hunting!
(Click on the image to download the sheet)
from #wildflowerhour http://www.wildflowerhour.co.uk/blog/2018/01/01/introducing-herbologyhunt/
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