Making a Bestiary
Explorers of long ago made bestiaries, or books with drawings and descriptions of the strange new creatures they encountered in their voyages. You and your children can pretend you are explorers and make bestiaries of your own. For your bestiary, you can use an old notebook or diary that still has blank pages, or you can make and bind your own book . You can make your bestiary about real animals. Perhaps you have done the other nature observing activities featured in this blog, like bird watching or observing indoor wildlife , and you would like to make a bestiary as a way to record your observations. You can fill your bestiary with your observations -- in words and in drawings of how various animals look like and behave. Or you might want to fill your bestiary with animals of your own imagination, like what Matthew Mehan did in his book entitled Mr. Mehan's Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals . Ask yourself what your imagin...