(**This is an edited post. It was originally
Autumn Treasures part 3 but I wanted to make it mainly about the mushroom study so I renamed it and moved the pictures to
Autumn Treasures part 2 and I'm adding more of our mushroom study here.)
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Emma in front of our Maple tree.
You can see the leaves are starting to change. |
Emma and I went out alone today on a mushroom hunt in the woods. I have been reading the
Handbook of Nature Study blog. I've had the
Handbook of Nature Study for many years but unfortunately it has mostly spent its entire life on the shelf. I hope to remedy that! Anyway, I knew we had a lot of mushrooms in the woods from previous nature walks so we went out and looked at all the different ones we could find, took pictures then later went back and collected a few samples to try to
make spore prints. (This is the original
mushroom post that inspired me.)
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mushrooms growing in our front yard |
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more mushrooms in the front yard |
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a frog (it's on the tire) |
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a mushroom |
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bracket fungi |
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blurry but it's a small orange mushroom |
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Emma wanted this picture to show how tall the fern was |
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a fuzzy underside of a mushroom we found that was upside down |
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Emma |
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an abandoned paper wasp nest |
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this fungi looks like sea shells...it was growing on a fallen dead tree |
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I like this one. A red mushroom. |
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classic looking mushroom...cute |
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tiny mushrooms growing on a dead tree |
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a bright yellow mushroom |
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orange and yellow fungi |
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tiny mushrooms |
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making spore prints |
In the morning this is what we found:
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ewww...what is THAT growing on there?
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I thought this was so cool. Two really great spore prints |
**Update added September 29
This afternoon we read some more about mushrooms in our Handbook of Nature Study while painting mushrooms in 2 ways. First paintings "of" mushrooms on water color paper. Then, painting of actual mushrooms. We attempted to paint the gills and stamp them without much success (wrong kind of paint I think) but I think it was a very useful exercise because they spent a lot of time just exploring the mushrooms.
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Emma and Jenna observing before painting |
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This was a double mushroom with buttons attached on the bottom. |
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Our handbook |
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Connor painting a mushroom |
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Emma's green mushroom (she painted it green) |
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The clouds and sky today...so beautiful. |
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Emma's (7) drawings of mushrooms with labels |
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Emma's drawings on a different page. |
We used this notebook page mentioned in this
blog post about mushroom study.
2 comments:
That is a lot of mushroom study! I love the spore prints and the mushroom painting...so creative. Thank you for sharing your study and all your photos.
Thank you Barb. It was so nice of you to come by and leave a comment! I love your blogs!
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