Exploration kit ready to use!
We slip a lightweight backpack onto our shoulders before leaving home. The walks of the OltreLario explorers begin like this: with a little curiosity, a pinch of patience, and the "Flora in Tasca!" passport in our hands.
Before setting off, pause for a moment. Open your backpack and prepare your little explorer's kit.
Take your passport and add a pencil and some colored crayons. Put a magnifying glass in your backpack because even the smallest things deserve attention. A flower that seems simple suddenly becomes full of details: tiny lines in the petals, grains of pollen, repeating symmetrical shapes. Children discover them immediately. Add a ruler to measure your findings: how tall is the stem of that flower? How long are the petals? The measurements can be written next to the drawing, in the margins of the page, as explorers do in their travel journals.
You can also make a small cardboard frame to frame your treasures to draw. Draw everything that interests you and see: other flowers, stones, insects. You can also do this in the margins of your passport: fill the pages with information, anecdotes, and little drawings. You can also create a code legend for the colors of the flowers you encounter: noting how many times you found that flower in your research and whether you found it in different colors or in different shades of the same color. There is the very light yellow that almost looks like light, the warm yellow that resembles wheat, and the intense yellow that makes you think of newborn chicks. Noting these differences becomes almost a game, a little investigation of the world.
Over time, you realize that every outing is different from the last.
Sometimes you find the same flower you saw a few days earlier, but it looks different. Maybethe time of day isdifferent , or the sunlight falls on the petals in a new way. Noting these small changes is one of the most beautiful ways to realize that nature is never static.
During research, something else often happens: you become aware of sounds. These details can also find a place in the passport, because they recount the moment when that discovery was made.
At home, if your curiosity continues, on the OltreLario blog
There are many new things to discover: the dialect names of flowers, their scientific names, their habits, and the places where they grow most easily.
To be OltreLario Explorers, keep your eyes wide open and ask questions about what you see. Nature offers many sensations: look, listen, smell (what does its scent remind you of?), touch.
Give yourself the opportunity to explore the world's environments: meadows, pastures, forests, etc. Happy searching!
If you would like to share your discoveries, you can do so on Instagram using the hashtag #floraintasca. If, on the other hand, you prefer to keep these moments just for yourself, your family, and nature, we completely understand. In that case, if you wish, you can tell us about your experience by leaving a review here:
https://www.oltrelario.it/recensioni/
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