Egg Carton Nature Walk
originally posted on Ami's blog

One of the suggestions in the FIAR manual for Salamander Room is to go on a nature scavenger hunt. One of the moms in my co-op, gave us this suggestion (as a variation) on Monday, so we decided to try it.

Elijah painted a paper egg carton various colors. We left two without colors so that he could put whatever he wanted in those. As we went nature hunting, Elijah found items of each color to put in the appropriate spot of his egg carton. He was overjoyed! He thought this was the best thing ever, and we plan to use the carton again (and again...and again!). We learned that there aren't very many blue things in nature (we didn't find one), and Elijah said he wished he could grab a bit of sky to put in there.